Author: DposNews

It will be nine games out and 16 to go until the trade deadline when Kevin Hayes returns to the Rangers lineup following the club’s mandated off-week that commences following Saturday night’s match in Boston. For the organization has reached the common-sense decision to hold out No. 13 from the match against the Bruins once […]

The wife of retired Rangers legend Brian Leetch and her sister are hoping to score a plea deal after they allegedly started a brawl at a Manhattan bar and injured three people, their lawyers said Thursday. Mary Beth Leetch, 49, and her little sister Tracy Murphy, 44, were both relaxed in Manhattan Criminal Court during […]

By his own admission, Barry Trotz is an emotional man. “I’m a softie when it comes to – I’ll cry during watching ‘The Notebook’ on TV when it’s on,” the Islanders coach said. But he believes he will be able to keep those emotions in check Friday night when he returns to Washington and Capital […]

It did not result in any goals, but what the Islanders did to the Devils in the middle of the second period Thursday night — while already holding a three-score lead — was an imposing of their will. For a prolonged stretch, the Islanders suffocated the Devils with chances in their own end. Just when […]

It’s kind of just the way it has gone, and the way it will continue to go for these Rangers — up and down, with the occasional crest and the occasional crash. Yet there is some stability back in their world with a second straight win, the latest a 4-3 victory over the Blackhawks on […]

Lou Lamoriello was sitting in a small room that first night back at the Nassau Coliseum on Dec. 1, just before the Islanders welcomed themselves and the Blue Jackets back to Long Island. Lamoriello is not often given to schmaltz or sentiment, but he couldn’t help himself as the booming noise from the arena bled […]

Henrik Lundqvist knows the legend of Terry Sawchuk. Of course he does. Sawchuk is the goaltender with whom the Swede is now tied for sixth on NHL all-time victory list at 445 following Thursday’s 4-3 Garden victory over the Blackhawks. But until told recently, Lundqvist had not known that Sawchuk finished his career as a […]

Filip Chytil seems on the verge of another hot streak. The Rangers’ 19-year-old forward picked up his second goal and fourth point in the past five games during the team’s 4-3 win over the Blackhawks on Thursday night at the Garden. Chytil has eight goals and 17 points in 45 games, with his points coming […]

BOSTON — It’s hard to exactly feel bad for the Islanders, as their situation is a making of their own past. So even with the fact that they are back on stable ground, from the top of ownership to the bottom of the on-ice product, the shockwave from decades of business failure still has not […]

The list of requests would have likely been long, but David Quinn claims he is out of the ticket business. So all the family and friends wishing to see him behind the bench as an NHL head coach for the first time in Boston Saturday night can find their own way into TD Garden. “They […]