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This was quite a bit better for Henrik Lundqvist. The Rangers’ franchise netminder bounced back in his second preseason performance, stopping 14-of-15 shots over two periods in his team’s 4-3 overtime win over the Devils on Monday night at the Garden. It was a very different scenario than in his first preseason action, when he […]

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Flyers have introduced an odd-looking new team mascot — a 7-foot fuzzy creature named Gritty with a wild, orange beard. The creature is so bizarre that Twitter could not get enough. The character’s debut triggered an outpouring of comments online, including, “Good luck sleeping tonight, Flyers fans,” and comparisons to ZZ […]

Lias Andersson had a big first game in New Jersey and Neal Pionk has been the same steadying and creative presence in two preseason outings as he was during his Broadway run late last season. But none of the young Rangers has taken a bolder step forward toward earning a spot on the opening roster […]

The separated shoulder sustained by Matt Beleskey and the concussion incurred by Boo Nieves will pin salary-cap charges on the Rangers through the early weeks of the season. Injured players cannot be placed on waivers, so that means Beleskey, who suffered a shoulder separation fighting with New Jersey’s Eric Gryba on Monday, will be placed […]

Decisions on the identities of the 21st, 22nd and 23rd men on the Rangers’ opening roster are pending through camp’s final days, but the play of the club’s upper-echelon athletes — and not management’s final verdicts — will be determinative if they are going to be something other than fodder for the NHL’s established playoff […]

A center for the Philadelphia Flyers is being investigated by the NHL after a news report in his native Finland linked him to a cocaine ring there, league officials confirmed. Jori Lehtera, 30, is one of 23 suspects in an investigation involving the sale and distribution of two kilos of cocaine, Finnish news outlet MTV […]

PHILADELPHIA — David Quinn stood on the precipice Thursday night of beginning his journey as Rangers head coach, with the final preseason game a sleepy 4-2 win over the Flyers. The regular-season opener was exactly a week away, Oct. 4 when the Blueshirts play host to the Predators. It was a coincidence Quinn stood in […]

The Rangers apparently believe that Lias Andersson and the organization will benefit more by sending the 2017 seventh-overall draft pick back to the AHL Wolf Pack for major minutes than keeping the 20-year-old center in New York as a supplementary player. So that is what general manager Jeff Gorton and the staff did here on […]

If the order of first-round selections at the 2017 entry draft had been reversed and the Rangers had chosen Filip Chytil seventh overall and Lias Andersson 21st, there would have been no eyebrows raised at management’s decision to dispatch Andersson to the AHL on Friday during the final round of roster cuts. But this is […]

Vinni Lettieri has been here before. Four different times last season as an in-season recall, in fact. But making the Rangers’ roster out of training camp represents a milestone for the 23-year-old undrafted winger. “I’m honored to be here,” said Lettieri, who became more noticeable by the day throughout camp. “It’s a different feeling than […]