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The Rangers knew it was coming, but that hardly made it any easier. A fan favorite as much as a team favorite, Mats Zuccarello was traded on Saturday night to the Stars. The inevitable move for the pending unrestricted free agent brought back two conditional draft picks — a second-rounder in 2019, which would become […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — New York Islanders goaltender Robin Lehner is more concerned about points for the standings than personal success. Lehner made 36 saves for his fourth shutout of the season as the Islanders beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 Saturday. Casey Cizikas, Ryan Pulock, Anthony Beauvillier and Cal Clutterbuck scored for the Islanders. “Honestly, […]

WASHINGTON — Henrik Lundqvist was overcome. Seated in his locker-room stall following Sunday afternoon’s 6-5 overtime defeat to the Capitals in a match the Blueshirts had tied at 19:29 of the third after pulling the netminder for an extra attacker, Lundqvist coolly analyzed his deficiencies and praised his team’s gumption. But then came the question […]

Mats Zuccarello’s debut with the Stars started well and ended in misfortune. The former Rangers forward was in the lineup for Dallas on Sunday in Chicago after being traded late Saturday night for two draft picks. The Stars will have to wait a while to see him in uniform again. Zuccarello, who played 13:35 in […]

WASHINGTON — The Rangers might want to consider using one of their excess seventh-round picks (or, heaven forbid, maybe even a sixth) acquiring an enforcer before the deadline. Because while the Blueshirts responded admirably, they were repeatedly crushed by an aggressive Capitals team that had no one to fear with Adam McQuaid sitting it out […]

Some time in the past few days, Rangers general manager Jeff Gorton looked at the gap between what he wanted to give Kevin Hayes in a contract extension and what the pending unrestricted free agent was looking for, and he decided it was too large to bridge. And so Gorton shopped the rising, 26-year-old center […]

This isn’t as much about the return the Rangers got from Winnipeg as it is about Kevin Hayes. Because once you accept the fact management never quite bought into No. 13 as a worthy and dependable enough core piece to award a five- or six-year contract extension at somewhere around $6-6.5 million per, then the […]

The road to rebuilding kept marching forward, as the Rangers dealt defenseman Adam McQuaid to the Blue Jackets just about one hour before Monday’s 3 p.m. deadline, getting fourth- and seventh-round picks in return. McQuaid, 32, was in the final year of a deal that carried an annual salary-cap hit of $2.75 million. The Rangers […]

Hopefully, Derick Brassard didn’t unpack all of his bags yet. The Florida Panthers traded the center to the Colorado Avalanche along with a conditional 2020 sixth-round draft pick for a third-round pick in 2020 at the NHL trade deadline, a few short weeks after acquiring him from the Pittsburgh Penguins. Brassard posted four points in […]

After wading through all of the possibilities, the Rangers came out on the other side of Monday’s trade deadline just about where they thought they would be. That is to say, they continued this rebuild by shipping out the present and focusing on the future. The trio of pending unrestricted free agents are all gone, […]