Rick Nash couldn’t help but keep an eye on Jimmy Vesey during the Rangers’ training camp ahead of the 2016-17 season. Here was a 23-year-old kid who was coming off one of the most publicly drawn out free-agency sweepstakes in recent memory. Vesey had declined to sign with the Predators, who drafted him No. 66 …
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A veteran hockey executive whose family helped reshape the conversation around LGBTQ+ issues in professional sports — through bravery, then tragedy — said he was left “clearly and visibly annoyed” when two NHL teams scaled back on scheduled Pride events, but believes the push toward inclusiveness will continue around the game. Brian Burke, the president …
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Read the expert take on the Blueshirts Sign up for Larry Brooks’ Inside the Rangers, a weekly Sports+ exclusive. Gerard Gallant receives reports every day from the analytics department. The Rangers head coach even reads them and surely respects the work that he goes into compiling them. But at the end of the day, a …
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A veteran hockey executive whose family helped reshape the conversation around LGBTQ+ issues in professional sports — through bravery, then tragedy — said he was left “clearly and visibly annoyed” when two NHL teams scaled back on scheduled Pride events, but believes the push toward inclusiveness will continue around the game. Brian Burke, the president …
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The approach to the March 3 trade deadline that will arrive 13 games, three weeks and four days later the Rangers resume the schedule on Monday must address deficiencies exposed and lessons learned in last year’s defeat by Tampa Bay in the conference finals. When general manager Chris Drury reviews those final four games in …
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Photo: Getty Images Once the NHL let one through the door, it stood to reason that another would follow. After the Flyers’ Ivan Provorov refused to wear their Pride Night jerseys in warmups, and their coach John Tortorella refused to admonish him in any way (nor did the official partner of the NHL in these …
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By veering from their promoted plan to wear Pride-themed jerseys for their annual Pride Night on Friday at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers turned what was otherwise a beautiful celebration of inclusivity into a story about the organization. It’s ironic that the reversed decision to forgo the special warm-ups and tape was presumably made to …
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We know that it has been said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting a different result. I’m not sure whether that definition applies to the NHL and its playoff format or to me for writing about just about annually for the last decade. Both, I suspect. I get that …
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The 60 minutes the Rangers played in taking out a pretty good Golden Knights team 4-1 at the Garden on Friday night served pretty much as a microcosm of the now completed pre-All-Star portion of the season. Because, other than recognizing the necessary stellar work provided by Jaro Halak in net, the Rangers weren’t all …
Rangers still not yet playing best hockey as second half Beckons Read More »
The last time the Rangers had a one-goal lead heading into a third period, Wednesday in Toronto, they gave up the game-tying goal with just over four minutes left in regulation and ultimately lost in overtime. On Friday, after leading by a goal at the start of the third period at Madison Square Garden, the …
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