Category: puck

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Rangers have been here before, with a backup goalie excelling under the stewardship of position coach Benoit Allaire and nowhere for the netminder to go besides out. And each time, the Blueshirts have taken what they could in return. It is a little different now with Alexandar Georgiev, the affable Bulgarian […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — Rest assured, if it had been May, Brady Skjei would have been able to play. But it is mid-February of what is shaping up to be a playoff-less season, so in conjunction with trainer Jim Ramsay, it was decided the Rangers defenseman was better off sitting out Sunday’s 6-5 loss in Pittsburgh […]

There goes the Devils’ modest winning streak. Bryan Rust scored a tiebreaking goal midway through the second period and the Penguins continued their playoff push and avoided the embarrassment of being swept by the lowly Devils with a 4-3 victory on Tuesday night at Prudential Center in Newark, despite the fact the character David Puddy […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — The New York Party Poopers. The Rangers spoiled all the Hurricanes’ fun, disallowing another silly home-ice victory celebration, which had become the talk of the league. Instead, the visiting Blueshirts were backstopped by a 43-save performance from Henrik Lundqvist and took a 2-1 victory Tuesday night, skating off the ice without incident. […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — This is the brutal irony of the situation, a product of the structure the NHL has set up. Of course Tony DeAngelo didn’t want to seriously injure Kyle Okposo, but under league rules, he was allowed to punch him in the face. And that punch on Friday night in Buffalo, the one […]

Artemi Panarin pooped himself. The Columbus Blue Jackets star — and the NHL’s hottest trade candidate— was mysteriously scratched from Tuesday’s 3-2 loss against the Canadiens due to an undisclosed “illness.” Sports maladies near trade deadlines sometimes are coded words to keep the players safe from injury, which would make sense in this case. But […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Rangers and Neal Pionk both felt lucky the defenseman wasn’t more seriously injured on Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh, when he took a stick to the right eye from Sidney Crosby. That gratitude carried over when Pionk was able to take part in Tuesday’s morning skate, and that it was only for […]

The contract talks, not surprisingly, have gone nowhere. Hence, Mats Zuccarello and Kevin Hayes will be going somewhere by Monday. Until they do, they have played their last games. Or at least, that’s the call management should make prior to Thursday’s match at the Garden against the free-falling Wild. It wasn’t necessarily the money, but […]

CALGARY, Alberta — The Islanders tied it up in the third period, but Austin Czarnik and Johnny Gaudreau goals 29 seconds apart in the third period to lead the Flames to a 4-2 win over the Islanders in a battle of first-place teams on Wednesday night. Mikael Backlund and former Islander Travis Hamonic also scored […]

Hopefully this guy has a comfortable couch or isn’t looking for another date. A man caught a flying puck at Wednesday night’s Avalanche-Jets game — and in doing so, he elbowed the woman he was with. Then, he gave the puck to a different woman in front of him. The lady he was with didn’t […]