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It was pure joy mixed with a dash of pettiness. The Capitals celebrated their Stanley Cup victory before destroying the Bruins 7-0 on the NHL’s season-opening night Wednesday. The 4-minute-plus video showed plenty of scenes from Washington’s shocking Stanley Cup run, the franchise’s first championship in its 44-year history. However, it did not include the […]

MSG Network Rangers studio analyst and former goalie Steve Valiquette talks with The Post’s Justin Terranova about a different kind of Rangers season, his experience with Henrik Lundqvist and how he’ll approach analyzing a young team. Q: How has this Rangers’ rebuild gone since it began? A: (GM) Jeff Gorton has gotten a maximum load […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — The New York Islanders don’t have John Tavares anymore. They still have playmakers. Reigning rookie of the year Mathew Barzal set up Josh Bailey’s power-play winner 43 seconds into overtime, and the Islanders began their post-Tavares era by beating the Carolina Hurricanes 2-1 on Thursday night. “That whole power play has been […]

The Rangers don’t want to be satisfied with moral victories in this season of rebuilding, and that includes hanging with one of the best teams in the league and eventually having their decent effort undercut by a bad non-call from a mostly negligent officiating staff. So they did not walk away all smiles and consolation […]

The last time the Rangers had a head coach making his NHL debut, they won for Bryan Trottier in Carolina to kick off the 2002-03 season. That was not a harbinger of things to come, the coach gone after a 21-26-6-1, 54-game misadventure. Which is to suggest that not all that much should be read […]

David Quinn went from excited to crestfallen in a matter of hours. That’s what a disappointing loss in your NHL debut as head coach of the Rangers can do. Quinn hardly could suppress his enthusiasm leading up to Thursday night’s Garden match against the Predators, but when the season opener ended in a 3-2 defeat, […]

Welcome back for another season of The Backcheck, where apparently we have walked into an alternate NHL reality where Tom Wilson is actually handed a lengthy suspension for doing something completely in line with his regular, buffoonish behavior. For all the bad things we — and everyone else — have said over the years about […]

Click:Glass candle container The message coming from David Quinn’s Rangers is loud and clear — they may not be the most talented team in the league, but they are going to bring the effort every night. If not, accountability is the first priority. “That’s what [the media] and the fans are going to notice, the […]

Devils forward Jesper Bratt will miss the start of the season because of a broken jaw. The 20-year-old Swede was hit in the face by a puck that was shot from the point and deflected off the crossbar during a practice Thursday in Gothenburg, Sweden. The team said Friday he’ll be out a few weeks […]

The first goaltender decision of the season, and first-year Rangers coach David Quinn is deciding to split this weekend’s back-to-back between starter Henrik Lundqvist and young backup Alexandar Georgiev. Lundqvist, who was strong in the season-opening 3-2 loss to the Predators on Thursday night at the Garden, is going to get Saturday night’s game in […]