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The Islanders got a look at what it takes to be a playoff team as their second-half slide only worsened. Auston Matthews scored the tiebreaking goal with just under four minutes remaining to lift the playoff-bound Maple Leafs to a 5-4 victory over the Islanders at Barclays Center on Friday night. Mitch Marner and Nazem […]

Mats Zuccarello is torn. The Rangers winger is happy to see some of his best friends in contention to chase a Stanley Cup. He’s just not happy that they’re not still doing it together as teammates. “It hurts sometimes to see that most of the guys are on Stanley Cup contender teams around the league,” […]

The video tribute came before the game, the Rangers giving their due to Ryan McDonagh, Dan Girardi and J.T. Miller, who once were part of deep playoff runs in New York and now will shoot for the Cup in Tampa Bay. The battered fans at the Blueshirts’ Garden finale responded with a resounding ovation. “It […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — From utterly despondent to laughing about an outstanding personal record, it was quite the turnaround in a few days for Henrik Lundqvist. The Rangers franchise netminder continued his assault against the Hurricanes when he made 40 stops and eliminated them from the playoffs with a 2-1 victory Saturday night. Lundqvist is now […]

The Devils’ first playoff berth since 2012 is there for the taking. All they have to do is take it. Taylor Hall scored two goals and the Devils reduced their magic number for clinching a postseason berth to six points with a 4-3 victory over the Islanders on Saturday night at the Prudential Center in […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — This was back on Feb. 1, which now seems like a lifetime ago. Then, the Rangers were in third place in the Metropolitan Division, a position coach Alain Vigneault optimistically described as “a few wins out of second place, so we’re in a good spot.” He was then asked if any outside […]

Goals per game are up to nearly six, with 13 of the league’s 31 teams averaging three or more a night. And though those totals are somewhat inflated by the NHL’s dodgy practice of including shootout winners in the goals-for column, Sixth Avenue has been doing that since the 2005-06 introduction of the skills competition. […]

When the Rangers talk about “pace” concerning their young players, end-to-end skating ability is hardly the whole of it. In the case of 18-year-old Filip Chytil, he already has significantly impressed in that area. Instead, the real “pace” Chytil needs to adjust to is that at which decisions are made. In a scoreless game late […]

Make no mistake about it. Henrik Lundqvist is in for the rebuild, all right, but the goaltender believes there’s only one priority for the Rangers when the club reconvenes for training camp in September. Hint: It doesn’t involve bottoming out. “Next year has to be about winning and nothing else,” the goaltender told The Post […]

The last time, Martin Brodeur was in nets, Zach Parise wore the captain’s “C,” Patrik Elias and Petr Sykora were together again, and Adam Henrique scored an overtime goal of some significance in these parts. In 2011-12, the last time the Devils qualified for the playoffs (on their way to the Stanley Cup finals after […]