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LOS ANGELES — Dave Maloney and his band were coming and that meant Peter Stemkowski and his ilk were either going or already out the door. The Rangers’ Era of Excellence Without Winning the Cup I had ended, and the basic difference between the situation four decades ago and now is that Emile Francis didn’t […]

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Adam McQuaid’s misfortune becomes Tony DeAngelo’s opportunity. After sitting out six straight and eight of the first 10 as a healthy scratch, No. 77 will get the call in LA on Sunday in the aftermath of the lower-body injury that forced McQuaid out of the game in Chicago on Thursday. “Day-to-day,” […]

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Rangers have utilized 23 different line combinations to start their first 10 games. Sunday afternoon against the Kings, coach David Quinn will feature combinations 24, 25, 26 and 27. This is not a manifestation of a coach pulling names out of a hat in an attempt to generate offense from […]

LOS ANGELES — Alec Martinez scored with 55 seconds remaining, and the Kings stopped a six-game skid with a 4-3 win over the Rangers on Sunday. Martinez brought the puck from behind the net into the offensive zone and fired a wrist shot through the legs of Brendan Smith and past goaltender Henrik Lundqvist for […]

LOS ANGELES — The Rangers right now are bad at just about everything. That, unfortunately, includes being bad at math. For the third straight game and the fifth time in their first 11 matches, the Blueshirts could not count accurately to six and were assessed yet another too-many-men-on-the-ice minor. There might be an excuse for […]

RALEIGH, N.C. — Nothing brings out the best in Islanders goalie Thomas Greiss quite like the Hurricanes — and the barrage of shots they toss his way. The Islanders beat Carolina 2-1 on Sunday night after Greiss made 38 saves in his fifth straight victory against the Hurricanes. “He seems to love this building,” teammate […]

LOS ANGELES — Delay of Game. On the National Hockey League. After enduring a delay of 6:58 for an offside challenge issued by San Jose coach Peter DeBoer at the Garden on Oct. 11 on a Brett Howden goal that stood, the Blueshirts (and the Kings) waited around for an astonishing 7:35 before Vladislav Namestnikov’s […]

LOS ANGELES — These are dangerous days for the Rangers, who in living down to everyone’s lowest expectations of them face a critical time of reckoning halfway through this challenging four-game trip that moves from here to San Jose on Tuesday and then back down to Anaheim on Thursday. Simply, only 11 games in but […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Rangers practiced changes Monday in Los Angeles before flying here for Tuesday’s match against the Sharks. Of course they did, in the aftermath of picking up a too-many-men penalty for the third straight game and fifth time in 11 games overall. This one was damaging, coming as it did midway […]

There is only one reason Josh Ho-Sang wouldn’t use the word “unfair” in describing his current plight as a minor-league player in the Islanders system. “There’s no such thing as fair,” Ho-Sang told The Post over the weekend when his AHL Sound Tigers visited Hartford to play the Wolf pack. “It doesn’t exist, as much […]