New York Rangers Rumors & News

Newark Star-Ledger "Even while the Rangers have moved on in the playoffs, the verbal spat between the Capitals and Blueshirts just won't die. While appearing on a D.C. radio show with Chad Dukes and LaVar Arrington, Adam Oates was asked if he could beat up John Tortorella. The Capitals coach responded, via Adam..." May 18

Boston Herald "Chris Kreider said he stepped on the ice without any distractions Thursday night. It was easier said than done. The Boxford native and former BC star was playing in front of friends and family, and against the Bruins, the team he grew up rooting for. He was also in a place — the Garden — and..." May 18

New York Daily News "A rare two-day layoff allows the Rangers to decompress from Thursday night’s 3-2 overtime loss in Game 1 here to learn from their mistakes and calm their frustrations (read: Henrik Lundqvist). That process began Friday afternoon back at the scene of the crime, where John Tortorella walked his..." May 18

SportingNews.com "Rick Nash has been around long enough to know that he will score another goal. Two seasons ago, he went eight games without one for the Columbus Blue Jackets, then had an 11-game drought later in the year. He still finished that campaign with 32 goals. Playing 75 games in 2010-11, Nash's..." May 18

New York Post "It was so close for so long that all it took to turn this series-opening game between the Rangers and Bruins was a small shove from Derek Dorsett. It came 2:20 into overtime, and the interference call on the Rangers winger, drawn by Rich Peverley, didn’t result in the game-winning power play...." May 17

New York Post "Henrik Lundqvist, the face of the Rangers and the face behind the mask, did not even attempt to mask the bitter pain of yet another overtime defeat. This one cut to the core of the goaltender, who blamed himself, and who might have blamed anyone in sight, for the 3-2 loss to the Bruins in Game..." May 17

New York Post "John Tortorella fielded nine questions in his press conference before the Rangers’ 3-2 overtime loss to the Bruins in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Thursday night at TD Garden. None of those questions were about Rick Nash’s zero goals in this postseason, about Brad Richards and his..." May 17

New York Post "For the first time in the playoffs, Rangers coach John Tortorella decided to split up his top defensive pair of Dan Girardi and Ryan McDonagh in deference to his opposition’s depth. In last night’s 3-2 overtime loss to the Bruins in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals at TD Garden,..." May 17

North Jersey "Claude Julien’s delay in getting to his morning news conference nearly resulted in the Bruins’ coach and Rangers’ counterpart John Tortorella walking into the media room at the same time. Julien went first and was asked about his relationship with Tortorella, originally from the Boston..." May 17

Boston Herald "The hockey experts got this one right. Man, did they ever. They said this Bruins-Rangers Eastern Conference semifinal was going to be one of those nail-biting, could-go-either-way, intangibles-on-parade extravaganzas — and that’s exactly what you got for your dough, hockey fans. What, you..." May 17

Boston Herald "Henrik Lundqvist came into the Eastern Conference semifinals as the best goalie on the planet, according to many observers. And after pitching back-to-back shutouts in Games 6 and 7 to lead the Rangers to victory over the Washington Capitals, he certainly arrived here as the hottest..." May 17

Boston Herald "Henrik Lundqvist answered all the questions about another overtime loss, then sat at his stall for a long time alone with his thoughts, his skates still on. He blamed himself for not being able to stop Brad Marchand’s winner at 15:40 of overtime as the Bruins won Game 1 of this Eastern..." May 17

NESN "John Tortorella may give clipped answers and avoid tangential questions, but that doesn’t mean he can’t offer a fair assessment of his team. The Rangers coach gave a short, accurate answer when asked after Thursday night’s game what went wrong for New York in its 3-2 overtime loss to the Bruins...." May 17

New York Post "Brad Richards is used to this situation, preparing for his 16th career playoff series, but he is not familiar with the position he has been placed in. Or more accurately, the position Rangers coach John Tortorella was practically forced to put him in. For the past two games, Richards has been..." May 16

New York Daily News "The goal is to get to the goalie. The Bruins will throw bodies in waves at Henrik Lundqvist in this second-round Stanley Cup playoff series aiming to rattle the Rangers’ best player, who is coming off consecutive shutouts in Games 6 and 7 against the Washington Capitals. “It’s the playoffs,..." May 16

