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BRENTWOOD, Mo. — The location and the timing of Kevin Shattenkirk’s return to the Rangers lineup was lost on no one. The Blueshirts will get their big-ticket blueliner back for the New Year’s Eve game in St. Louis on Monday night against the Blues, the franchise with whom he established himself as one of the […]

Mackenzie Blackwood has provided an expected lift for the New Jersey Devils. Blackwood posted his second straight shutout, stopping 25 shots in the Devils’ 4-0 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Monday at the Prudential Center in Newark. He became the first rookie goalie in franchise history to post back-to-back shutouts. Blackwood is 3-1 since […]

BUFFALO — Robin Lehner made an emotional return to Buffalo and led the Islanders to a milestone victory for coach Barry Trotz. Lehner made 39 saves against his former team as the Islanders beat the Sabres 3-1 on Monday night. The Islanders’ fourth straight victory moved Trotz into fourth place on the NHL’s all-time win […]

ST. LOUIS — There already have been enough losses this season that the Rangers thought they didn’t deserve, so maybe they don’t feel so bad taking a win they thought wasn’t fully deserved either. And it certainly makes the turning of the calendar quite a bit sweeter. The Blueshirts were able to hold on by […]

ST. LOUIS — This was a move made in the name of development. Rangers coach David Quinn decided that it would be best to make 19-year-old rookie forward Filip Chytil a healthy scratch for the first time this season for the 2-1 win over the Blues on Monday night. Chytil, the No. 21-overall pick in […]

The kaboom unit struck again. The Rangers got another power-play goal Monday night in St. Louis from the five-forward group coach David Quinn famously said he wanted to blow up — “kaboom” — after failing so drastically before the Christmas break. It was the third goal in the previous three games for that group, having […]

The Rangers had some calendar year in 2018 — and they’d like to forget most of what has transpired on the ice. It began with the Winter Classic win over the Sabres at Citi Field and ended with a 2-1 win Monday night at St. Louis. Coach Alain Vigneault’s record in 2018 was 13-27-4, while […]

Before David Quinn could fall on the sword for him, Henrik Lundqvist put the Rangers’ latest loss fully on himself. Shortly after he was named the team’s lone All-Star, Lundqvist’s night ended early, but not until he had allowed six goals on 18 shots in an ugly 7-2 loss to the Penguins at the Garden. […]

If the NHL hadn’t called upon Henrik Lundqvist to represent the Rangers at the Jan. 26 All-Star Game in San Jose, Calif., perhaps the Blueshirts could have sent a hologram in his place, because the fact is the franchise’s entire anti-tanking program basically consists of writing the King’s name on the lineup sheet and then […]

DALLAS — The Devils rallied twice from two-goal deficits, but couldn’t get over the hump. Miro Heiskanen celebrated his first All-Star nod with two goals, including a third-period tiebreaker to lift the Dallas Stars over the New Jersey Devils 5-4 on Wednesday night. Heiskanen and Tyler Seguin each scored twice after Jamie Benn tied it […]