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RALEIGH, N.C. — The New York Party Poopers. The Rangers spoiled all the Hurricanes’ fun, disallowing another silly home-ice victory celebration, which had become the talk of the league. Instead, the visiting Blueshirts were backstopped by a 43-save performance from Henrik Lundqvist and took a 2-1 victory Tuesday night, skating off the ice without incident. […]

There goes the Devils’ modest winning streak. Bryan Rust scored a tiebreaking goal midway through the second period and the Penguins continued their playoff push and avoided the embarrassment of being swept by the lowly Devils with a 4-3 victory on Tuesday night at Prudential Center in Newark, despite the fact the character David Puddy […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Rangers and Neal Pionk both felt lucky the defenseman wasn’t more seriously injured on Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh, when he took a stick to the right eye from Sidney Crosby. That gratitude carried over when Pionk was able to take part in Tuesday’s morning skate, and that it was only for […]

Artemi Panarin pooped himself. The Columbus Blue Jackets star — and the NHL’s hottest trade candidate— was mysteriously scratched from Tuesday’s 3-2 loss against the Canadiens due to an undisclosed “illness.” Sports maladies near trade deadlines sometimes are coded words to keep the players safe from injury, which would make sense in this case. But […]

CALGARY, Alberta — The Islanders tied it up in the third period, but Austin Czarnik and Johnny Gaudreau goals 29 seconds apart in the third period to lead the Flames to a 4-2 win over the Islanders in a battle of first-place teams on Wednesday night. Mikael Backlund and former Islander Travis Hamonic also scored […]

The contract talks, not surprisingly, have gone nowhere. Hence, Mats Zuccarello and Kevin Hayes will be going somewhere by Monday. Until they do, they have played their last games. Or at least, that’s the call management should make prior to Thursday’s match at the Garden against the free-falling Wild. It wasn’t necessarily the money, but […]

David Quinn may have, in fact, been “told differently.” A few hours after the coach said he planned to play trade chips Mats Zuccarello, Kevin Hayes and Adam McQuaid on Thursday night at the Garden “until I’m told differently,” the Rangers may have tipped their hand by calling up Lias Andersson from AHL Hartford. The […]

Hopefully this guy has a comfortable couch or isn’t looking for another date. A man caught a flying puck at Wednesday night’s Avalanche-Jets game — and in doing so, he elbowed the woman he was with. Then, he gave the puck to a different woman in front of him. The lady he was with didn’t […]

Mats Zuccarello and Kevin Hayes may have gotten their Garden farewell after all — injury risk be damned. The two Rangers remained in the lineup Thursday night against the Wild at the Garden, as did defenseman Adam McQuaid, even with all three expected to be wearing different sweaters by Monday’s trade deadline. Coach David Quinn […]

Emmanuel Mudiay has walked in Zion Williamson’s busted shoe. Four years ago, Mudiay was a prized teenage prospect, nursing an ankle injury in China. The young guard had been sidelined for three months. The NBA draft was less than three months away, and the guaranteed lottery pick had little to gain by returning for the […]