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LAS VEGAS — Halfway through the first season of a dramatic and directed reset, there is no turning back for the Rangers. You can take that from CEO Jim Dolan. “The stew has just gotten on the flame, so like everybody else, I’m waiting to see who we’re going to be,” Dolan told two reporters […]

There it was, that word that is so overused it has started to lose meaning. But the most encouraging thing for the Islanders is not just that they’re the hottest team in the league but that the culture around the organization is changing — if not changed for good. “The team, I think they’re believing,” […]

LAS VEGAS — A day after observing that his team had “no legs,” there were the Rangers back on the ice Monday, practicing in advance of Tuesday’s match against the Golden Knights. But this was not a demanding skate punctuated by whistles and sharp commands and corrections from coach David Quinn. Rather, this was a […]

BUFFALO — Jeff Skinner got his 29th goal of the season and the Buffalo Sabres scored five times in the second period on their way to a 5-1 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night. C.J. Smith, Casey Mittelstadt, Jake McCabe and Lawrence Pilut also scored for Buffalo, which improved to 23-14-6. Carter […]

Justin Williams scored late in the third period and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Islanders 4-3 on Tuesday night at the Nassau Coliseum to snap New York’s six-game winning streak. Williams scored his 10th goal of the season 15 seconds after leaving the penalty box to make it 3-2 with 17:18 left. The 37-year-old flipped […]

The waiting game had lasted a few years now, but it has finally come to an end. And after all that, it seems to have been worth it. The Islanders have defenseman Devon Toews up with the big club and playing like the projected top-four blueliner the organization was hoping for before he went down […]

Right now, there is enough on David Quinn’s plate that it doesn’t make a ton of sense for the Rangers coach to start dealing with issues that are not imminent. But soon enough, the “pink elephant,” as he called it, will have to be addressed. That would be the approaching Feb. 25 trade deadline, which […]

The Rangers won’t go so far as to explicitly say it — and probably never will — but it sure seems like we have reached the moral victories phase of this rebuilding season. Sure, they took a step forward. But if it was a step forward to record their fourth loss in a row, a […]

Click:drupal agency Players can’t be too focused on the big picture of a season, and forget them seeing a picture that includes about a decade of the same storyline. But it seems that, at least through the first half of this season, the roles between the big-brother Rangers and the little-brother Islanders have been somewhat […]

If Tony DeAngelo deserved to be in the Rangers lineup every night, he would be. Instead, coach David Quinn is dealing with the mercurial nature of his 23-year-old defenseman, still here in part because of his inability to be sent to AHL Hartford without clearing waivers (which he wouldn’t). At times, DeAngelo has shown the […]