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Another hopeful piece of the Rangers’ future has arrived. Libor Hajek will make his NHL debut Friday night at the Garden against the Canadiens, just over a year after the Rangers acquired the 21-year-old defenseman from the Lightning as a key part of the trade of Ryan McDonagh and J.T. Miller. While Hajek had recorded […]

This was hardly just the return of a former player. Far from it. What this felt like was the catharsis of an entire fan base, the stress and angst of decades coming to a head and exiting through whooping chants and hateful sing-song. And then an epic celebration, where some 14,000 people leaving the Coliseum […]

Islanders fans got to enjoy a 6-1 win over John Tavares’ Maple Leafs on Thursday night at the Coliseum. Here’s a list of some of the various chants from Islanders fans at the Coliseum on Thursday for John Tavares’ return: “J.T. sucks” “We don’t need you” “Who’s your daddy?” “Bar-zy’s better” “A–hole” “That’s our captain” […]

The favorite son grew up and went away, and when he returned home for a visit, well, guess what? He was not welcome. Shocker. John Taveras spent the first nine years of his career bleeding the blue and orange of the Islanders franchise he represented with dignity. That barely mattered to the rabid fans who […]

The Islanders desperately don’t want what happened with John Tavares to happen again with the man who took over his team captaincy, Anders Lee. Yet the big-bodied Lee is set to be an unrestricted free agent this summer, just as Tavares was last summer before he signed a deal with his hometown Maple Leafs. So […]

David Quinn’s initial foray into NHL overtime delivered his first career win. “I loved overtime then,” the coach said with a grin Thursday. But in the eight games that have ended in overtime since that 3-2 victory over the Sharks on Oct. 11 at the Garden, the Rangers are 0-8, including Wednesday’s loss to the […]

Sean Avery is trying to take John Tavares’ place as the most hated hockey player on Long Island. The former Rangers forward, who retired in 2012 after years as one of the league’s most reviled players, blasted Islanders fans in a profanity-laced video he posted Friday for their treatment of their former captain in his […]

It wasn’t where it hit, but how it hit. And that could have been the difference between life and death. Islanders defenseman Johnny Boychuk was part of one of hockey’s scariest possible moments on Thursday night at the Coliseum when he took a skate blade to the throat. Late in the second period, he had […]

The Rangers had worked to earn most of the best scoring chances early Friday night and only had a one-goal lead to show for it, thanks to Carey Price. The Canadiens then used a pair of second-period dump-ins to grab hold of the game for good. Teams often lament bad bounces, and while the Rangers […]

The emotional high was followed by the emotional lull. This is the roller coaster the Islanders are going to ride for the rest of the season, possibly into the postseason — which, mind you, they are thinking about quite a bit now that the calendar has turned to March. And letdowns like this self-inflicted 3-1 […]