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Rangers may have to wait to interview intriguing coach option
Regarding the Rangers, who within 11 months have shed one head coach and 11 players from the team that lost last year’s second round to the Senators: 1. If Sheldon...
Why Alain Vigneault had to go
PHILADELPHIA — Alain Vigneault’s unprecedented, unsolicited and passionate defense of his entire NHL coaching career following the Rangers’ white-flag 5-0 defeat to the playoff-clinching Flyers in the finale of this...
Rangers fire coach Alain Vigneault
PHILADELPHIA — In retrospect, this was an act of desperation, one last grasp at something that was slipping through Alain Vigneault’s fingers. Ultimately, all the pleading wasn’t enough. The Rangers...
Rangers coach's defiant defense may not be enough to save job
PHILADELPHIA — In hockey parlance, the coach of the Rangers told everybody that regardless of the final 34-39-9 score run up against the team, he had his man. Alain Vigneault,...
Why Alain Vigneault thinks he should remain Rangers' coach
PHILADELPHIA — This was a man desperately pleading his case, having spent at least the past few days accumulating all the history, stats, anecdotes and any other shreds of evidence...
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe: Alain Vigneault calls up two for finale
PHILADELPHIA — Alain Vigneault said he was going to talk with his assistant coaches during the Rangers’ train ride to Philadelphia on Friday afternoon to contemplate the lineup for the...
Two Rangers have unique respect for retiring NHL greats
Henrik and Daniel Sedin were born on Sept. 26, 1980, in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden. About a year and a half later and 350 kilometers to the west, Henrik and Joel Lundqvist...
Rangers looking to end futility at Barclays
The Rangers are tired of losing, tired of this season, tired of playing meaningless games. But that does not mean that they are totally tired of a rivalry. The Blueshirts...
Mats Zuccarello is banged up but not calling it quits
There was a thought that it might be best for Mats Zuccarello to shut it down for the rest of the season as his foot was hurting after taking many...
Rangers GM must make a decision soon on Vigneault
RALEIGH, N.C. — This was back on Feb. 1, which now seems like a lifetime ago. Then, the Rangers were in third place in the Metropolitan Division, a position coach...
Rangers confronting this grim reality for first time in 14 seasons
WASHINGTON — This was 20 years ago. The Rangers, one point short of being eliminated from playoff contention one year after having gone to the conference finals and four years...
Why the Rangers would fire Alain Vigneault
We’re nearing the end for the 2017-18 Rangers, one point away from playoff extinction with six games to go following Monday’s 4-2 Garden defeat to the Capitals. But the promotions...
Kevin Shattenkirk not ready to call it quits on this season
This is not the same for the Rangers and Kevin Shattenkirk as it was at the beginning of the season. The expectations for an eighth straight playoff berth have now...
Don't expect Henrik Lundqvist to pack it up early
Alain Vigneault let out quite a hardy chuckle when asked if considered shutting down Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist for the eight remaining games of the regular season. “You go tell...
Rangers ready for 1st taste of exciting player in Rick Nash deal
PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Lindgren, the promising 20-year-old defenseman whose rights the Rangers obtained from Boston as part of the Rick Nash deal, is expected to make his pro debut with...
Henrik Lundqvist has scary collision in Rangers' latest loss
It is almost impossible to comprehend. Henrik Lundqvist, whose 430 victories are the most in Rangers history and the eighth-most all-time, has won four games since Jan. 20, going 3-13-2...
Vigneault resorts to desperate humor after latest Rangers loss
ST. LOUIS — It’s as if the Rangers go through waves of remembering during games that it’s beneficial to lose before professional pride takes over. After a disastrous first period...
Pavel Buchnevich's transition to life in US just got easier
Far away from home, Pavel Buchnevich had spent nearly two seasons adjusting to North American life on and away from the rink without a fellow countryman with whom to navigate...
The Rangers goalie who could be the odd man out
The future is unknown for Ondrej Pavelec, sidelined since Feb. 9 with a left knee injury and unlikely to get a game before the season ends and the 31-year-old impending...
Rangers keep post-sell-off surge going, stun Penguins in OT
There was a wide smile on Mika Zibanejad’s face after Wednesday’s wild affair, and a message about how his Rangers are playing in this strange time of turmoil after the...