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Inconsistent Rangers hoping for another Christmas turnaround

So as Christmas fast approaches, here again are the Rangers, struggling to find cohesion and struggling to find consistency. If that sounds familiar, it’s because this was the same situation...

Rangers still waiting for leader in second-line center job

PHILADELPHIA — Oscar Lindberg, Kevin Hayes and Chris Mueller, three centers vying for a spot in the opening night lineup, all failed to break out of the pack in Tuesday...

Vigneault impressed with Conor Allen’s feistiness

So there was 24-year-old defenseman Conor Allen, who starts camp on the outside looking in at the Rangers roster, battling one-on-one with Derick Brassard during a competitive drill, jabbing Brassard...

Cash-strapped Rangers set to lose Stralman, Pouliot, Boyle

Break up the NHL Eastern Conference champions? You betcha, for the combination of free agency and life in a restrictive hard-cap world will ensure the Rangers’ 2014-15 team photo will...

Moore awarded Masterton trophy after year off to care for wife

The trophy in the memory of the late Bill Masterton is awarded annually to the NHL player who best exemplifies the qualities of “perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to ice hockey.”...

Plenty of questions as Rangers enter offseason

LOS ANGELES — This was the most successful Rangers team in the past 20 years, and odds are it’s going to look a lot different come training camp in September....

Rangers don't alter lines for Game 5

LOS ANGELES — During Thursday’s practice at Staples Center ahead of Game 5 of these Stanley Cup finals, the Rangers ran out the same line combinations they used during their...

The Rangers fight for the Cup blue-nited

The road to the Stanley Cup finals for the Rangers was bumpy, took quite a bit of time to smooth out and often was littered with doubt. It weaved its...

Everybody hop aboard: Rangers bandwagon transcends hockey

The final horn groaned at 10:39 p.m. Thursday evening, and inside Madison Square Garden it was a merry mélange of color and sound and pageantry: part Times Square on New...

The top 5 moments of this Rangers playoff run

It has been a momentous postseason for the Rangers, reaching their first Stanley Cup final in 20 years. Having played 20 games in the first three rounds, they compiled some...

Ranger who returned after wife died sends team to Stanley Cup

Dominic Moore, for better or worse, has been best known as the veteran Rangers center who tragically lost his 32-year-old wife, Katie, to liver cancer in January 2013. Now Moore...

Rangers complete 20-year climb back to final

This time, there was no need for hysterics or histrionics when it ended. There will be no forever call, which is just as well: Mount Vancouver doesn’t await them this...

After 20 years, Rangers finally back in Stanley Cup final

Twenty years. It’s been 20 years of heartbreak and folly and mismanagement. Twenty years of bad calls and close calls. Twenty years of team after team and disappointment after disappointment....

No timetable for injured Stepan’s return

The Rangers were one key man down for Sunday night’s 3-2 overtime win over the Canadiens in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final at the Garden, because top center...

Questionable hit by Habs sidelines Brassard

MONTREAL — All the focus might have been on the Canadiens losing starting goalie Carey Price, but the Rangers suffered their own injury woe, as center Derick Brassard missed the...

Lundqvist exorcises his Montreal demons

MONTREAL — It might as well have been Gothenburg or the Garden. Because for once and for all — or at least until Game 2 on Monday night — Henrik...

Brassard 'day-to-day' after apparent back injury

MONTREAL — One goes down, and another steps up. In Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, the Rangers saw an important piece of their forward corps, center Derick Brassard,...

A perfect day for Rangers, Dominic Moore

The scene on the ice in Manhattan was reminiscent of the scene on the field in The Bronx in 1956, only this time it was Dominic Moore leaping into the...

How this NHLer returned after wife's tragic death

Dominic Moore sat there, bedside in the hospital, holding his wife Katie’s hand. It was Jan. 7, 2013, and Moore had been in that same position for hours. A doctor...

Moore nominated for Masterton Trophy

EDMONTON, Alberta — Dominic Moore, who personifies the qualities of sportsmanship, perseverance, and dedication to hockey, has been nominated for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy by the New York chapter...