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At first blush, Edmonton’s hiring of wise old owl Ken Hitchcock to replace Todd McLellan behind the bench might seem counterintuitive. You might have expected the Oilers, so heavily invested in their young stars, and particularly in the brightest of all, Connor McDavid, to seek a young voice. But no, they hired Hitchcock, who has […]

PHILADELPHIA — What better way to surprise a Philadelphia wedding party than with the instant sensation Gritty? KYW-TV reports newlyweds were shocked when the 7-foot mascot for the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers showed up Friday night and started dancing with the bride. A video taken by a relative and posted to Twitter captures the orange monster […]

When Nick Leddy first got to the Islanders in a coup of a trade just before the 2014-15 season that pried the slick-skating young defenseman from the salary-cap stalemate in Chicago, he was a revelation. When then-general manager Garth Snow handed him a seven-year, $38.5 million deal, with an annual salary-cap hit of $5.5 million […]

The audacity of the Islanders, talking about the Metropolitan Division standings like nobody alerted them that they were supposed to be bad. But there was another victory on the board, a vacuum-sealed 4-1 win over their whipping boys, the Hurricanes, on Saturday night at Barclays Center. It happened to wrap up their a sweep of […]

ST. LOUIS — Patrik Laine scored five goals Saturday in the Winnipeg Jets’ 8-4 victory at St. Louis, two short of the 97-year-old NHL record. It was the 61st five-goal game in league history. Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs was the last player to score six goals in a game, on April 22, […]

Before the game, Barry Trotz played it cool. Afterward, when it was the next order of business? It was clear the first-year Islanders coach was starting to feel the emotions building. It will be a big day for Trotz when the Capitals come to Barclays Center on Monday night, the first time he is facing […]

The Winnipeg Jets weren’t the only ones cashing in on Patrik Laine’s five-goal performance in a win over the Blues on Saturday night. His feat also earned one fan in Manitoba a $1 million prize in the “Score to Win” contest put on by Canadian supermarket chain Sobeys/Safeway. The rules of the game say one […]

There won’t be an administrative knee jerk to the back-to-back losses any more than there was a front-office overreaction to the 9-1-1 streak that preceded the Rangers’ twin holiday weekend disappointments. General manager Jeff Gorton is taking the long view. “We’re going to watch what unfolds, evaluate and go from there,” Gorton told The Post. […]

A lot of emotions go into getting traded, and Ryan Strome knows them well. So the 25-year-old forward, whom the Rangers acquired on Nov. 16 in the second trade of his young career, knew what his little brother, Dylan, was going through when he was traded from the Coyotes to the Blackhawks on Sunday. “My […]

Click:dandruff solution The ring made up of 252 diamonds, 35 rubies and a star-shaped sapphire was also set to come with a sense of closure once it fit around the finger of Barry Trotz on Monday night. Before the Islanders coach took his spot behind the bench against his old team at Barclays Center, for […]