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COLUMBUS, Ohio — It was already a short leash for Brendan Smith. But another difficult performance Friday night in Detroit hardly helped. So the veteran defenseman was made a healthy scratch for the second leg of this road back-to-back, a 5-4 shootout win over the Blue Jackets on Saturday night. It was the first time […]

TORONTO — The sign of a good columnist has been the same forever — love him or hate him, you always read him (or her). So let the incomparable John Davidson explain the lasting impact of Larry Brooks, as The Post’s longtime NHL columnist prepares to go into the Hockey Hall of Fame with an […]

TORONTO — What exactly are the Rangers doing? Maybe things have evened out a bit. Maybe they never were as bad as that 3-7-1 getaway under first-year head coach David Quinn. Just like maybe they aren’t quite as good as this run of 5-0-1 that continued with taking three of four points on a road […]

Pavel Buchnevich will be a scratch for the foreseeable future — this time through no fault of his own. Just when the Rangers winger was playing some of his best hockey, Buchnevich broke his thumb Saturday against the Blue Jackets and will miss four to six weeks, the team announced Monday. Buchnevich had tallied two […]

Canucks rookie Elias Pettersson has splashed onto the NHL scene this year, but his countryman on the Rangers is hardly surprised. Lias Andersson played with Pettersson on Swedish national teams growing up, once stuck on the fourth line before working their way up to top-line duties on the 2018 World Juniors squad that finished runners-up […]

They are young, but the Rangers don’t believe that precludes them from winning right now. The youth was served on Monday, when it was a 19-year-old and a 20-year-old lifting them to victory for the sixth time in seven games. After Filip Chytil tied the game with his first goal of the season in the […]

TORONTO — For most of the weekend, Martin Brodeur acted how he played the game — cool, calm, and collected. When it came to a speech as the Devils’ franchise goalie was recognized as a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, not so much. Brodeur’s poise is part of what made him arguably the […]

TORONTO — First were the thank-yous, then the anecdotes, then the humble appreciation of the moment. But there was also a message delivered by The Post’s Larry Brooks as he received the Elmer Ferguson Award and was enshrined into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday afternoon. “I think that the mainstream media, the mainstream […]

Filip Chytil had skated for 201 minutes and nine seconds this season before finally getting to exhale. Once the Rangers’ 19-year-old pounced on a rebound Monday night and made sure his 25th shot of the season would be the first one that found the back of the net, Chytil was free to play his game, […]

Henrik Lundqvist has seen more hockey than any of his teammates in the New York Rangers locker room. The goalie is wise enough to know that the up-and-coming Rangers (9-7-2), who have won six of seven and entered Tuesday’s off day in second place in the Metropolitan Division, have a long way to go. They […]