Boston Herald "If both the mythology and your own eyes are to be believed, Henrik Lundqvist may be longer lasting than the Berlin Wall, more rhythmic than Phil Spector’s wall of sound and more imposing than the Great Wall of China. He may have rejected more rubber than B.F. Goodrich and made more saves than..." May 16

New York Post "Here is the one guarantee about the Eastern Conference semifinal of the NHL playoffs: At no point going forward can the Rangers expect their opponent to play like the Capitals did in Game 7 of their first-round series, a contest the Rangers won on Monday night running away, 5-0. Most..." May 15

Boston Herald "Catchphrases have an expiration date. There’s just so many times you can laugh at “Where’s the Beef?” or “That’s What She Said.” Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli, whose team will open its second-round playoff series against the New York Rangers tomorrow night at the Garden, has one..." May 15

NHL.com "Yankee Stadium will host a doubleheader of a different sort this winter. The 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series will see the three New York City metropolitan NHL teams play a pair of games at the home of the New York Yankees. The New York Rangers will face the New Jersey Devils at 12:30 p.m...." May 15

New York Post "Everything was hanging over the heads of the Rangers — their expectations, their history, their penchant for pulling on heartstrings and playing the tightest of games in the most dire situations. It was all poised to drop and smash their season as if it never began. But the team that came out..." May 14

New York Post "John Tortorella spoke yesterday morning at the Verizon Center, about 14 hours after the Rangers had escaped New York with a 1-0 Game 6 win, less than nine hours before taking on the Capitals in Game 7. The Rangers had scored only two goals in three games on the road in the opening round series,..." May 14

New York Post "It can be such ugly hockey. That is Black-and-Blueshirt hockey. But it is beautiful hockey in the eyes of the beholders who advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals with their Game 7, 5-0 rout of the Capitals last night that created franchise history. They have gone back to the good old..." May 14

New York Post "It was discipline that won out over aggression, a noble approach to a game played with such merciless intensity. At least that’s the way it worked out for the Rangers, taking their first-round playoff series against the Capitals with last night’s 5-0 Game 7 win at the Verizon Center, advancing..." May 14

North Jersey "Rangers captain Ryan Callahan finally scored his first goal of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series as he stole the puck from Capitals defenseman John Erskine and beat goalie Braden Holtby with a backhander to give the Rangers a four-goal lead just 13 seconds into the third period. They went..." May 14

CSN New England "Both the Boston Bruins and New York Rangers won their respective Game 7's Monday night, and the two will now play each other with an Eastern Conference Finals berth on the line. The Bruins and Rangers will kick things off at the TD Garden Thursday night at the TD Garden at 7:30pm. Game 2 will..." May 14

New York Daily News "The Rangers intended to make a last stand Monday night and sparked something even better: a new beginning. Game 7 at the Verizon Center was nothing short of a Blueshirt rebirth, a 5-0 statement steamrolling of the three-seed Washington Capitals built on the foundation of goaltender Henrik..." May 14

North Jersey "A former Columbus Blue Jacket is carrying the Rangers' offense in the playoffs, but it's not the one they envisioned. While Rick Nash, the team's blockbuster acquisition last summer, was held off the score sheet again, Derick Brassard continued his impressive postseason by scoring the only goal..." May 13

North Jersey "1. More of the same: The Rangers were at their best this series in Game 6 in terms of sustaining a forecheck, being the more aggressive, faster-skating team and not giving up any power plays. It’s going to be hard to maintain that level of energy tonight, not only on the second night of..." May 13

Washington Post "While the Capitals haven’t been happy about the discrepancy in penalties dished out in this series, they know that they could have avoided some of the calls they received in Game 6. Of the five minors Washington was whistled for before the final buzzer – a melee broke out at the end of regulation..." May 13

Washington Post "The Capitals are quite familiar with the agony-inducing, pressure-packed contests that are a Game 7 in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Winner-take-all nailbiters where every shift and every mistake are magnified because at the end, one team’s season will come to a screeching halt. Five of six contests..." May 13

Yahoo! Sports "Legendary NHL coach Mike Keenan has signed a 2-year contract to coach Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the KHL. We’ll just go ahead and assume it’s to launch a thousand “Iron Curtain Mike” jokes. From Metallurg’s press release, about the “Canadian Specialist”: May 13 an agreement was signed between..." May 13

