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Players aren’t supposed to lose lineup spots because of injury, but sometimes that’s just the way it goes. At least, that’s what has happened with Islanders defenseman Thomas Hickey, who went from a top-four stalwart to now having to battle to get back in after missing 10 weeks following a concussion suffered on Dec. 17. […]

The Rangers have lost 2,795 games throughout their 92-season history, and in many, many different ways, but never had they lost one on Rule 25.4. Until Sunday afternoon, that is, when Alex Ovechkin was awarded a decisive shootout goal to give the Caps a 3-2 victory at the Garden when Alex Georgiev threw his stick […]

The Islanders had gone nearly three months without losing successive games in regulation, and more than six weeks owning at least a share of first place in the suddenly tightening Metropolitan Division. Both of those impressive, if wholly unexpected, accomplishments fell by the wayside in Sunday’s ugly 4-1 loss to the Flyers at the Coliseum. […]

Same number 72 on the back of his jersey. Same name, too. But perhaps a different player? Coach David Quinn thinks so. And so to a certain extent, so does Filip Chytil himself. “It seems in the week he’s been out, it’s been a different Filip Chytil,” Quinn said after reinserting the winger into the […]

Robin Lehner has been a revelation on the ice, helping to pen a compelling tale for himself and the Islanders. But Lehner was pulled from the net for the first time this season after allowing three goals on 13 shots by the 3:18 mark of the second period in Sunday’s 4-1 loss to the Flyers […]

It sure sounded nice when Lou Lamoriello came out and said how much he believes in this Islanders group, and how, as team president, not making any moves before the Feb. 25 trade deadline was his vote of confidence. Oh, the players ate it up, reveling in their first-place standing and the slack-jawed reactions of […]

The Rangers have done this half as many times as they have won the Stanley Cup, so the math is easy enough for a kindergartner. Twice have the Blueshirts gone wire to wire playing without a captain — this and 2005-06 the seasons. Henrik Lundqvist is the only player here for both of them. “This […]

Brendan Smith has great memories of the time he spent as a Red Wing with the legendary Ted Lindsay, the eight-time, first-team NHL All-Star, four-time Cup winner and father of the NHLPA who died Monday in his Michigan home at the age of 93. “A magnificent man,” said Smith, who spent the first seven years […]

Vitali Kravtsov’s Traktor Chelyabinsk club was swept out of the first round of the KHL playoffs by Avtomobilist on Monday, but it is unclear whether the Rangers will get an up-close and personal look at their 2018 first-rounder by bringing him to North America before the season ends. Kravtsov, who turned 19 two days before […]

DALLAS — Once the trade finally happened, Mats Zuccarello was looking forward to this day, when he would get to see his old teammates again and even play against them in what was sure to be an emotional matchup. A broken arm in his second period with the Stars derailed the showdown, but Tuesday’s 1-0 […]