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Kevin Shattenkirk and the scars that remain from the most damaging free-agent deals in Rangers history

There had never been a free-agent signing season like it, and for the sake of all those invested emotionally or otherwise with the Rangers, there will never be a 1999...

Glen Sather’s big mistake may have cost Rangers another Cup run

You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of...

Rangers prepping to unveil top prospect as 1st summer domino

As Rangers management convenes at team president Glen Sather’s Western White House in La Quinta for its annual hockey department meetings that commenced Tuesday afternoon, general manager Jeff Gorton continues...

Rangers' Dan Boyle sounds ready to give up

Dan Boyle may be done after 18 seasons. The graybeard defenseman wasn’t ready to make his retirement official on Tuesday on Rangers breakup day, but feels it may be time...

Dan Boyle's failed Rangers stint likely ends fittingly

PITTSBURGH — So is this how Dan Boyle’s terrific career comes to an end: in street clothes, watching from the press box? The 39-year-old defenseman was a healthy scratch for...

Do Rangers have a prayer? These 7 will decide

PITTSBURGH — Look, the way the Rangers have played, they would be losing to Florida, too, so let’s not overthink the final week of the season when management and the...

Rangers drop pivotal Game 3 because of one costly miscue

Ryan McDonagh is going to have to find another time for his Willis Reed moment. The return of the Rangers captain to their lineup was utterly anticlimactic, a surprise showing...

Alain Vigneault's benching the possible savior as Rangers sink

The last two games would have to give anyone pause about the Rangers’ prospects for postseason success. For it is not just that the Blueshirts lost potential playoff clinchers to...

Dylan McIlrath's pending return may be aging Ranger's relief

Dylan McIlrath, who missed his 10th straight game Sunday night at the Garden against the Penguins, still has not received the medical green light to return as he rehabs the...

Is this the title-caliber Rangers defense or an impostor?

LOS ANGELES — There are so many more open-ended questions with the Rangers this season than there have been in years past, and that is most evident on their blueline....

How Rangers should stack their lines, before it's too late

Regarding the Rangers: 1. Thirteen games to go, including three on this California trip that commences with Wednesday’s match in Anaheim. So that leaves five or six for experimentation through...

Rangers revert to December form at worst possible time

Welcome back to December. “I don’t know, it was kind of like back when we were struggling,” Dan Girardi told The Post after the Rangers were all but blown out...

Marc Staal's a new father: When will the veteran Ranger return?

All signs are pointing to the Rangers having defenseman Marc Staal back in their lineup for Thursday night’s game against the Maple Leafs in Toronto. Staal missed Wednesday night’s 5-3...

Rangers rip refs after failing key test vs. champion Blackhawks

There were noble attempts from the Rangers after this one to try to turn the focus on themselves, on how they just couldn’t seal the deal in the 5-3 loss...

Rangers, Derek Stepan welcome 100-year-old superfan

Derek Stepan looked up, astonished to share this tidbit. “She said she’s been watching the Rangers,” Stepan said, “since 1927.” Stepan was talking about Mila Zavodni, who turned 100 years...

Rangers get Ryan McDonagh green light: 'I'm good to go'

There was joy within the Rangers’ locker room and rippling up to the front office as it was made clear — without being made official — that captain Ryan McDonagh...

Tanner Glass hints at how he'll deal with Wayne Simmonds

Tanner Glass wasn’t trying to force the issue, but the Rangers’ pugilistic forward was just making it clear that when he steps on the ice against the Flyers' Wayne Simmonds...

Rangers missing vital ingredient and it could cost them playoffs

Expectations no longer apply. Past is not necessarily prologue, even if an old coach named Billy (Toe) Shakespeare once wrote that it is. And if perception is reality, the perception...

Vigneault's gut -- and vets -- on trial for Rangers' stretch run

It isn’t just a matter of Alain Vigneault trusting his veterans. No, it is more than that. It is the Rangers coach trusting himself and his instincts, with 1,109 games...

Rangers' deadline strategy hinges on one dominant issue

Regarding the Rangers, second in the Metropolitan Division, third in the Eastern Conference and seventh overall in the NHL at 27-17-5 as they get a jump on the NHL All-Star...