New York Post "Of course it was a grind, because the Rangers would have it no other way. With their season on the line and the summer lurking in the sunshine outside, somehow the Blueshirts staved off elimination yesterday afternoon at the Garden, squeaking out a 1-0 win over the Capitals in Game 6 of their..." May 13

Newark Star-Ledger "Facing elimination from the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Rangers received a fortunate first-period deflection and rode goalie Henrik Lundqvist to a 1-0 shutout victory over the Washington Capitals Sunday in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals at Madison Square Garden. Rick Nash was..." May 12

New York Daily News "Brad Richards sat on one side of the Rangers’ locker room Saturday in Greenburgh, looking miserable, tenser than the E string on a violin. Richards was doing his best, trying to be cooperative with inquiring reporters, but his answers were clipped, and the interrogation process was uncomfortable..." May 12

Washington Post "The Washington Capitals and New York Rangers couldn’t keep their frenetic pace in overtime Friday night — something had to give. The two teams traded heavy hits, end-to-end rushes and plenty of scoring chances through the first nine minutes of overtime. It was just a matter of which team would..." May 11

NHL.com "The National Hockey League moved closer to an agreement to send its players to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia during a meeting in Stockholm on Friday. The meeting included representatives from the NHL, National Hockey League Players' Association, International Olympic Committee,..." May 10

New York Post "Derick Brassard was raised in Canada and spent nearly six seasons playing in Columbus, but he was born for Broadway. Playing in only his fourth career playoff game, the 25-year-old center, who was traded to the Rangers on April 3 as part of the deal for Marian Gaborik, had his second straight..." May 09

New York Post "The Rangers held serve in this best-of-seven, but this wasn’t tennis, anyone, at the Garden last night. This was an in-your-face display by the Blueshirts; or, rather, an in-the-Capitals faces’ effort that produced a second consecutive 4-3 victory, sending this opening round back to D.C. at..." May 09

NHL.com "Sergei Bobrovsky of the Columbus Blue Jackets, Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers and Antti Niemi of the San Jose Sharks have been named finalists for the 2013 Vezina Trophy, awarded annually "to the goalkeeper adjudged to be the best at his position," as voted by the general managers of the..." May 08

New York Post "This was a different effort produced by a different Rangers team in a different kind of game than the ones in Washington that had preceded it. This was a tenacious and compelling blue-collar performance in which the Blueshirts all but willed themselves to a 4-3 victory over the Capitals at the..." May 07

New York Post "Marc Staal wasn’t sure when, or if, he would be able to return this season. The All-Star defenseman, who has been out since getting hit in the right eye by a deflected puck against the Flyers on March 5, made his much-anticipated return last night, starting in the Rangers’ 4-3 season-saving win..." May 07

New York Post "Derick Brassard’s playoff debut at the Garden was more memorable than he could have expected. The 25-year-old center, who was acquired last month from Columbus as part of the trade for Marian Gaborik, had a sensational performance in the Rangers’ 4-3 win over the Capitals in Game 3, producing..." May 07

North Jersey "As the Rangers went through their optional morning skate in preparation for Game 3 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal against the Capitals on Monday night at Madison Square Garden, Chris Kreider was a hockey world away. Next season, for the good of player and organization, that gap must..." May 07

North Jersey "As Marc Staal lined up for the national anthem Monday night, Madison Square Garden's center-ice video scoreboard showed the Rangers defenseman standing on the home blue line, and the crowd erupted into a loud ovation. With that, the fans welcomed Staal back from a right-eye injury for Game 3 of..." May 07

North Jersey "LW Darroll Powe, who missed three games earlier this season due to a concussion, left the ice appearing woozy after a first-period collision with Joel Ward on Monday night. Powe did not return after playing just 2:33 over two shifts, and the Rangers did not have an update after the..." May 07

Washington Post "The frenzy over sports is such that nearly every game can now be labeled “must-win” by someone — players, coaches, fans, media, the annoying guy in the next cubicle. But by even the most rigid standards, Monday night’s Game 3 of the NHL first-round playoff series vs. the Washington Capitals was a..." May 07

New York Post "Braden Holtby wasn’t all that impressed with his first career playoff shutout. Following the Capitals’ 1-0 overtime win over the Rangers in Game 2 of their first-round series on Saturday, the 23-year-old goaltender was excited with the result, but didn’t feel as if the Blueshirts provided much..." May 06