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The similarities are striking. Both were seventh-round draft picks. Both measured in shy of 5-foot-10. And as much as defensemen have tried to chase them down the ice, those defensemen were often left seeing only the “Ronning” on the back of both their jerseys. Cliff Ronning made a career of it for 17 seasons in […]

It has not been the easiest week for Lou Lamoriello and the Islanders, but they are doing what they can to move forward and not let the loss of John Tavares crush them. Certainly, that’s easier said than done when the franchise player decided to bolt for his hometown Maple Leafs when free agency opened […]

The next step in negotiations for the Rangers and their large group of restricted free agents took place Thursday, when forwards Kevin Hayes, Jimmy Vesey and Ryan Spooner, along with defenseman Brady Skjei, filed for salary arbitration before the 5 p.m. deadline. It’s unlikely any of them will get to an actual arbitration hearing, but […]

The Rangers are interested third parties in the Erik Karlsson affair, willing to aid and abet a deal between the Senators and Lightning if Tampa Bay can provide a sweetener more significant than the guarantee of a late first-round draft choice. That has been the extent of general manager Jeff Gorton’s participation in the soapbox […]

Vitali Kravtsov’s development will continue for one more season in Russia after the likelihood arose that a conflict over the final year of his KHL contract would keep the Blueshirts’ 2018 ninth-overall draft selection off the ice for an extended period, The Post has learned. Sources report that the KHL was prepared to file a […]

John Tavares hears your pity but wants nothing to do with it. The former Islanders captain addressed the Long Island faithful for the first time since snubbing them in free agency for the Maple Leafs, laying out the reasons behind his momentous decision in a Players’ Tribune piece Wednesday. Tavares, who left millions on the […]

As new Rangers coach David Quinn thinks about wanting his team to be harder to play against, the team signed muscle-bound winger Cody McLeod to a one-year, $750,000 deal Thursday. The 34-year-old McLeod was picked up by the Rangers off waivers from the Predators in January, and he played 25 games for the Blueshirts, registering […]

Bobo Carpenter has select memories from 2003 when his father, Bobby Carpenter, won the Stanley Cup as the assistant coach for the Devils. The now 21-year-old was 7 at the time and remembers being on the ice with his family, seeing the Cup up close. But in every photo Carpenter has from that night that […]

Click:dance costume costumes It is the principal every bit as much as the principle in this case, if not more so. Because though there might be an argument to be made that a youngish, finesse-oriented team such as the Rangers could benefit from having an enforcer/protector in the lineup, it represents a leap of faith […]

Former NHL goaltender Ray Emery has drowned in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. He was 35. Hamilton Police said Emery was identified as the victim of the swimming accident Sunday morning. Staff sergeant Paul Evans said police received a call just after 6 a.m. that an adult swimmer did not surface and that the Niagara […]