Category: puck

Olympic gold medalist Kendall Coyne Schofield got a taste of sexism in the NHL booth Wednesday night. During NBC’s “Wednesday Night Hockey” broadcast between the Lightning and Penguins, Schofield, who worked as an analyst for the game, stood squished next to Pierre McGuire, when her male counterpart made things quickly cringe-worthy and uncomfortable by mansplaining […]

Marc Staal is one of the two current Rangers to have played for all four of the club’s coaches in the hard-cap era that commenced in 2005-06. Henrik Lundqvist was on Broadway first, of course, a rookie that season. Staal arrived two years later and has joined forces with the King playing for Tom Renney, […]

No, there was no guarantee. And this was hardly Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals 25 years ago. But Mika Zibanejad did his best Mark Messier impersonation, completing the first hat trick for a Ranger in New Jersey since the captain’s epic 1994 playoff performance, this one resulting in a mid-winter 4-3 victory over […]

First David Quinn benched him, then he rewarded him. The Rangers coach brought Pavel Buchnevich back into the lineup for Thursday night’s 4-3 win over the Devils in Newark just two days after he had made the talented 23-year-old winger a healthy scratch in a 1-0 loss to the Flyers at the Garden. Buchnevich started […]

So another teaching moment for another young Ranger denied a uniform for a divisional rivalry game. Say what you will about David Quinn, but this is a coach who addresses issues on the spot rather than sloughing them off for a later day. Two nights after Pavel Buchnevich sat against the Flyers, Tony DeAngelo was […]

It is officially February, the best month of the regular season for the NHL. Most of the time. Despite a couple of dud trade deadlines over the past few years, the league is primed for a great one coming on Feb. 25. And it all goes through Columbus. That is where two of the biggest […]

Derick Brassard is on the move again. The Penguins sent the center to the Panthers along with forward Riley Sheahan in exchange for forward Nick Bjugstad and Jared McCann on Friday. For Brassard, the trade means suiting up for his fifth NHL team over his 12-year NHL career. The former sixth-overall pick in the 2006 […]

The Lightning and their high-flying offense hadn’t been shut out all season. The Islanders blanked them for 65 minutes, but it still wasn’t enough. Victor Hedman scored the only goal in shootout Friday night to lift Tampa Bay past the Isles 1-0 after both goaltenders put on a spectacular display in regulation and overtime. Hedman […]

It’s easy to see right away that Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider are both good friends with Mats Zuccarello. But the Rangers’ red-hot top line likely won’t be intact much longer, because Zuccarello seems destined to be shipped out before the Feb. 25 trade deadline. It’s a topic that is uncomfortable, but unavoidable — especially […]

MONTREAL — Nico Hischier wore the alternate captain’s “A” on his jersey for the first time in his career. The 20-year-old Swiss star has fast become a leader for the New Jersey Devils. Hischier scored at 1:56 of overtime after tying it midway through the third period in the Devils’ 3-2 victory over the Montreal […]