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Add one more to the Islanders walking wounded. Winger Cal Clutterbuck left early in the second period and did not return during the Islanders’ 2-1 shootout win over the Devils in Newark on Thursday night. The team announced only that he would not return to the game, and when coach Barry Trotz was asked afterward […]

For one brief shining moment, there was Camelot. Twenty-five years ago, Mark Messier was King Arthur, Brian Leetch, Mike Richter and Adam Graves were Knights of the Roundtable and history was made at the Garden, reverberating in the building and up the Canyon of Heroes through which the Rangers strode with glee as champions while […]

Henrik Lundqvist coveted the Statue of Liberty. “When I came over for my first training camp [in 2005], I wanted to have the Statue of Liberty on the crown of my mask,” the Rangers goaltender said. “Back home [in Sweden], playing for Frolunda [Indians], I had their insignia of the Indian headdress on my crown, […]

Click:HE 5000 “Matteau, Matteau, Matteau …” or was it Tikkanen? Longtime Rangers play-by-play man Sam Rosen could not tell from his angle which player was responsible for the decisive goal in Game 7 of the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals against the Devils. “Howie Rose’s call is the iconic call and one of the great calls […]

Cheers for the architect of the Rangers’ only Stanley Cup-winning team since 1940 washed over Neil Smith as the 1994 champions were introduced Friday night to an adoring Garden audience that 25 years later still cannot thank them enough. This was a hearty welcome back for the general manager, who has generally been an outcast […]

The aura and accomplishment of what 1994 means to the Rangers and their fan base somehow may only have grown in stature over the past quarter-century. At least it sounded that way for those who broke the franchise’s 1940 hex by finally hoisting the Stanley Cup that June, and for those in attendance at the […]

Even having Mark Messier and his fabled teammates address them in the locker room before the game couldn’t serve as enough inspiration Friday night for the Rangers. After the 1994 Stanley Cup winners honored in a 25th anniversary pregame ceremony at center ice, the Blueshirts came up empty in a 3-0 loss to the Hurricanes […]

Stephane Matteau thought it was time to reveal what truly was the biggest goal of his life. More than 17 years after his last drink in 2001, Matteau went public with his struggles with depression and alcohol Friday, first in a published report and later in a conversation with The Post ahead of the Rangers’ […]

One member of the 1993-94 Rangers was sadly missed at the team’s 25th anniversary celebration of the franchise’s most recent Stanley Cup championship. Alexander Karpovtsev, a rookie and one of four Russian players on that historic Blueshirts squad, was among those killed in the plane crash in Russia that claimed most of the Kontinental Hockey […]

The Islanders are skating with the big boys now, having entered the weekend in first place in the Metropolitan Division, two points ahead of coach Barry Trotz’s former team, the defending Stanley Cup champion Capitals, with one game in hand. This was not the time and Barclays Center was not the place for a clunker […]