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DALLAS — The Rangers arrived here late Tuesday owning three of the first 28 and five of the first 48 selections in the NHL entry draft, which will begin Friday night with Round 1. Nothing has changed in the interim. Unless general manager Jeff Gorton can work out an equitable deal with straw-grasping Canadiens counterpart […]

Mathew Barzal, Taylor Hall and Brian Boyle all put together historic seasons on the ice in the New York City area — and now have the hardware to prove it. The Islanders’ Barzal and the Devils’ Hall and Boyle all took home prestigious honors Wednesday night at the NHL Awards in Las Vegas. Hall became […]

DALLAS — This has been Lou Lamoriello’s MO since he hired Jacques Lemaire to run the Devils in 1993, or maybe even since hiring Herb Brooks to go behind the New Jersey bench the season before that. Strength and credibility behind the bench, winning his Cups with Lemaire, Larry Robinson and Pat Burns. Now, the […]

DALLAS — Boy, how things have fallen into place for the Islanders. And it’s all happened so fast. The total restructuring of the organization that continued with the hiring of Barry Trotz as the new head coach on Thursday could only have been thought of as fantasy a few months ago. And if negotiations with […]

DALLAS — Jeff Gorton was not really entertaining the idea spewed by a few outsiders that the Rangers aren’t fully committed to this rebuild. Instead, the Blueshirts’ general manager made it very clear on the eve of the NHL entry draft Thursday night that the focus is strictly on the future, just as it has […]

DALLAS — It has been four decades since the Rangers built their team primarily through the draft — the 1970s, when homegrown Steve Vickers, Pat Hickey, Dave Maloney, Ron Greschner, Don Murdoch, Dave Farrish, Mike McEwen, Lucien DeBlois, Ron Duguay, Mario Marois and Don Maloney formed the foundation of the club that went to the […]

DALLAS — The Rangers are in an enviable spot going into the first round of the NHL entry draft starting here Friday night, holding picks Nos. 9, 26 and 28. Also with a bevy of restricted free agents on their roster, general manager Jeff Gorton has quite a bit of flexibility if he wants to […]

DALLAS — The Rangers have been aggressive throughout this rebuilding process, and that didn’t stop at the beginning of the draft Friday night. Instead, the Blueshirts went a bit outside conventional thinking when they took 18-year-old Russian winger Vitali Kravtsov with the No. 9-overall pick. With a handful of higher-rated prospects still available — the […]

DALLAS — There already has been a bit of terrific timing for the Islanders, starting with their hiring of Lou Lamoriello as president, then going on to the hiring of Barry Trotz as the new coach. That type of good luck continued in the first round of the draft Friday night, when an unpredictable first […]

DALLAS — The NHL’s inaugural draft was held in 1963 in Montreal, where six players were chosen in a private affair. It has since evolved into a sprawling extravaganza, the latest of which opened here Friday night with the 31-team first round. Over the previous 55 sweepstakes, the Rangers had selected 514 players. Not once […]