So, to sum up the Leastern playoffs:

No. 1 Washington is in a Game 7 tomorrow against lowly Montreal.

No. 2 New Jersey is out.

N0. 3 Buffalo is out.

No. 4 Pittsburgh—which happens to be the defending Stanley Cup champion—is in the n…

Here’s a little game I started playing in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Play along if you like.

Name the former Rangers still alive in the playoffs (and there are plenty of them, and some just jump right off the scoresheet lately).

Includ…

There was uncertainty all year about whether John Tortorella believed in Rangers coming to the aid of teammates who had been abused on the ice. The head coach only added to the confusion by failing to give his unqualified endorsement to Brandon Dubinsky’s immediate response after Toronto defenseman Jeff…

This is the first time since 1992 that seven of eight first-round playoff series have reached Game 6, with Pittsburgh and San Jose (sigh of relief!) moving on to the next round last night.

Today’s Game 6s:
Phoenix-Detroit (Wings up 3-2) (On NBC…

And we’ve seen over the years … and heard from guys with Stanley Cup rings all over their hands … how important it can be to end an early-round series when you get the chance.

First of all, obviously, you don’t want to give th…

Some thoughts about the first series to end:

1) The NHL does a few things better than the other big-league sports, and one of them is the post-series handshake, one of the coolest things in sports, still. That’s why it bothers me when a Scott S…

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I was thinking last night, as w…

By Jim Cerny, newyorkrangers.com

It has become the norm the past couple of years that when Ryan Callahan’s name is mentioned, more often than not so, too, is Chris Drury’s. And vice-versa. The two have become linked more closely tha…

The Rangers took the Flyers beyond the end of the regular season, beyond the end of Game 82. They also beat the Flyers three times during the season, twice down the stretch.

Granted, if the Rangers had won the skills competition they’d have got…

By Jim Cerny, newyorkrangers.com

In the fast-paced world of professional sports change is the norm, whether from year-to-year, week-to-week, day-to-day, or, in the National Hockey League, from shift-to-shift.

However for the last five season…