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Things turned around for the Devils a little faster than most people thought. As general manager Ray Shero orchestrates a rebuilding process, the young team broke a five-year playoff drought last season before getting blown out in a five-game, first-round series by the powerhouse Lightning. They also got a MVP season from Taylor Hall, the […]

Click:check balance my gift card The Islanders are going to do what they can to forget about John Tavares, but the gaping hole left by the departed captain is too big to ignore. After a long, drawn-out and mismanaged process, Tavares left the Isles to sign a free-agent deal with his hometown Maple Leafs this […]

This will be a two-track season for the organization, one in which the Rangers will more likely than not take the local to the bitter end of 2018-19, and the other in which kids spread across the globe will attempt to get on the fast track to Broadway. Progress will be measured more by the […]

Brett Howden made the team and then changed his number. One of the slight surprises of the Rangers training camp was the 20-year-old Howden cracking the opening night roster, and soon thereafter he switched from No. 48 to No. 21. It was his number all during his junior days, and now he gets to wear […]

The NHL is about levels, but it is about windows, too. Windows that are closing. Except the window that was supposed to be closed last year opened for the Capitals before Barry Trotz made like Johnny Keane and walked out the door with the championship belt wrapped around his waist. Keane faded into ignominy in […]

A year ago, Kevin Shattenkirk was playing through a knee injury just so he could make the opening night start in his first season with his hometown Rangers. It turned out to be a bad idea, the beginning of a hugely disappointing season both for the New Rochelle native and the Blueshirts. In the interim, […]

MSG Network is turning to a pair of familiar faces to replace Ron Duguay. Duguay had been a mainstay of Rangers’ pre- and postgame coverage the past 12 years — doing around 40-45 games a season — but he and MSG announced last week that they’d be parting ways. MSG will use a combination of […]

It seems like just about everything is new except the logo. The Rangers will open the 2018-19 season on Thursday night at the Garden against the Predators with an unfamiliar coach, some unfamiliar alternate captains, a lot of unfamiliar players — and especially, unfamiliar expectations. This team is not supposed to be a shoo-in for […]

Of course Brian Leetch knows how much the 1994 Stanley Cup-winning Rangers mean to fans of a certain age. He knows because he is told about it all the time. The Hall of Fame defenseman, and Conn Smythe winner for that team, will reunite with the majority of his former mates for a 25th anniversary […]

So here we go. When the Rangers take the ice for Thursday’s season opener at the Garden, they’ll see a powerful Predators team that has been on the cusp of winning the Cup for a few years now, and from which nothing less than a championship will be deemed acceptable. In other words, the Way […]