If the Rangers learned anything at all from their four-game sweep over the hapless Devils, it was that they simply have no wiggle room if they are to stay in the playoff race. Four straight wins gaine
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... ision, beat the Buffalo Sabres, 2-0 in Buffalo, to widen their lead over the Rangers to six points. The Rangers have 10 games remaining; the Bruins have 12. Trou ...
Even in a 56-game sprint, the Islanders’ journey has grown a bit stale. They ebb and flow, struggle to score, add veterans, do a standings dance with the Capitals and Penguins and . . . just wake us i
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... Lafreniere #13 of the New York Rangers carries the puck against the New York Islanders at Nassau Coliseum on April 9, 2021. Credit: Getty Images/Bruce Bennett But ...
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... ecently signed, not-yet-in-the-lineup Zac Jones is 20. You get the idea. The Rangers have leaned on their veterans lately, and coach David Quinn has been careful ...
The Rangers did what they needed to do against New Jersey, which was to take the maximum eight points from four games against a stripped-down Devils club that became the youngest team in the NHL after
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... off race by four points, 56-52. Boston has two more games remaining than the Rangers do. The Rangers and Bruins play each other in the final two games of the reg ...
With Igor Shesterkin having started Saturday’s game at Madison Square Garden, Rangers coach David Quinn opted to start Alexandar Georgiev in goal Sunday for the second game of the back-to-back weekend
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... he saw until he went down to stop one from Devils rookie Ty Smith, while the Rangers were killing a penalty. He couldn’t get up after that, and called to the Ran ...
The day after Pavel Buchnevich became the first Rangers player to score a hat trick on his birthday, Mika Zibanejad came up just as huge for the Rangers on his birthday. The now 28-year-old Zibanejad
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... lackwood’s right shoulder and in for his 16th goal of the season to give the Rangers a 4-3 lead. Strome was credited with an empty-net goal at 19:35 when he was ...
Chris Kreider had gone nine games without a goal before he scored into an empty net Saturday, the final goal of the Rangers’ 6-3 win over the Devils at Madison Square Garden. Coach David Quinn put Kre
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... ing, with Artemi Panarin and Ryan Strome, with the Devils’ net empty and the Rangers already having scored an empty-netter, by Pavel Buchnevich. Strome and Ryan ...
Are they going the make the playoffs? It’s the first question — the only question, really — casual observers ask about the Rangers, who have 12 games left in the regular season after Saturday’s 6-3 wi
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... rst things first, there is an expansion draft coming up this summer, and the Rangers will lose one player off the roster to the incoming Seattle Kraken. Most of ...
Game three of the Rangers’ four-game series against the Devils was on the way to being another blowout until Devils forward Nathan Bastian skated into Rangers goalie Igor Shesterkin after Shesterkin c
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... ick, and slumping Chris Kreider added an empty-netter of his own to give the Rangers a 6-3 win, their third straight over the Devils. The teams play each other a ...
The NHL continues to award two points for each victory over the Devils, and for as long as that remains the case, it is incumbent upon the Rangers to collect those points. As those two teams are in th
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... nything. The Rangers are doing the best they can to forget that the Devils are awful, having lost ...
For the past few days, Rangers coach David Quinn has spent a lot of time trying to get the message across that his team had better not take the lowly Devils lightly. "I know they may not have a lot of
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... e-timed a pass from Strome on a two-on-one break at 12:00 of the period. The Rangers outshot the Devils 10-3 in the first period. They outshot the Devils 17-9 in ...
Defenseman Zac Jones, whom the Rangers signed to an entry level contract this week, just days after he won an NCAA championship with UMass, practiced with the full team for the first time at Thursday’
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... lin Stephenson Updated April 15, 2021 5:16 PM Defenseman Zac Jones, whom the Rangers signed to an entry level contract this week, just days after he won an NCAA ...
Jacob Trouba didn’t want to talk much about his message to his Rangers teammates in the second intermission of Tuesday’s win over the Devils in Newark. "We just didn't like our second period, and I th
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... But Trouba, Quinn said, rallied the troops, and the Rangers played much better in the third and ended up winning, 3-0. "Sometimes, when ...
In his last 15 games, Mika Zibanejad has scored 12 goals with 10 assists, and the Rangers are 9-4-2 in that stretch. In his first 15 games, Zibanejad scored one goal with two assists. The Rangers were
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... his shooting percentage is 12.5. Blue notes The four-game series between the Rangers and Devils shifts to Madison Square Garden for the next two games, Thursday ...
Artemi Panarin knew he had played in his 100th game as a Ranger on Tuesday night, but he had no idea that his goal in the third period of the Rangers’ 3-0 win over the Devils actually put him in the t
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... or my partners, who helped me get to this point.’’ "He’s a special player,’’ Rangers coach David Quinn said. "At key times, he makes key plays. There are not a l ...
