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PITTSBURGH — Nothing has come easy this season for the New Jersey Devils. Except, that is, when they play the Pittsburgh Penguins. Then, the power play clicks. The penalty kill, too. The goals they’ve struggled to score all season come in bunches. Throw in Keith Kinkaid’s steady play in net and the gear New Jersey […]

The length to which David Quinn would go to get a point across is growing ever more clear. The Rangers’ first-year coach went to an extreme when he planned to make talented 23-year-old winger Pavel Buchnevich a healthy scratch for Tuesday night’s 1-0 loss to the Flyers at the Garden, their first game back after […]

This is not a bombshell. A fourth-line right wing getting scratched in late January by a non-playoff team cannot be a bombshell. But this is not nothing, either. Pavel Buchnevich, the aforementioned fourth-liner (for the previous seven games, at least) getting scratched while the Rangers dressed a seventh defenseman and wound up using nine forwards […]

This was a shrug of the shoulders, a lifting of the hands, a furrow of the brow. Maybe the Rangers could be frustrated, but they certainly couldn’t be mad with what was generally a dominating performance — and yet still a loss, a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Flyers (current) backup goalie Anthony Stolarz […]

Click:fugitive emission gate valve The 10-day break that encompassed the bye week and the All-Star Game came at a perfect time for Rangers rookie center Brett Howden. But his refreshed game lasted just over four minutes of ice time on Tuesday night before he suffered a sprained knee and did not return to what would […]

There isn’t exactly an overabundance of skill on the current Rangers roster, so when two of the most offensively gifted players were watching from afar, it’s not a coincidence the Blueshirts could never beat Flyers goalie Anthony Stolarz in Tuesday night’s 1-0 loss at the Garden. But there is a good chance they could be […]

Olympic gold medalist Kendall Coyne Schofield got a taste of sexism in the NHL booth Wednesday night. During NBC’s “Wednesday Night Hockey” broadcast between the Lightning and Penguins, Schofield, who worked as an analyst for the game, stood squished next to Pierre McGuire, when her male counterpart made things quickly cringe-worthy and uncomfortable by mansplaining […]

Kendall Coyne Schofield has had a few cringe-worthy encounters with Pierre McGuire this past week, culminating with her debut as an analyst for Wednesday’s matchup between the Lightning and Penguins on NBC Sports. “Tampa’s going to be on your left, Pittsburgh’s going to be on your right,” McGuire told the US Olympic gold medalist and […]

Marc Staal is one of the two current Rangers to have played for all four of the club’s coaches in the hard-cap era that commenced in 2005-06. Henrik Lundqvist was on Broadway first, of course, a rookie that season. Staal arrived two years later and has joined forces with the King playing for Tom Renney, […]

No, there was no guarantee. And this was hardly Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals 25 years ago. But Mika Zibanejad did his best Mark Messier impersonation, completing the first hat trick for a Ranger in New Jersey since the captain’s epic 1994 playoff performance, this one resulting in a mid-winter 4-3 victory over […]