Rangers prospect Tysen Dowzak’s hope of becoming a Memorial Cup champion faded on Sunday afternoon, as his WHL champion Kelowna Rockets fell to the OHL champion Windsor Spitfires 4-1 in major-junior hockey’s title game at Rimouski, Quebec.

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If there was one game out of the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals that Rangers fans would most like to forget, it was the rough, 4-1 loss to the Devils in Game 5 at the MSG. That loss, however set the stage for two glorious games that would follow.

Want the most complete analysis of the Stanley Cup playoffs as they stand right now? Turn to MSG or MSG Plus tonight at 7:30 p.m. for  ‘Hockey Night Live’, featuring former Rangers stars Ron Duguay and Dave Maloney in its group of hockey insiders.

The NHL announced the other day that if both conference finals end by Tuesday, May 26, the Cup finals would begin Thursday, May 28—in other words, one day off for the Eastern Conference winner.

If not, Game 1 of the finals would be Friday, June…

Want the most complete analysis of the Stanley Cup playoffs as they stand right now? Turn to MSG or MSG Plus Sunday at 7:30 p.m. for  ‘Hockey Night Live’, featuring former Rangers stars Ron Duguay and Dave Maloney in its group of hockey insiders.

What with the economy being the way it is and the team regressing, I am curious to know how many subscribers intend to renew their season tickets this August.
I will be polling those who read this sight three times, today, after the draft and again on July15th. I think that would present a fair picture of how readers [...]

Throughout the off-season, MSG’s popular "Fans’ Most Wanted" show will bring the best of the Rangers’ archives to fans needing a regular hockey fix. Tonight at 8:30 p.m., the show will take a look back at The Great One’s years with the Blueshirts.

Sad news Thursday night: Clint Smith, the last surviving member of the 1940 Stanley Cup champions, has died. He was 95.

Smith died on Tuesday, both the Rangers and Vancouver Canucks announced Wednesday. Smith settled in British Columbia after his hockey career and played for the Vancouver Lions of the NWHL from 1933-36 before joining the Rangers in 1937.

Smith had been the oldest living Ranger. Alf Pike, his teammate on the 1940 champs, died in March at age 91.

Born Clinton James Smith on Dec. 12, 1913, in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Smith, a 5-foot-8 centerman, scored 80 goals and 195 points for the Rangers between 1937 and 1943, and won two Lady Byng trophies over an 11-year NHL career with the Rangers and Chicago Blackhawks. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1991.

Clint Smith, who was the last surviving member of the Rangers’ 1940 Stanley Cup champions as well as the oldest former Blueshirt, died on Tuesday at the age of 95. Smith, a Hall of Famer, played 281 games for the Rangers from 1937 to 1943.

It’s Fleet Week in NYC, and I have to tell you a story about that. I used to buy tickets to all the Rangers’ playoff series because I had so many friends who always asked me for them. You had to buy strips of tickets for all possible series…