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No, there was no guarantee. And this was hardly Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals 25 years ago. But Mika Zibanejad did his best Mark Messier impersonation, completing the first hat trick for a Ranger in New Jersey since the captain’s epic 1994 playoff performance, this one resulting in a mid-winter 4-3 victory over […]

So another teaching moment for another young Ranger denied a uniform for a divisional rivalry game. Say what you will about David Quinn, but this is a coach who addresses issues on the spot rather than sloughing them off for a later day. Two nights after Pavel Buchnevich sat against the Flyers, Tony DeAngelo was […]

First David Quinn benched him, then he rewarded him. The Rangers coach brought Pavel Buchnevich back into the lineup for Thursday night’s 4-3 win over the Devils in Newark just two days after he had made the talented 23-year-old winger a healthy scratch in a 1-0 loss to the Flyers at the Garden. Buchnevich started […]

It is officially February, the best month of the regular season for the NHL. Most of the time. Despite a couple of dud trade deadlines over the past few years, the league is primed for a great one coming on Feb. 25. And it all goes through Columbus. That is where two of the biggest […]

Derick Brassard is on the move again. The Penguins sent the center to the Panthers along with forward Riley Sheahan in exchange for forward Nick Bjugstad and Jared McCann on Friday. For Brassard, the trade means suiting up for his fifth NHL team over his 12-year NHL career. The former sixth-overall pick in the 2006 […]

The Lightning and their high-flying offense hadn’t been shut out all season. The Islanders blanked them for 65 minutes, but it still wasn’t enough. Victor Hedman scored the only goal in shootout Friday night to lift Tampa Bay past the Isles 1-0 after both goaltenders put on a spectacular display in regulation and overtime. Hedman […]

It’s easy to see right away that Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider are both good friends with Mats Zuccarello. But the Rangers’ red-hot top line likely won’t be intact much longer, because Zuccarello seems destined to be shipped out before the Feb. 25 trade deadline. It’s a topic that is uncomfortable, but unavoidable — especially […]

It wasn’t just that one turnover. But it didn’t help. Jimmy Vesey made a difficult mistake in the third period of the Rangers’ 4-3 win over the Devils on Thursday night in Newark, coughing up the puck in his own zone less than a minute after his team had taken a 3-2 lead. The result […]

Agonizing as the decision may be for the Blue Jackets’ hierarchy, which features good men John Davidson as president and Jarmo Kekalainen as general manager, the choice seems rather clear-cut as concerns impending free agent Artemi Panarin. If the Columbus organization feels it is on the cusp of a serious challenge for the Stanley Cup […]

MONTREAL — Nico Hischier wore the alternate captain’s “A” on his jersey for the first time in his career. The 20-year-old Swiss star has fast become a leader for the New Jersey Devils. Hischier scored at 1:56 of overtime after tying it midway through the third period in the Devils’ 3-2 victory over the Montreal […]