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ST. LOUIS — Johnny Boychuk isn’t known for his visually appealing goals, having scored just 52 times in 626 games covering 10 seasons. Nevertheless, his hard drive from just inside the blue line gave the New York Islanders their first lead just 11 seconds after Jordan Eberle had tied the score, and the Isles rallied […]

GLENDALE, Ariz. — This is when a long season becomes painful for weaker teams that managed to harness enough early adrenaline and belief to be at least moderately successful before Thanksgiving but just aren’t blessed with enough of the right stuff to be a long-term factor. The last few weeks have provided a flashback to […]

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Kevin Hayes didn’t feel well enough to skate at Saturday’s practice, so day-to-day may become a couple of more days before No. 13 can rejoin the lineup. Hayes, who was sidelined for Friday night’s 6-1 paddy whacking in Colorado with unidentified issues lingering from a Dec. 14 crash into the rear wall […]

GLENDALE, AZ.— It is time for Jeff Gorton to do the right thing. Time for the general manager to do what’s best for his team and for Mats Zuccarello by moving the impending free agent as soon as he gets a legit trade offer and thus end the waiting game that is eating away at […]

GLENDALE, Ariz. — It started and ended where it always does these days for the Rangers — with a bad penalty compounded by atrocious penalty-killing. Once Brendan Smith (scratched the previous three games) took a mindless elbowing penalty at 6:37 of the first, the Blueshirts were done. Conor Garland scored on a deflection in front […]

LAS VEGAS — Halfway through the first season of a dramatic and directed reset, there is no turning back for the Rangers. You can take that from CEO Jim Dolan. “The stew has just gotten on the flame, so like everybody else, I’m waiting to see who we’re going to be,” Dolan told two reporters […]

There it was, that word that is so overused it has started to lose meaning. But the most encouraging thing for the Islanders is not just that they’re the hottest team in the league but that the culture around the organization is changing — if not changed for good. “The team, I think they’re believing,” […]

LAS VEGAS — A day after observing that his team had “no legs,” there were the Rangers back on the ice Monday, practicing in advance of Tuesday’s match against the Golden Knights. But this was not a demanding skate punctuated by whistles and sharp commands and corrections from coach David Quinn. Rather, this was a […]

BUFFALO — Jeff Skinner got his 29th goal of the season and the Buffalo Sabres scored five times in the second period on their way to a 5-1 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night. C.J. Smith, Casey Mittelstadt, Jake McCabe and Lawrence Pilut also scored for Buffalo, which improved to 23-14-6. Carter […]

Justin Williams scored late in the third period and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Islanders 4-3 on Tuesday night at the Nassau Coliseum to snap New York’s six-game winning streak. Williams scored his 10th goal of the season 15 seconds after leaving the penalty box to make it 3-2 with 17:18 left. The 37-year-old flipped […]