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There is no reason for Henrik Lundqvist to pull punches. So the Rangers goalie did not sugarcoat anything, didn’t try to build up his young teammates into believing they were any bit better than they really were. He told it exactly how almost everyone else saw it, that his Blueshirts were manhandled in a 4-3 […]

The saga of Brady Skjei’s diminishing confidence and how the Rangers are dealing with it continues. First-year head coach David Quinn made the 24-year-old defenseman a healthy scratch for the team’s 4-3 shootout loss to the Jets on Sunday night at the Garden. It was the third benching this season for the player whom the […]

These nights are bittersweet and tinged with melancholy. Oh, there is romance in the air, all right, but whenever the Rangers celebrate their heritage, whenever they raise an other-than-1994 banner to the sky, the absence of the flags that count the most are visible the way amputated limbs can create pain. It was Vic Hadfield’s […]

Regarding the Rangers, who will receive a reminder this week of the organization’s ongoing culture change. 1. Not only five days between games, but five days without a game leading into a swing through Florida that will feature matches in Sunrise on Saturday and in Tampa on Monday. In the good old days — all […]

SEA ISLAND, Ga. — The National Hockey League is expanding to Seattle. The NHL Board of Governors unanimously approved adding Seattle as the league’s 32nd franchise on Tuesday. Play will begin in 2021 to allow enough time for arena renovations. The as-yet-unnamed franchise will be the Emerald City’s first major winter sports team since the […]

Jacob Trouba and Adam Lowry scored 22 seconds apart early in the third period, rallying the Jets to a 3-1 victory over the Islanders on Tuesday night at Barclays Center. Anders Lee scored and Thomas Greiss finished with 21 saves for the Islanders, who have lost three of four (1-2-1). They were back at Barclays […]

Mats Zuccarello, Vlad Namestnikov and Adam McQuaid all rejoined the Rangers for practice on Tuesday — no particular surprise there. But it was a bit of a surprise to see Pavel Buchnevich skating and participating in full, just three-plus weeks after suffering a broken thumb in a game at Columbus on Nov. 10 that was […]

The announcement that Seattle will begin play as the NHL’s 32nd team in 2021-22, rather than 2020-21, and with the expansion draft set for June 2021 under the same rules that applied to Vegas, means the Rangers will be unable to claim entry-level exemptions on Filip Chytil, Lias Andersson and Brett Howden. It also means, […]

Click:HP1501 BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Here is the truism that makes Rangers brass smile, and affords it the ability to not rush anyone up the defensive pipeline. “I’m a big believer that you can never have enough defensemen, because they always seem to be the ones that [get hurt] quickly because of how much contact they […]

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Alexandar Georgiev wants to play. No, the Rangers’ 22-year-old goalie has not been disappointed the times he has been sent to the minors for a stint to get starts while Henrik Lundqvist monopolizes the Rangers net. On Wednesday night, it happened for the third time this season, when Georgiev was steady in […]