-
The Rangers had plenty of time to think about what Saturday would look like. But Game 1 of their Stanley Cup qualifiers quickly went off-script — even before the puck dropped. Henrik Lundqvist drew the surprise start in net, with Igor Shesterkin deemed unfit to play, but the Rangers got off to a rough start …
-
Henrik Lundqvist will not be unseated from his playoff throne just yet. It was Lundqvist, not Igor Shesterkin, who led the Rangers onto the ice for warmups ahead of Saturday’s Game 1 against the Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup qualifiers at Scotiabank Arena. He was set to be backed up by Alexandar Georgiev while Shesterkin …
-
So maybe this series against the Candy Canes isn’t officially recognized as a playoff round, but it is the postseason — the postseason! — and the rebuilding Rangers are playing hockey. Raise your hand if you envisioned that as a possibility when The Letter went out on Feb. 8, 2018. You in the back row, …
-
All that anyone truly wanted out of this exhibition match was to come out of it healthy. It appears as if, after a scare, that the Rangers met that objective. For though Marc Staal, the Blueshirt with 104 games of Stanley Cup playoff experience, left Wednesday’s 2-1 defeat to the Islanders in Toronto after the …
-
The Rangers might play as few as three games in Toronto or they could play as many as 33 in the tournament if they advance to the conference finals and Cup final that are scheduled for Edmonton. Regardless of how long the team’s stay in the bubble lasts, management will be evaluating personnel in advance …
-
The son of former Rangers’ star defenseman Barry Beck was fatally stabbed over the weekend, according to Hamilton, Ontario police. Police responded to reports of a disturbance around 2 a.m. Sunday in nearby Binbrook, Ontario, where officers found the 20-year-old Brock Beck and an unidentified 16-year-old injured. Beck was later pronounced dead at a hospital …
-
You know how many teams with the Stanley Cup in the 33-year stretch from 1956 through 1988? Why, that would be seven — Montreal 16; Islanders, Oilers, Maple Leafs, four apiece; Bruins and Flyers twice each; and the Flames with one. In the nine years from 1995 through 2003, four teams took the Cup — …
-
So the number of games the depth-challenged Rangers will be without Brendan Lemieux for the qualifying series against Carolina is two. That’s the length of the harsh, but neither unfair nor unreasonable, suspension the NHL has handed down in the aftermath of the winger’s gratuitous elbow to the head of Colorado’s unsuspecting winger Joonas Donskoi …
-
Six days and two scrimmages into prep work for the tournament, David Quinn said, “I think it’s kind of a good time to reassess where we’re at and go from there,” as far as the competition to be the starting goaltender for Game 1 against Carolina. The fact is, though, that the Rangers are at …
-
Pavel Buchnevich, who left Saturday’s practice with an undisclosed ailment and did not participate in Sunday’s scrimmage, is not in jeopardy of missing the start of the qualifying round against Carolina. “I can say that is not the case,” David Quinn, who is limited by NHL/NHLPA regulations as to what he is permitted to tell …
The Rangers had plenty of time to think about what Saturday would look like. But Game 1 of their Stanley Cup qualifiers quickly went off-script — even before the puck dropped. Henrik Lundqvist drew the surprise start in net, with Igor Shesterkin deemed unfit to play, but the Rangers got off to a rough start …
