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The lesson of Feb. 15 did not stick, so Filip Chytil is going to be presented with another chance to learn what is expected of him as an NHL player. But this time when the talented 19-year-old Rangers rookie sits out as a healthy scratch, as he will against the Lightning at the Garden on […]

It feels as if everyone is waiting for the clock to strike midnight and for this Islanders season to turn back into a pumpkin. At this point, an orange tint is starting to show. There isn’t quite panic yet, not after the 3-1 loss to the Flames on Tuesday night at the Coliseum that still […]

The rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. “Rotten,” of course, used here as a term of endearment. “The closest player to the way I play would probably be my dad,” Brendan Lemieux, acquired by the Rangers from Winnipeg on Monday as part of the return for Kevin Hayes, said following Tuesday’s practice. “That’s […]

The timing made the cliche true. The Islanders didn’t make a move before Monday’s trade deadline, but they did get two key pieces back into the lineup for what they considered their own internal additions. Defenseman Thomas Hickey and forward Andrew Ladd returned from long-term injuries in the 3-1 loss to the Flames at the […]

New Jersey defenseman Mirco Mueller had full range of motion and was conscious after being taken off the ice on a stretcher following a nasty, head-first fall into the end boards during the Devils’ game with Calgary on Wednesday night. Devils coach John Hynes said after the game Mueller sat up in the locker room […]

Ever since John Tavares tweeted, on July 1, a picture of his younger self in Maple Leafs bed sheets — ending a string of tweets confirming he was leaving the Islanders to go home to Toronto in free agency — 7 p.m. on Thursday has been looming. The Islanders are already 62 games deep into […]

Somehow, it seems unfair. It seems unfair that after rallying from two goals down, outplaying the NHL-leading Lightning through the final 40 minutes of regulation and sending the match into overtime, that the Rangers should have lost yet another in three-on-three as they did 4-3 Wednesday night when Victor Hedman took advantage of a pick […]

An open letter, to my fellow islanders: I come to you this morning not as a sportswriter, a detached denizen of the press box, but as one who spent dozens of nights — maybe a couple hundred of them — where you will be this evening, in that wonderful old building on Hempstead Turnpike alternately […]

They weren’t going to pay either player on long-term deals to prevent them from hitting the free-agent market, so each was traded prior to the deadline. No, this is not a reference to Mats Zuccarello and Kevin Hayes, sent to Dallas and Winnipeg, respectively, over this past weekend, but rather to Ryan McDonagh and J.T. […]

For most of the thousands inside the Coliseum, Thursday night will be about the return of John Tavares. For Barry Trotz and the Islanders, they insist it will be about a simpler, less emotional focus. “Toronto’s probably rallying around John right now, knowing how important it is to John coming back here,” Trotz said Wednesday. […]