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A year ago, Kevin Shattenkirk was playing through a knee injury just so he could make the opening night start in his first season with his hometown Rangers. It turned out to be a bad idea, the beginning of a hugely disappointing season both for the New Rochelle native and the Blueshirts. In the interim, […]

MSG Network is turning to a pair of familiar faces to replace Ron Duguay. Duguay had been a mainstay of Rangers’ pre- and postgame coverage the past 12 years — doing around 40-45 games a season — but he and MSG announced last week that they’d be parting ways. MSG will use a combination of […]

It seems like just about everything is new except the logo. The Rangers will open the 2018-19 season on Thursday night at the Garden against the Predators with an unfamiliar coach, some unfamiliar alternate captains, a lot of unfamiliar players — and especially, unfamiliar expectations. This team is not supposed to be a shoo-in for […]

Of course Brian Leetch knows how much the 1994 Stanley Cup-winning Rangers mean to fans of a certain age. He knows because he is told about it all the time. The Hall of Fame defenseman, and Conn Smythe winner for that team, will reunite with the majority of his former mates for a 25th anniversary […]

So here we go. When the Rangers take the ice for Thursday’s season opener at the Garden, they’ll see a powerful Predators team that has been on the cusp of winning the Cup for a few years now, and from which nothing less than a championship will be deemed acceptable. In other words, the Way […]

It was pure joy mixed with a dash of pettiness. The Capitals celebrated their Stanley Cup victory before destroying the Bruins 7-0 on the NHL’s season-opening night Wednesday. The 4-minute-plus video showed plenty of scenes from Washington’s shocking Stanley Cup run, the franchise’s first championship in its 44-year history. However, it did not include the […]

MSG Network Rangers studio analyst and former goalie Steve Valiquette talks with The Post’s Justin Terranova about a different kind of Rangers season, his experience with Henrik Lundqvist and how he’ll approach analyzing a young team. Q: How has this Rangers’ rebuild gone since it began? A: (GM) Jeff Gorton has gotten a maximum load […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — The New York Islanders don’t have John Tavares anymore. They still have playmakers. Reigning rookie of the year Mathew Barzal set up Josh Bailey’s power-play winner 43 seconds into overtime, and the Islanders began their post-Tavares era by beating the Carolina Hurricanes 2-1 on Thursday night. “That whole power play has been […]

The Rangers don’t want to be satisfied with moral victories in this season of rebuilding, and that includes hanging with one of the best teams in the league and eventually having their decent effort undercut by a bad non-call from a mostly negligent officiating staff. So they did not walk away all smiles and consolation […]

The last time the Rangers had a head coach making his NHL debut, they won for Bryan Trottier in Carolina to kick off the 2002-03 season. That was not a harbinger of things to come, the coach gone after a 21-26-6-1, 54-game misadventure. Which is to suggest that not all that much should be read […]