michel therrien

Rangers just rooting for a Game 7 in the West

Now that the Rangers have clinched a spot in the Stanley Cup final, they look out west for the next opponent and they do have an open rooting interest. The...

Montreal coach's spin on Weise injury doesn't add up

There was at least one more move in the head games played between the Rangers and the Canadiens — and, more specifically, between their respective coaches, Alain Vigneault and Michel...

Therrien-Vigneault friendship being tested in heated series

BROSSARD, Quebec — When this Eastern Conference final between the Rangers and Canadiens is over, the teams will shake hands at center ice — a long-standing hockey tradition. That closure...

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...

Derick Brassard knows how to hurt Habs: by scoring on them

Maybe the Canadiens — as they somewhat suggested they might — should have targeted Derick Brassard in Game 4 after all. Because the Rangers center, returning after missing two games...

St. Louis the hero as Rangers win OT thriller, take 3-1 lead

It was ugly, disjointed and undisciplined, and then in one quick flick of Martin St. Louis’ wrists, all of the maladies faded. What was left for the Rangers was pure...

Therrien in hot water for Brassard comment

It has become a problem because Michel Therrien made it one. The Canadiens coach delivered a seemingly foolish statement Saturday regarding injured Rangers center Derick Brassard, saying in French his...

Rangers' Vigneault: 'We were treated very unfairly'

Alain Vigneault might be fed up with all the verbal jousting being done in the Eastern Conference finals, but the Rangers coach sure isn’t shying away from partaking. On Sunday...

Habs call Stepan update fishy, 'We're expecting him to play'

The Canadiens started this ball of antagonist rhetoric rolling early, and now these Eastern Conference finals with the Rangers have become a daily exercise in verbal warfare. Saturday at the...

Therrien ‘threat’ demands review

The NHL, which came up small in its response to Brandon Prust’s jaw-breaking late hit on Derek Stepan in Game 3 with a sentence that would allow No. 8 to...

NHL's response to jaw-breaking hit was far too soft

Two games. This is the uh, price, of an eye for eye in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Two games. This is the woeful response of the NHL to an act...