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USA Hockey’s decision to make John Vanbiesbrouck one of its most prominent faces and forces by hiring the former Rangers (and Islanders and Devils) goaltender as assistant executive director of hockey operations is, at best, a tone-deaf call and, at worst, a willfully ignorant one. Just over a year ago, the patriarchy faced a boycott […]

The new trend in the NHL is to hire a coach directly from behind the bench in college, and it is largely because the league is getting younger. The Rangers embraced that idea, with a roster chock full of college men who now are going to be led by David Quinn, coming right from being […]

This is Gary Bettman’s world and the rest of us are just living in it. The commissioner is master of his domain, the Stanley Cup final his vision come to life. The NHL has conquered Las Vegas, just as Bettman said it would. There may never have been a better first-year expansion operation and experience […]

This has to be one of the most unlikely matchups in Stanley Cup finals history. The expansion Golden Knights have already had the best inaugural season in any professional sport, while the Capitals and Alex Ovechkin have finally gotten out of the second round with The Great 8 now on the verge of the championship […]

LAS VEGAS — A couple who survived the October shooting at a Las Vegas country music festival has named their newborn after one of the Vegas Golden Knights hockey players, saying the team has brought some positivity into their lives after the tragedy. KLAS-TV reports that Lauren and Brad Sugars’ girl was born May 18, […]

LAS VEGAS — In a single nine-minute stretch of the third period, the Capitals dramatically took the lead before the Vegas Golden Knights replied with two goals of their own. Washington’s Tom Wilson also flattened Vegas forward Jonathan Marchessault with a blindside hit that could reverberate through the Stanley Cup final. After 10 goals and […]

You only get one first Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals. The Vegas Golden Knights made sure they left an impression with theirs, however excessive it may have been. Before their players went out and beat the Capitals in a wild 6-4 game Monday night, the team put on its own show pregame, a […]

LAS VEGAS — Alex Tuch collected the skittering puck with absolutely nothing between him and the tying goal with two minutes left in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final. Braden Holtby reacted with pure instinct. Washington’s goalie stretched back and lunged to his right with his stick, thrusting the paddle into the exact 4-inch […]

Brian Leetch remembered being a sophomore in high school and being intimidated by David Quinn. Leetch, the former Rangers star defenseman, and Quinn, the man who last week was named the 35th head coach in franchise history, have a long and storied past. It started back in 1982 when Leetch’s local rink in Connecticut closed […]

Larry Brooks has been called a lot of things by a lot of people over the decades, but soon he’ll be able to call himself a Hall of Famer. The longtime hockey scribe at The Post was announced on Friday as this year’s recipient of the Elmer Ferguson Award, bestowed by the Hockey Hall of […]