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Rangers talk of hope, but look like beaten team
The pallid faces, the sunken eyes, the slumped shoulders and the hoarse voices. The Rangers wore masks of despondency Tuesday afternoon at a sparsely attended optional practice on the eve...
Struggling Richards may be reaching end of Rangers career
It was hard to watch for the second straight game, Brad Richards struggling to help his Rangers, struggling to contribute offensively and making some glaring defensive gaffes. The result was...
Time for Richards to prove his leadership mettle
Brad Richards’ most important moments of this postseason might come before the puck is dropped Monday night. With the Rangers nursing their collective jarred psyches following Saturday night’s draining 5-4,...
Undaunted Lundqvist confident as ever in Rangers' chances
LOS ANGELES — Henrik Lundqvist had waited nine years for his first crack at playing for the Stanley Cup. In the grand scheme of things, having to wait a few...
Rangers not worrying about upcoming call on Richards
LOS ANGELES — Brad Richards has become an essential part of the Rangers’ march through the Eastern Conference playoffs and into this Stanley Cup finals against the Kings. But with...
Rangers giving this town a thrill ride — and getting a lift in return
The Rangers have made their Blue-or-die, hyperventilating fan base proud, and as they skated off the ice, Rangers in Paradise boarding a 2 p.m. charter out of Westchester for Los...
Vigneault’s crew ‘C’ Richards as true leader
Officially, the Rangers don’t have a Captain. No player has a “C” on his Blueshirt. But Brad Richards, one of the team’s three alternate captains, has earned the honor of...
Superstitious Rangers want no part of Prince of Wales Trophy
The Rangers want the Stanley Cup. Even for the time being, the Prince of Wales Trophy isn’t even a good enough substitute. After an emotional and hotly contested Eastern Conference...
This is the most important hockey game in New York in 20 years
It has been 20 years since the Rangers had a chance at home to clinch a spot in the Stanley Cup Final, 20 years since Stephane Matteau ended Game 7...
Rangers feel urgency: 'Anything can happen' in Game 7
It’s not so much what lies directly ahead, but what lies beyond it that should put a scare into the Rangers. There is little question the sole focus for the...
Lack of discipline proves costly for Rangers
MONTREAL — Brad Richards had played in 111 playoff games before, but never had he played in one quite like this one. “Nope. I don’t even know if I’ve seen...
The gift of Martin St. Louis and the attitude that got him here
Everyone could see that the Rangers and general manager Glen Sather were trading the future for the present with the March 5 deadline deal with Tampa Bay. But what a...
Rating the Rangers’ diverse array of playoff beards
As the Rangers advance in their quest to capture their first Stanley Cup since 1994, so do their scruffy playoff beards. The traditional postseason exercise in hirsuteness — where superstitious...
Rangers have shot to be next Dream Team in New York
Dream Teams aren’t reserved solely for the Olympics, or for basketball. Here come the New York Rangers, across the blue line, yearning and burning to skate their way into New...
Veterans keeping Rangers from getting complacent again
MONTREAL — For too long, prosperity and the Rangers have been about as compatible as John Tortorella and the media. Before Monday night’s 3-1 victory over the Canadiens in Game...
Rangers won't admit it, but they are now East favorites
MONTREAL — It has all changed, all of it has in the wake of the injury to Carey Price that has KO'd the Canadiens’ world-class, gold-medal-winning, franchise goaltender from the...
Richards-St. Louis bond goes back to first days as teammates
MONTREAL — The friendship began over a hockey stick. “It was my first training camp practice with the Lightning [in 2000] and I’ll never forget it, we were split into...
Rangers found bond in most painful of ways
This is the time of year when nothing is black and white, no matter how much the players want to keep it that way. Following another epic Game 7 win...
What Rangers learned from heartbreak two seasons ago
Marc Staal is one of 10 current Rangers who went through the opening two-round, 14-game grind to reach the Eastern Conference finals two years ago. Back again, neither he nor...
Big Game 7 moment for veteran Richards
PITTSBURGH — In the big picture, there was a lot hanging in the balance for the Rangers in Game 7 against the Penguins Tuesday night at the Consol Energy Center....