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'The Starling,' with Melissa McCarthy, is one of the year's worst movies

“The Starling” joins Melissa McCarthy’s dud pile, which is Mount Everest next to her modest mound of critical hits.

Kevin Klein retires as Rangers pocket $3M and reset defense

Kevin Klein, the veteran Rangers defenseman, announced his retirement from the NHL on Friday, and with one more year left on his contract, he saved the Blueshirts $2.9 million in salary-cap...

Shattenkirk is a Rangers test that Vigneault can't bungle

Regarding the Rangers, who have summer work in front of them with shrinking cap space in which to do it: 1. Kevin Shattenkirk did leave more than $23 million on...

Rangers shake up coaching staff and gain a lot of experience

CHICAGO — Now that the NHL draft is over, the Rangers can focus internally, and that’s starting with a change in the coaching staff. First-year assistant Jeff Beukeboom will no...

Rangers' Kevin Klein leaning toward retirement

Kevin Klein, who was an integral piece of the Rangers’ run to the 2014 Stanley Cup final and the club’s 2014-15 Presidents’ Trophy season before breaking down last year, is...

Who's a goner? The many Rangers questions begin now

So begins the Rangers’ offseason, and all the questions that come with it. After retooling on the fly this past summer, the team compiled by general manger Jeff Gorton fell...

This is the Jimmy Vesey other teams didn't know existed

It has been more than just the play-making ability from Jimmy Vesey that has been impressive in his first NHL postseason. It also has been how he hasn’t backed down...

Where does playoff spare part Kevin Klein fit in Rangers future?

MONTREAL — Of course Kevin Klein was thinking about his future, which was only natural when the present left him wanting for attention. The Rangers, who took a 3-2 lead...

Rangers pinpoint major problem with their power play

The slowness in the Rangers’ all-around game has seeped into their power play, which has gone 0-for-10 with the team down 2-1 in its best-of-seven, first-round series against the Canadiens....

Rangers couldn't afford to play slumping Nick Holden any longer

Wonder what Patrick Roy thinks about this. Any time first-year Rangers defenseman Nick Holden’s name had been brought up this season, coach Alain Vigneault would reference the heaping praise he...

Nick Holden is Rangers' weakest link and biggest lineup dilemma

Regarding the Rangers, who come home to the building in which they have lost five consecutive playoff games dating back to Game 2 of the 2015 conference finals by an...

This young Ranger plays — and talks — like a playoff veteran

MONTREAL — This was the Rangers’ highest expectation when considering the career ahead of Brady Skjei. It was on display with the type of force the 23-year-old defenseman showed while...

Rangers veteran defenseman scratched for Game 1

MONTREAL — The first big lineup decision of the postseason was made by Rangers coach Alain Vigneault, as defenseman Kevin Klein is set to be a healthy scratch for Game...

Rangers need to figure out who they are — and quick

It wasn't supposed to be like this, a cruise for the final two weeks — even if the Rangers had been cruising in their self-made malaise for closer to six...

Vigneault balancing defense-pair experiments with winning

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It was one point to go for the Rangers in order to clinch a playoff spot, and indeed by the time the club took the ice...

Dan Girardi the odd man out in Rangers' defense conundrum

ANAHEIM, Calif. — So the first domino fell in the Rangers’ seven-defensemen-into-six-slots quandary and it was Dan Girardi sitting out to accommodate Kevin Klein’s return to the lineup for Sunday’s...

Rangers have mixed feelings about old Stanley Cup memories

LOS ANGELES — Three years later, 11 of the Rangers who suffered an agonizing five-game defeat to the Kings in the Stanley Cup final returned to the scene of the...

Any of six Rangers defensemen can be benched from now on

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — This is shaping up as the most challenging decision of Alain Vigneault’s four-year tenure in New York, for now that the Rangers’ seven core defensemen are...

Henrik Lundqvist's near return is confidence boost Rangers need

After Henrik Lundqvist finished his first practice since injuring his hip on March 7, the goalie said he felt “great,” but also cautioned that there was still more work to...

Henrik Lundqvist may return to Rangers sooner than expected

Alain Vigneault wasn’t willing to say Henrik Lundqvist is ahead of schedule in returning from his hip injury suffered March 7 against the Panthers, but the Rangers’ franchise goalie could...