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CHICAGO — The opportunity for Tony DeAngelo might be coming sooner rather than later. The Rangers’ righty-shooting defenseman was a healthy scratch Thursday night for the sixth straight game and the eighth time in the team’s first 10 as the Blueshirts lost 4-1 to the Blackhawks at United Center. But another righty-shooting blueliner, Adam McQuaid, […]

CHICAGO — If this were in the news section of the The Post, it might be called “a bombshell.” The 31-page legal document released from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Thursday that upheld the 20-game suspension for Tom Wilson is a brutally damning document for the Players’ Association. It shows the union making utterly outrageous […]

It has become such a common scene over the past few years — Henrik Lundqvist sitting there at his locker after a Rangers loss, his head in his hands, rubbing his face. He then looks up and does everything in his power to be as diplomatic as possible about the team in front of him […]

Kyle Palmieri had a goal and an assist, Keith Kinkaid made 35 saves and the Devils stopped a three-game slide Saturday by topping the Panthers, 3-2, at the Prudential Center in Newark. Taylor Hall and Blake Coleman also scored for the Devils, who won for the first time since opening the season with four consecutive […]

PHILADELPHIA — Brock Nelson scored two goals and Robin Lehner stopped 22 shots Saturday as the Islanders opened a three-game road trip with a 6-1 victory over the Flyers. Leo Komarov and Anthony Beauvillier also scored to help the Islanders take a 3-0 lead through two periods in a game between teams near the bottom […]

LOS ANGELES — Dave Maloney and his band were coming and that meant Peter Stemkowski and his ilk were either going or already out the door. The Rangers’ Era of Excellence Without Winning the Cup I had ended, and the basic difference between the situation four decades ago and now is that Emile Francis didn’t […]

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Adam McQuaid’s misfortune becomes Tony DeAngelo’s opportunity. After sitting out six straight and eight of the first 10 as a healthy scratch, No. 77 will get the call in LA on Sunday in the aftermath of the lower-body injury that forced McQuaid out of the game in Chicago on Thursday. “Day-to-day,” […]

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Rangers have utilized 23 different line combinations to start their first 10 games. Sunday afternoon against the Kings, coach David Quinn will feature combinations 24, 25, 26 and 27. This is not a manifestation of a coach pulling names out of a hat in an attempt to generate offense from […]

LOS ANGELES — Alec Martinez scored with 55 seconds remaining, and the Kings stopped a six-game skid with a 4-3 win over the Rangers on Sunday. Martinez brought the puck from behind the net into the offensive zone and fired a wrist shot through the legs of Brendan Smith and past goaltender Henrik Lundqvist for […]

LOS ANGELES — The Rangers right now are bad at just about everything. That, unfortunately, includes being bad at math. For the third straight game and the fifth time in their first 11 matches, the Blueshirts could not count accurately to six and were assessed yet another too-many-men-on-the-ice minor. There might be an excuse for […]