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Cheers for the architect of the Rangers’ only Stanley Cup-winning team since 1940 washed over Neil Smith as the 1994 champions were introduced Friday night to an adoring Garden audience that 25 years later still cannot thank them enough. This was a hearty welcome back for the general manager, who has generally been an outcast […]

The aura and accomplishment of what 1994 means to the Rangers and their fan base somehow may only have grown in stature over the past quarter-century. At least it sounded that way for those who broke the franchise’s 1940 hex by finally hoisting the Stanley Cup that June, and for those in attendance at the […]

Even having Mark Messier and his fabled teammates address them in the locker room before the game couldn’t serve as enough inspiration Friday night for the Rangers. After the 1994 Stanley Cup winners honored in a 25th anniversary pregame ceremony at center ice, the Blueshirts came up empty in a 3-0 loss to the Hurricanes […]

Stephane Matteau thought it was time to reveal what truly was the biggest goal of his life. More than 17 years after his last drink in 2001, Matteau went public with his struggles with depression and alcohol Friday, first in a published report and later in a conversation with The Post ahead of the Rangers’ […]

One member of the 1993-94 Rangers was sadly missed at the team’s 25th anniversary celebration of the franchise’s most recent Stanley Cup championship. Alexander Karpovtsev, a rookie and one of four Russian players on that historic Blueshirts squad, was among those killed in the plane crash in Russia that claimed most of the Kontinental Hockey […]

The Islanders are skating with the big boys now, having entered the weekend in first place in the Metropolitan Division, two points ahead of coach Barry Trotz’s former team, the defending Stanley Cup champion Capitals, with one game in hand. This was not the time and Barclays Center was not the place for a clunker […]

As the Rangers’ front office prepares to wheel and deal before the Feb. 25 trade deadline it doesn’t have to look too far to be reminded of one move that is paying high dividends. That would be the swap that sent Derick Brassard to Ottawa in a deal that brought back Mika Zibanejad in the […]

Former Devil Zach Parise scored the go-ahead goal, and the Wild snapped a four-game losing streak and gave coach Bruce Boudreau something to smile about in his 900th NHL game with a 4-2 victory over the Devils at Prudential Center on Saturday. The third line of Marcus Foligno, Joel Eriksson Ek and Luke Kunin all […]

There they go again. The owners, management people, compliant messengers in my business, there they go again throwing around the term “loophole” to define a business practice permissible under the collective bargaining agreement used by wealthy team ownership to sign a player. There they went again, whining when the Maple Leafs’ five-year, $58.17 million second […]

Islanders coach Barry Trotz declined to say in his pregame comments Saturday which of his two goaltenders would be starting a few hours later against the Avalanche. It was Robin Lehner, with Thomas Greiss backing up. But as it turned out, the biggest save in the Islanders’ 4-3 overtime victory was made by fourth-line left […]