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Nobody ever projected Chris Kreider, Mika Zibanejad and Pavel Buchnevich would become the linear descendants of Vic Hadfield, Jean Ratelle and Rod Gilbert, but neither did anyone suggest that the Blueshirts’ putative first unit would be split up after six periods. “If you’d told that to me before the season, I’d have looked at you […]

This is not quite the same scenario that went down a year ago, when Filip Chytil was so impressive in his first Rangers training camp and then looked so overwhelmed once his rookie season started. That Broadway debut lasted two games for the teenager before a demotion and then a late-season call-up cameo of another […]

Of course David Quinn was concerned with the way this one went. But he was much more concerned with how it ended. The Rangers’ first-year coach picked up his first NHL win, a 3-2 overtime victory Thursday night over the Sharks at the Garden that was as sweet for him as it was ugly to […]

The old warhorse Tom McVie can rest easy. More to the point, so can new kid on the block David Quinn. For after coming up empty his first three tries as head man behind an NHL bench, the Blueshirts coach got his first game puck following his team’s 3-2 overtime victory over the Sharks at […]

Kevin Shattenkirk’s benching was set to last just one game, no matter what happened. That was the message from Rangers coach David Quinn as he made the first boldfaced move of his tenure behind the bench, scratching Shattenkirk for what turned out to be the Rangers’ first win of the season, a 3-2 overtime victory […]

There is potential for such drama up in Toronto that it’s almost hard not to root for a renegade general manager to really throw a wrench into the mix. There is no bias here for or against the Maple Leafs (or any other team, for that matter). But there is a bias for wanting action, […]

It seems as if Rangers coach David Quinn wants at least one more game to look at Pavel Buchnevich on the left side, a place the winger previously had never played at any point in his career. In doing so, Quinn seems as if he’s about to put Buchnevich with the 20-year-old rookie center who […]

The Rangers have invested a lot in Brady Skjei to be a top-tier defenseman, and that comes with quite a bit of responsibility. It also might include being a partner for Kevin Shattenkirk, as the veteran is set to return from his one-game scratch with Saturday’s matinee at the Garden against the Oilers. The two […]

We have no idea how the NHL settled upon 27 games as the length of the suspension imposed on Austin Watson after the Nashville forward pleaded no contest to a domestic assault charge in July. The league has no domestic violence policy. Matters of this sort are left to the commissioner’s sole discretion under Article […]

The idea now is for the Rangers not to get too discouraged after a performance like this, a sleepy 2-1 loss to the Oilers on Saturday afternoon at the Garden that was at least a step in the right direction in terms of defending for 60 minutes. But a loss is still a loss, and […]