Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov took performance-enhancing drugs for several months before he died during a Russian league game in October, investigators said Monday.

So the Islanders are the worst team in the NHL, and now they’re again out with Rick DiPietro, who Scott Gordon just announced will miss tonight with a strained groin.

All of that would be reason for the Rangers to exhale, except, of course, they’re in no position to exhale. Losers of three straight, a win [...]

Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov took performance-enhancing drugs for several months before he died during a Russian league game in October, investigators said Monday. Investigators added that during his last year the 19-year-old player suffered…

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The Rangers face-off against the New York Islanders tonight at Madison Square Garden (7:00 p.m.), to close out a three-game homestand. The Blueshirts …

Corey Potter

New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that defenseman Corey Potter has been assigned to the Hartford Wolf Pack of …

Investigators looking into the death of Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov say the 2007 first-round draft pick had been blood doping for several months on top of suffering from myocarditis, a condition where not enough blood gets to the heart.
Russia’s federal Investigative Committee said experts concluded from analysis of blood and urine samples that for several [...]

Well, if Tom Renney is going to deprive any defensemen of ice time for not delivering on expectations, he’ll have to deprive them in 2009.

With Corey Potter going back to Hartford yet again, the Rangers are back to having only six blueliners, which means Renney isn’t in a position to bench anyone tonight. Michal Rozsival [...]

If the “brain-dead hockey” continues, Tom Renney is prepared to pull the plug. That was the message delivered Sunday by a coach who called out his “key people” after a deflating loss to the Devils on Saturday night.

IT’S fine for Tom Renney to call out “very key members of our hockey club who need to better,” as he did without naming names following Saturday’s 4-2 loss at the Garden to the Devils, but the head coach’s words won’t mean a thing unless he’s…