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New Jersey Devils fans came to the Prudential Center to jeer Ilya Kovalchuk. The home team certainly didn’t give them a reason to cheer. Tyler Toffoli scored twice in 35 seconds early in the third period to spark the Los Angeles Kings to a 5-1 victory over the Devils on Tuesday night at Prudential Center […]

There it was, the dreaded on-ice conversation at the end of practice: Rangers coach David Quinn talking in an animated way, young defenseman Neal Pionk nodding his head in acknowledgment. This is how a player gets notified he is going to be a healthy scratch. Pionk, 23, has played a lot of difficult minutes for […]

Politicians from Nassau County have starting petitioning the NHL to allow the Islanders to play home playoff games at the Coliseum rather than Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, where the team and the league would make far more money. Letters were sent to commissioner Gary Bettman on Tuesday, including ones from County Executive Laura Curran and State […]

Alex Georgiev is not planning for an increased workload down the stretch, even though that seems likely to happen. Instead, the Rangers’ backup goalie is taking one day at a time — which includes a scheduled start for the Garden match against the Bruins on Wednesday night. “Hockey is so unpredictable, you can’t plan even […]

Trading Cody McLeod to the Predators for a 2020 seventh-round draft pick, as the Rangers did prior to facing the Bruins at the Garden on Wednesday, “made a lot of sense,” coach David Quinn said. “I loved having Cody here,” said Quinn, who as an assistant previously had coached McLeod in Colorado in 2012-13. “This […]

The rebuilding Devils traded a respected and inspirational part of their present on Wednesday for a chance to build for the future — dealing 2017 Masterton Trophy winner Brian Boyle to the Predators for a second-round pick in this June’s NHL draft. Boyle, 34, thus gets a chance to win a Stanley Cup with the […]

This was one that came out of nowhere. That does not necessarily refer to the Rangers’ current position in the standings, but instead to the emptiness that could be felt after a second period Wednesday at the Garden in which the Bruins capitalized for three goals in a span of 4:34 to take a two-goal […]

A lot of things crossed Thomas Hickey’s mind over the past seven weeks, as the post-concussion symptoms would not leave the Islanders defenseman alone. When would he be able to come back? Could this be it for his season? Would this affect the way he lives the rest of his life? “I think it does […]

Every time the Knicks step onto the court these days, it’s clear — their strategy isn’t based on trying to win games this season. Their strategy is completely about the future. They won’t use the word, but everyone knows what they are doing. It’s called tanking. The issue of tanking has become one of the […]

Islanders were facing a goalie who hadn’t won an NHL game in 13 months, an opponent far outside the playoff picture, an organization that already had begun a sell-off leading into the Feb. 25 trade deadline, yet here was the message for Barry Trotz’s team: “Understand that it’s not going to come easy,” the Islanders […]