After dropping Games 5 and 6 to the Caps, The Rangers got their game back in time for Game 7, and battled to the end. The outcome, though, wasn’t what they fought for, as Sergei Fedorov scored at 15:01 of the third to give Washington a 2-1 win.

Hobey Baker winner Matt Gilroy, the newest Rangers prospect, saw his first game at MSG on Wednesday. Prior to the playoff game, Gilroy said captain Chris Drury and coach John Tortorella helped lead him to choose New York as an NHL home.

The season ended much as it began, with uncertainty. The Rangers came out in Game 7 with a strong effort led by Sean Avery who exemplified everything that heart and soul is about in the game of hockey, but the…

After dropping Games 5 and 6 to the Caps, The Rangers got their game back in time for Game 7, and battled to the end. The outcome, though, wasn’t what they fought for, as Sergei Fedorov scored at 15:01 of the third to give Washington a 2-1 win.

Scott Gomez knows a little something about playing in a Game 7, since he’s already been in five of them. Chris Drury has played in three more than that, but Gomez has a special edge entering tonight. He has won Game 7 on the road before — twice.

Rookie Artem Anisimov, a 37-goal scorer for the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack in 2008-09, may make his playoff debut in Tuesday night’s Game 7 at Washington. Anisimov, who played one regular-season game, was called up to replace injured Blair Betts. 

Sergei Fedorov beat Henrik Lundqvist with 4:59 left in the third period, and the Capitals edged the Rangers 2-1 in Game 7 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal Tuesday, coming back to win the series after trailing 3-1.

The Rangers and Caps are tied at 1 after the first period on a rebound goal by Nik Antropov. Strong period overall for the Rangers as they held Washington to two shots. The good: The Rangers are playing well. The…

I had the pleasure of sitting in Scotty Bowman’s office during the playoffs a couple of times when he was in Pittsburgh.

And he said this to me one day, although he probably said it a bunch of times:

“This is the only business where the…

The NHL knows what John Tortorella did in Washington Friday night when the Rangers head coach fired a plastic water bottle into the stands, inadvertently striking an innocent bystander during a confrontation with an allegedly unruly fan in the row…