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Maybe it’ll be a footnote after this season that Thomas Greiss started the first two games in nets for the Islanders. Because if Robin Lehner plays like he did in the team’s 4-0 win over the Sharks on Monday afternoon at Barclays Center, the starting job will be his. In his season and team debut, […]

After opening their season with a third straight loss Sunday night, the Rangers flew back to New York for an off day Monday and a pair of practices before their next chance for their first win Thursday. Rookie coach David Quinn will go back to the drawing board, surely trying to solidify the defensive structure […]

Less than a week into the Rangers season, less than a week into David Quinn’s tenure as coach, and this is what it has come to: Kevin Shattenkirk as a healthy scratch. The veteran defenseman is more than likely to be benched for the team’s Garden match against the Sharks on Thursday night, with Quinn’s […]

Brett Howden has gone from just making the Rangers to now getting a top-six role. It looks like the rookie center is going to start Thursday’s match against the Sharks at the Garden, between Chris Kreider and Mats Zuccarello, as first-year coach David Quinn continues to search for answers with his 0-3-0 team. “He’s getting […]

The Nashville Predators had a great regular season last year. They finished with the best record in the NHL and 117 points. Then, in the playoffs, they lost. The Winnipeg Jets ousted them in seven games in the Western Conference semifinals. The Vegas Golden Knights ended up winning the Western Conference after defeating the Jets […]

The Rangers were running through power-play drills with a couple of revamped units during Wednesday’s practice when the head coach interrupted the proceedings with the same message that might have been delivered by Tom Renney, John Tortorella and Alain Vigneault before him. “Shoot the damn thing!” David Quinn bellowed. “It’s not a beauty contest! Get […]

Nobody ever projected Chris Kreider, Mika Zibanejad and Pavel Buchnevich would become the linear descendants of Vic Hadfield, Jean Ratelle and Rod Gilbert, but neither did anyone suggest that the Blueshirts’ putative first unit would be split up after six periods. “If you’d told that to me before the season, I’d have looked at you […]

This is not quite the same scenario that went down a year ago, when Filip Chytil was so impressive in his first Rangers training camp and then looked so overwhelmed once his rookie season started. That Broadway debut lasted two games for the teenager before a demotion and then a late-season call-up cameo of another […]

Of course David Quinn was concerned with the way this one went. But he was much more concerned with how it ended. The Rangers’ first-year coach picked up his first NHL win, a 3-2 overtime victory Thursday night over the Sharks at the Garden that was as sweet for him as it was ugly to […]

The old warhorse Tom McVie can rest easy. More to the point, so can new kid on the block David Quinn. For after coming up empty his first three tries as head man behind an NHL bench, the Blueshirts coach got his first game puck following his team’s 3-2 overtime victory over the Sharks at […]