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It took a stark bit of candor from Barry Trotz to put the next chapter in the saga of Josh Ho-Sang into perspective. “To stay in the league — not only here, to stay in the league — is to be consistent in his game, and then produce,” the Islanders coach said of his mercurial […]

For a long time, things were constantly breaking in the Islanders’ favor. No more. Not for a while now. The team is going through just about its toughest stretch of adversity, needing a shootout to beat the woebegone Senators, 5-4, on Tuesday night at a quiet Coliseum. It could have cost them at least some […]

The Devils dominated much of the game, but still can’t find the winning formula when it comes to the Blue Jackets. Cam Atkinson and Artemi Panarin scored in a shootout and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped both New Jersey attempts to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 2-1 win over the Devils on Tuesday night at […]

DALLAS — David Quinn had been encouraged by the way the Rangers had competed against playoff contenders of late. But they still don’t have any wins to show for it. The Rangers kept it close again Tuesday night but came up empty on four power plays and lost their fifth straight, falling to the Stars […]

Understandable that a personal record wasn’t the first thing Barry Trotz was thinking about. But after everything, the Islanders coach was appreciative of the 5-4 shootout victory over the Senators on Tuesday night at the Coliseum that gave him career win No. 800, just the fourth coach in history to reach the milestone. “That was […]

DALLAS — There is no known trophy that comes with the unwelcome distinction, but the Rangers are getting all too familiar with referees taking back calls by the time it’s too late. “Unfortunately, we lead the league in apologies,” coach David Quinn said Wednesday after practice at American Airlines Center, the scene of the crime. […]

OTTAWA, Ontario — Barry Trotz didn’t want to go so far as to call his team complacent, but the Islanders coach sure wasn’t far off. What he issued was a clear-eyed, candid assessment of his squad, which has just been able to stave off collapse over the past two-plus weeks. “To me, when you’re really […]

DALLAS — Before the Rangers flew to Detroit for Thursday’s matchup against the Red Wings, David Quinn made sure he drilled a message into their heads. “We need to shoot more pucks,” the coach said Wednesday after a practice that had a heavy emphasis on exactly that. “We’ve heard that from Day 1. Just something […]

OTTAWA, Ontario — Just as it was becoming clear Robin Lehner was the Islanders starting goaltender, he got hurt. Lehner did not travel here with the team one day after he had been steamrolled by the Senators Brady Tkachuk late in the third period of what would become the Isles’ 5-4 shootout victory Tuesday night […]

DETROIT — In his most recent stint at AHL Hartford before returning to the Rangers, Lias Andersson’s numbers hardly jumped off the page: two goals and six assists in 22 games. It turns out, however, that the 20-year-old’s most important work may have come off the ice. Andersson put an emphasis on improving his conditioning […]