Category: puck

The Islanders are skating with the big boys now, having entered the weekend in first place in the Metropolitan Division, two points ahead of coach Barry Trotz’s former team, the defending Stanley Cup champion Capitals, with one game in hand. This was not the time and Barclays Center was not the place for a clunker […]

One member of the 1993-94 Rangers was sadly missed at the team’s 25th anniversary celebration of the franchise’s most recent Stanley Cup championship. Alexander Karpovtsev, a rookie and one of four Russian players on that historic Blueshirts squad, was among those killed in the plane crash in Russia that claimed most of the Kontinental Hockey […]

Stephane Matteau thought it was time to reveal what truly was the biggest goal of his life. More than 17 years after his last drink in 2001, Matteau went public with his struggles with depression and alcohol Friday, first in a published report and later in a conversation with The Post ahead of the Rangers’ […]

Former Devil Zach Parise scored the go-ahead goal, and the Wild snapped a four-game losing streak and gave coach Bruce Boudreau something to smile about in his 900th NHL game with a 4-2 victory over the Devils at Prudential Center on Saturday. The third line of Marcus Foligno, Joel Eriksson Ek and Luke Kunin all […]

As the Rangers’ front office prepares to wheel and deal before the Feb. 25 trade deadline it doesn’t have to look too far to be reminded of one move that is paying high dividends. That would be the swap that sent Derick Brassard to Ottawa in a deal that brought back Mika Zibanejad in the […]

Islanders coach Barry Trotz declined to say in his pregame comments Saturday which of his two goaltenders would be starting a few hours later against the Avalanche. It was Robin Lehner, with Thomas Greiss backing up. But as it turned out, the biggest save in the Islanders’ 4-3 overtime victory was made by fourth-line left […]

There they go again. The owners, management people, compliant messengers in my business, there they go again throwing around the term “loophole” to define a business practice permissible under the collective bargaining agreement used by wealthy team ownership to sign a player. There they went again, whining when the Maple Leafs’ five-year, $58.17 million second […]

The Islanders were determined to not let this be a back-to-back-breaker. They came out strong, kept up the attack for most of the game, and survived some dicey moments late in a 2-1 victory over the Wild on Sunday at Barclays Center. The result runs the Islanders’ record to 9-0-0 in the second half of […]

Maybe James Neal just wanted a bonus — from the tooth fairy. The Calgary Flames forward showed why hockey players should wear mouthguards on Saturday, when TV cameras captured the exact moment he was hit in the mouth with a stick — and the moment several teeth came flying out. Canucks defenseman Alex Biega tried […]

You could excuse the Rangers if they had flashbacks to Hugh Jessiman, the 12th-overall selection of the 2003 entry draft who tore a left ankle ligament in his second game of his junior season at Dartmouth, never was the same following surgery and never played a game for the Blueshirts. For on Saturday night in […]