rangers

John Davidson couldn’t look at the television screen during the NHL draft lottery Monday night. But David Quinn did and it nearly landed him on the Rangers’ injured reserve. “I almost pulled a hamstring jumping out of my chair when I saw that ping pong ball shoot up that little shoot there,” the Rangers coach …

John Davidson didn’t wait long to begin one of the most important conversations facing the Rangers this offseason. When they got off the plane from Toronto last week, after getting swept by the Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup qualifiers, Davidson got together with Henrik Lundqvist for what the team president called a “personal discussion,” as …

First-overall pick to Edmonton in 2010. First-overall pick to Edmonton in 2011. First-overall pick to Edmonton in 2012. Seventh-overall pick to Edmonton in 2013. Third-overall pick to Edmonton in 2014. First-overall pick — who was Connor McDavid, by the way — to Edmonton in 2015. Fourth-overall pick to Edmonton in 2016. And do you know …

There might not be a frozen envelope involved, but conspiracy theories abounded after the Rangers won the NHL Draft lottery Monday night and with it the right to select consensus top pick, heralded Canadian left winger Alexis Lafreniere. The Rangers and the seven other teams eliminated from the NHL playoff qualifying round this past week …

The Rangers will have the chance to select a potential franchise cornerstone in Alex Lafreniere after winning the NHL draft lottery on Monday night. Lafreniere, 18, is a wunderkind Canadian winger expected to immediately make the jump to the NHL next season. He is known for his dazzling playmaking ability as well as his ability …

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 …

Regarding the Rangers, who under the NHL’s best-case scenario will reconvene for training camp on Nov. 17. 1. That date is closer to the end of the qualifying round than the beginning of the qualifying round was to the date the season ended. Maybe that is a primary reason the Rangers “did not pick up …

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 …