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They are young, but the Rangers don’t believe that precludes them from winning right now. The youth was served on Monday, when it was a 19-year-old and a 20-year-old lifting them to victory for the sixth time in seven games. After Filip Chytil tied the game with his first goal of the season in the […]

TORONTO — For most of the weekend, Martin Brodeur acted how he played the game — cool, calm, and collected. When it came to a speech as the Devils’ franchise goalie was recognized as a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, not so much. Brodeur’s poise is part of what made him arguably the […]

TORONTO — First were the thank-yous, then the anecdotes, then the humble appreciation of the moment. But there was also a message delivered by The Post’s Larry Brooks as he received the Elmer Ferguson Award and was enshrined into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday afternoon. “I think that the mainstream media, the mainstream […]

Filip Chytil had skated for 201 minutes and nine seconds this season before finally getting to exhale. Once the Rangers’ 19-year-old pounced on a rebound Monday night and made sure his 25th shot of the season would be the first one that found the back of the net, Chytil was free to play his game, […]

Henrik Lundqvist has seen more hockey than any of his teammates in the New York Rangers locker room. The goalie is wise enough to know that the up-and-coming Rangers (9-7-2), who have won six of seven and entered Tuesday’s off day in second place in the Metropolitan Division, have a long way to go. They […]

Coming off three straight losses, the Islanders fell behind early. They took the lead with two quick goals and then pulled away in the third period for a confidence-building win. Tom Kuhnhackl scored two unusual goals to lead the Islanders to a 5-2 victory over the Canucks on Tuesday night at Barclays Center. “We definitely […]

Taylor Hall gave the Devils just what they needed after a dismal seven-game trip — an MVP-type performance. Hall scored the game-winning goal on a breakaway at 8:07 of the third period added an empty-net tally to cap a four-point night and lead the Devils to a 4-2 victory over the struggling Pittsburgh Penguins on […]

Mats Zuccarello’s return to the fray brought a new wrinkle to the Rangers’ line combinations as the team prepared for Thursday night’s match in Brooklyn against the Islanders. No. 36 resumed his role as Mika Zibanejad’s right wing but notably was joined on the other flank by Filip Chytil, while Vlad Namestnikov worked on the […]

Practice — we’d define it as a “hard work” practice, but that would be redundant — ended, and David Quinn called his team to center ice. “How many games have you won at Barclays Center?” the coach asked the Rangers players gathered around him. Mats Zuccarello, good to go after missing the past three games […]

The season had ended two days earlier, the coach had been fired and the Rangers were in ruins as they went through their appointed rounds on breakup day at the training facility. The team, which had climbed to within three victories of the mountaintop in 2014 and had been among the league’s upper echelon for […]