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The Rangers didn’t make it too far in the NHL bubble, but they did come away with a big consolation prize — the right to select Alexis Lafreniere with the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NHL Draft. On Monday, the Blueshirts won the second phase of the draft lottery to secure the top pick …

Oh-for-three-and-out, the Rangers are still searching for the first August victory in franchise history. Emerging with the first-overall selection in the 2020 Entry Draft by winning Monday’s lottery drawing would represent a propitious time to do so. It is the 12.5-percent solution for the qualifying-round losers in the ongoing Stanley Cup tournament, each one with …

Let me be the first to observe that there has never been a week like this in NHL history. The teams that finished 22nd, 23rd and 24th in the overall standings are in the Stanley Cup playoffs ,and a team that finished in the top 10 is alive in the lottery for the first-overall draft …

TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs rallied from a three-goal deficit in the third period and Auston Matthews scored on a power play 13:10 into overtime to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 on Friday night, tying the best-of-five qualifying series at two wins apiece. The Leafs scored three times in 3:34 to knot the …

The day before they could have been starting the next round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Rangers will find out if they received a huge silver lining instead. The second phase of the NHL Draft Lottery is now set for 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 10, with the No. 1 pick still up for …

This might have represented the best of all worlds in the three-dimensional universe in which the Rangers live. For: 1) Being summarily swept out of the qualifying round, 1-2-3, lickety-split by the Candy Canes of Carolina does not erase the significant strides the 2019-20 Rangers took in transforming from lottery-fodder to playoff relevance. But: 2) …

TORONTO — Auston Matthews and John Tavares scored and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-0 on Tuesday to even their best-of-five qualifying series at one game. Toronto defenseman Jake Muzzin was taken off the ice on a stretcher with 1:52 left in the game after his head made contact with Columbus’ …

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 …

Release the Kraken. CEO and Seattle team president Tod Leiweke opened up a special press conference Thursday by revealing the name of the NHL’s 32nd franchise: The Seattle Kraken. In a live broadcast from the construction site of Climate Pledge Arena, which will eventually be the Kraken’s home, Leiweke invited hundreds of construction workers to …