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T.J. Oshie scored twice, Dmitry Orlov and Nicklas Backstrom each had a goal and two assists, and the Islanders were routed by the first-place Capitals 7-3 Thursday night at Barclays Center. “I’ve been working hard lately, trying to get my game going,” said Oshie, who hadn’t scored since Jan 31, a span of 19 games. […]

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Congratulations to the 2021-22 Blues on a terrific season. In the first year after Owners Lockout III canceled the 2020-21 campaign, and with Gary Bettman’s new “rules of equanimity” in place, the Blues amassed 174 points and finished third in the Central Division. They won 22 of their 90 regular-season games, […]

WASHINGTON — Home or away, the Islanders had no answer for the Capitals. Washington scored 13 goals in two games against the Islanders, and Alex Ovechkin accounted for none of them. T.J. Oshie, Nicklas Backstrom and Matt Niskanen scored as Washington swept a home-and-home set against the skidding Islanders with a 6-3 win on Friday […]

The future is unknown for Ondrej Pavelec, sidelined since Feb. 9 with a left knee injury and unlikely to get a game before the season ends and the 31-year-old impending free-agent netminder hits the open market for the second straight summer. “I don’t know what to expect [from free agency], but it’s not something I […]

Far away from home, Pavel Buchnevich had spent nearly two seasons adjusting to North American life on and away from the rink without a fellow countryman with whom to navigate the transition from Russia. But that has changed within the last few weeks for the 22-year-old winger, recently joined on the Rangers roster by Alexandar […]

Once again, and by design rather than mere happenstance, one of the NHL’s top teams is guaranteed to be knocked out during the first round of the playoffs, while a lesser club is ensured of advancing. What kind of a league is it that perpetuates this manifest injustice? Well, it’s the one that does whatever […]

ST. LOUIS — On three different occasions over the past few weeks, The Post has encountered people inside the NHL who either implied or inquired about the possibility of the Rangers going after superlative defenseman Erik Karlsson, who it seems inevitable will be traded by the Senators before the June 22 draft. As appealing as […]

ST. LOUIS — It’s as if the Rangers go through waves of remembering during games that it’s beneficial to lose before professional pride takes over. After a disastrous first period and a bounce-back second, they managed to sneak out of Scottrade Center with a point after losing 4-3 in overtime to the Blues on Saturday […]

The energy in the Rangers locker room since the Feb. 26 trade deadline passed is vastly different than at any time in the previous five years. There is a youthful enthusiasm and a minimal amount of stoic seriousness that defined the veteran group continually vying for a Stanley Cup. But that change in personality is […]

The most interesting time of the second half of the Rangers’ season is drawing near. That would be when both first-round picks from the most recent draft — center Lias Andersson (No. 7 overall) and Filip Chytil (No. 21) — get to come up and play as many NHL games as possible without burning the […]