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The Rangers won’t go so far as to explicitly say it — and probably never will — but it sure seems like we have reached the moral victories phase of this rebuilding season. Sure, they took a step forward. But if it was a step forward to record their fourth loss in a row, a […]

Click:drupal agency Players can’t be too focused on the big picture of a season, and forget them seeing a picture that includes about a decade of the same storyline. But it seems that, at least through the first half of this season, the roles between the big-brother Rangers and the little-brother Islanders have been somewhat […]

If Tony DeAngelo deserved to be in the Rangers lineup every night, he would be. Instead, coach David Quinn is dealing with the mercurial nature of his 23-year-old defenseman, still here in part because of his inability to be sent to AHL Hartford without clearing waivers (which he wouldn’t). At times, DeAngelo has shown the […]

Click:buy Chlorine tablet Mats Zuccarello was trying not to curse. He really was. But the way his Rangers lost Thursday night, the game-winning goal in a 4-3 defeat to the Islanders at the Garden coming on the only shot allowed in all of the third period, well, that’s a tough one to swallow. And considering […]

John Tavares is earning every penny of the seven-year, $77 million contract the Maple Leafs gave him in the offseason. Not only is he living up to the hype, the 28-year-old former Islander is having a career year. Tavares scored twice and hit the 300-goal mark for his career in leading the Maple Leafs to […]

If you want to rate degree of demoralizing defeats, be my guest. If you believe that Thursday’s 4-3 loss to the Islanders at the Garden in which the Nomads got the winner with 1:26 remaining in the third period on their only shot of the final 20 minutes — while the Rangers poured 17 on […]

Out came the skill and in went the muscle. And it seemed to work. Islanders coach Barry Trotz decided to scratch talented rookie Michael Dal Colle and dress the monstrous Ross Johnston for what would turn out to be his team’s 4-3 win over the Rangers on Thursday night at the Garden. Johnston had been […]

Rick Nash has been forced to retire from the NHL due to concussion worries. The former Rangers forward suffered his latest concussion in March with the Bruins, and despite playing in the postseason, opted not to sign a contract as a free agent this offseason. “Due to unresolved issues/symptoms from the concussion sustained last March, […]

Maybe this is a bias from being around Henrik Lundqvist for just about a decade, but it’s very difficult to understand how a NHL team can keep plodding along without a clear-cut No. 1 goalie. With the exception of the NFL quarterback, there is not another single player on a major pro sports team that […]

David Quinn repeated the line, either for emphasis or because it had consumed his thoughts. “We can’t let them win two games tonight,” the Rangers coach said after his team allowed a late goal and lost 4-3 to the Islanders on Thursday night at the Garden, the first of a home-and-home that concludes Saturday afternoon […]