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Coming off three straight losses, the Islanders fell behind early. They took the lead with two quick goals and then pulled away in the third period for a confidence-building win. Tom Kuhnhackl scored two unusual goals to lead the Islanders to a 5-2 victory over the Canucks on Tuesday night at Barclays Center. “We definitely […]

Taylor Hall gave the Devils just what they needed after a dismal seven-game trip — an MVP-type performance. Hall scored the game-winning goal on a breakaway at 8:07 of the third period added an empty-net tally to cap a four-point night and lead the Devils to a 4-2 victory over the struggling Pittsburgh Penguins on […]

Mats Zuccarello’s return to the fray brought a new wrinkle to the Rangers’ line combinations as the team prepared for Thursday night’s match in Brooklyn against the Islanders. No. 36 resumed his role as Mika Zibanejad’s right wing but notably was joined on the other flank by Filip Chytil, while Vlad Namestnikov worked on the […]

Practice — we’d define it as a “hard work” practice, but that would be redundant — ended, and David Quinn called his team to center ice. “How many games have you won at Barclays Center?” the coach asked the Rangers players gathered around him. Mats Zuccarello, good to go after missing the past three games […]

The season had ended two days earlier, the coach had been fired and the Rangers were in ruins as they went through their appointed rounds on breakup day at the training facility. The team, which had climbed to within three victories of the mountaintop in 2014 and had been among the league’s upper echelon for […]

For most of the Islanders players, the home at Barclays Center never quite felt like home. So any bit of nostalgia that might have come with what could be their final season playing in Brooklyn has never surfaced, not even in the hours before they defended their undefeated streak against the Rangers on Atlantic Avenue, […]

It’s as if the Rangers cross a bridge going East and suddenly forget how to win. The Blueshirts remained hapless and hopeless while playing hockey in Brooklyn, continuing their streak of never winning at Barclays Center with a wild 7-5 loss to the Islanders on Thursday night. The Islanders got the first career hat trick […]

The Islanders kept their recent success against the Rangers going Thursday night with a 7-5 victory at Barclays Center — improving to 10-1-2 over their cross-river rivals since the 2015-16 season — in a penalty-filled game. The game featured nine minor penalties and four power-play goals. One of those minors came when the Islanders’ reigning […]

Yes, of course David Quinn was upset when a Ranger was called for a four-minute penalty after doing absolutely nothing wrong. But here is how the Rangers coach described the interaction when official Dan O’Halloran came over for an explanation, having just nailed Mika Zibanejad for a high stick on Leo Komarov when it was […]

There was the feeling of sincerity in Gary Bettman’s Hockey Hall of Fame speech on Monday in Toronto when he mentioned the three work stoppages that happened on his watch. And that’s because Bettman will eventually leave behind a very complicated legacy that has both the best and worst of any league commissioner. It never […]