Author: DposNews

There was nothing about Monday’s breakup day press conference that gave the impression anything in or around the Islanders is changing. It was the same defeated rhetoric that has been spewed year after disappointing year. As much as Jon Ledecky said that his ownership group “failed” the fan base, and as much as Ledecky tossed […]

Isaac Labelle and his family went through “hell,” and escaped two days later, upon learning that his brother, Xavier, was misidentified as one of the victims in the tragic Humboldt youth hockey club bus crash. Teammate Parker Tobin was mistaken for Labelle and incorrectly listed as a survivor. “All I can say is miracles do […]

The Rangers essentially held a two-month breakup day, where players had to reflect and explain away a disappointing season and rationalize management’s decision to begin rebuilding. By the time the actual breakup day rolled around Tuesday, the emotion had been drained into a cold, calculated outlook. And still, it was hard not to notice just […]

Goalies play through injuries, too. That was the reminder from Henrik Lundqvist on Rangers breakup day Tuesday, when the franchise netminder revealed he had been playing through a knee injury suffered in late-October that was managed for the rest of the regular season. “From the start of the season, it was fine. It felt good. […]

We know now that a successful regular-season team can be built on the backs of everyone else’s third- and fourth-liners and fourth, fifth and sixth defensemen. That’s what we saw in Vegas, where overlooked and/or undervalued assets such as William Karlsson and Erik Haula turned into desert dessert dishes. Now the lab experiment continues in […]

Regarding the Rangers, I am reminded of Joe Namath’s tale of his first meeting with Bear Bryant. As a high-school recruit, Joe Willie has related many times, he was invited to ascend the tower from which the fabled Alabama coach oversaw practice. The quarterback admitted he could barely understand Bryant through the coach’s pronounced southern […]

The Rangers are not, cannot, and should not be in a rush to fill their head coach vacancy. Firstly, they are not in a rush because they are still digesting this season, the first missed postseason in seven years. It was a successful five-year run for Alain Vigneault, but the organization has decided on moving […]

On the eve of the Devils first playoff game in close to six years, there was one message above all to this young club. “It’s going to be fun, that’s all,” veteran Brian Boyle said after Wednesday’s practice in Newark, one that was attended by a few hundred fans who cheered the Devils on as […]

The firing of Alain Vigneault changed a lot of things for the Rangers, and it left a handful of players in an ideological gray area concerning their roles going forward. That would mostly be the large group of restricted free agents, starting with the three roommates — Jimmy Vesey, Kevin Hayes and Brady Skjei — […]

TAMPA, Fla. — The Devils just got a lesson why the Lightning are the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Captain Steven Stamkos and high-scoring Nikita Kucherov garner lots of attention. However, the Tampa Bay is hardly a two-man show. The top seed got early goals from four players — none of them named Stamkos […]