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Practice — we’d define it as a “hard work” practice, but that would be redundant — ended, and David Quinn called his team to center ice. “How many games have you won at Barclays Center?” the coach asked the Rangers players gathered around him. Mats Zuccarello, good to go after missing the past three games […]

The season had ended two days earlier, the coach had been fired and the Rangers were in ruins as they went through their appointed rounds on breakup day at the training facility. The team, which had climbed to within three victories of the mountaintop in 2014 and had been among the league’s upper echelon for […]

For most of the Islanders players, the home at Barclays Center never quite felt like home. So any bit of nostalgia that might have come with what could be their final season playing in Brooklyn has never surfaced, not even in the hours before they defended their undefeated streak against the Rangers on Atlantic Avenue, […]

It’s as if the Rangers cross a bridge going East and suddenly forget how to win. The Blueshirts remained hapless and hopeless while playing hockey in Brooklyn, continuing their streak of never winning at Barclays Center with a wild 7-5 loss to the Islanders on Thursday night. The Islanders got the first career hat trick […]

The Islanders kept their recent success against the Rangers going Thursday night with a 7-5 victory at Barclays Center — improving to 10-1-2 over their cross-river rivals since the 2015-16 season — in a penalty-filled game. The game featured nine minor penalties and four power-play goals. One of those minors came when the Islanders’ reigning […]

Yes, of course David Quinn was upset when a Ranger was called for a four-minute penalty after doing absolutely nothing wrong. But here is how the Rangers coach described the interaction when official Dan O’Halloran came over for an explanation, having just nailed Mika Zibanejad for a high stick on Leo Komarov when it was […]

There was the feeling of sincerity in Gary Bettman’s Hockey Hall of Fame speech on Monday in Toronto when he mentioned the three work stoppages that happened on his watch. And that’s because Bettman will eventually leave behind a very complicated legacy that has both the best and worst of any league commissioner. It never […]

This is a marginal part of the Rangers’ rebuild. This is far more trading a mistake for a mistake and hoping it works out for both sides. General manager Jeff Gorton tried to get something back for his misgiven contract to Ryan Spooner by trading the 26-year-old winger to the Oilers on Friday afternoon in […]

David Quinn said he was going to do it, and he did. The Rangers’ first-year head coach continued his constant barrage of teaching during practices, using most of Friday’s session at the MSG Training Facility to work on defending the front of the net and defensive-zone coverage. It was exactly what perturbed him following the […]

The Rangers are not among the front-runners in the hunt to acquire Toronto’s restricted free-agent forward William Nylander, now just two weeks away from the Dec. 1 signing deadline. But they are interested, and of course they are. He is a superior 22-year-old talent whose addition would accelerate the team’s building process by leaps and […]