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Today’s Iconic Moment in New York Sports: Derek Stepan lifts Rangers over Capitals
May 13, 2015: Derek Stepan scores the series-winning goal in overtime of the Rangers’ Game 7 against the Capitals to send the Blueshirts to the Eastern Conference Finals for the...
Coyotes trade ex-Rangers star to Senators
The Coyotes traded former Rangers star Derek Stepan to the Senators for a second-round pick in the 2021 NHL Draft, the teams announced late Saturday night. "On behalf of the...
Rangers youngster working on being 'better two-way player'
Lias Andersson is not the prototypical player taken with the seventh-overall pick in the draft. At least, he’s not that prototype anymore. That conclusion became clear — at least to...
Stumbling Rangers lose huge lead, and ex-mate delivers KO punch
Shaky teams are unable to sustain authority over 60 minutes. Shaky teams are unable to protect leads over the final 20 minutes. The Rangers are a shaky team. “We’re in...
Henrik Lundqvist 'best player on the ice' as Rangers steal one
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Understandable that the Rangers didn’t want to be overly critical on a night when they rode Henrik Lundqvist in a Wild West capper, stealing two points in...
Evaluating Rangers' Derek Stepan trade after NHL blockbuster
Mika Zibanejad, whose consecutive left-circle faceoff victories against Brandon Dubinsky led directly to the Rangers’ second and third, third-period power-play goals that fueled the club’s impressive 5-3 victory over the...
Don't buy Alex Ovechkin's bogus Vladimir Putin hedge
This just in: Jeff Sessions cannot recall whether he has ever seen Alexander Ovechkin play hockey. Ovechkin may claim, as he did Thursday, that he is not trying to be...
John Tortorella's tough love act is getting old again
Imagine if John Tortorella, coach of the Blue Jackets, didn’t have the immense respect he professes to have for Brandon Dubinsky. A year ago, as coach of Team USA in...
Derek Stepan overwhelmed by emotional response to his Garden return
It was an emotional night of tributes during the Rangers' 5-2 win over the Coyotes on Thursday at the Garden. Most impactful was the return of Derek Stepan, who had...
Rangers whip lowly Coyotes on night Stepan returns to MSG
This can be looked at two ways. First, the Rangers beat the worst team in the league, a winless group of young players, so whoop-de-doo. Or, secondly, the struggling Rangers...
Returning to the Garden, Derek Stepan has a plan for 'rough day'
Derek Stepan has a plan for Thursday. He’s just not sure he will follow it. He wants to keep the emotions off the ice when his new team meets his...
If J.T. Miller isn't instantly Rangers' next Stepan, who is?
Regarding the Rangers, just under two weeks away from Mika Zibanejad’s scheduled July 25 salary arbitration hearing: The hole in the Rangers’ middle created by Derek Stepan’s trade to the...
Rangers' top pick states case for immediate shot — on and off ice
The Rangers need centers, and they just happened to draft one with the No. 7 overall pick in the NHL draft last week. Whether that need will be immediately filled...
Henrik Lundqvist is having a hard time with Rangers' shakeup
An offseason of core-splitting featuring the buyout of Dan Girardi and the trade of Derek Stepan has struck home for the Rangers' senior and most important player. "You expect changes...
Evaluating these centers will shape the Rangers' offseason
Time and again it happened to the Rangers in the postseason. Their centers were outplayed by their counterparts, resulting in the Blueshirts coming up short of the ultimate prize. Now...
What would Rangers give up for a top-pair defenseman?
I don't believe Alain Vigneault should feel threatened by Lindy Ruff’s anticipated, if not imminent, addition to the coaching staff in place of Jeff Beukeboom, but it also would be...
The next steps Rangers should take now that Derek Stepan's gone
The last thing the Rangers should do and the last thing the Rangers intend to do is to leap head-first into the free-agent pool and dole out the kinds of...
Rangers break up core with Stepan-Raanta jaw-dropper
CHICAGO — It was hard for the Rangers to part ways with one of the core players from the most successful run in franchise history that didn’t include a Stanley...
How Derek Stepan dangle could evolve into Rangers blockbuster
Regarding the Rangers, who can do no more than hang up and listen until the NHL roster freeze is lifted on Thursday, a day after Vegas fills its roster in...
Lindberg and another early exit make Rangers staple expendable
Regarding the Rangers, as the hockey department convenes at Glen Sather’s La Quinta Western White House this week for its offseason congress: Only one team in NHL history other than...