Maybe it was a big Swedish conspiracy.
Or maybe the Swedes just simply stick together, as they did last night in the NHL’s All-Star draft. With Rangers’ goalie Henrik Lundqvist being an assistant captain to fellow countryman Daniel Alfredsson, they selected yet another Swede, Senators’ defenseman Erik Karlsson, with…

Stu Bickel got in a fight, then he got stapled to the bench.
With the Rangers coming out of the gate flat-footed in the first period of Thursday night’s 4-1 loss to the Penguins at Madison Square Garden, Bickel decided he needed to change the momentum. So 8:56…

The Rangers played last night’s game against the Penguins in waves. In the end, the troughs far outweighed the crests, the result being a 4-1 loss in front of a sold-out Madison Square Garden.
“Our team has to understand if you’re going to have a record like we…

No longer can the Winter Classic be considered a distraction.
Finally, after months of anticipation, the next game the Rangers play is tomorrow afternoon’s annual outdoor game, being held at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia against the Flyers.
“We’re really looking forward to it,” coach John Tortorella said…

SUNRISE, Fla. — When Michael Del Zotto’s stick ended up getting into the face of Tomas Kopecky with 10 seconds left in last night’s 4-1 Rangers’ win, it looked like a hard hockey play. It was certainly a crosscheck, and a high one at that, but a hockey…

SUNRISE, Fla. — How’s this for squashing a bad feeling, for not looking ahead, for a midseason display of who is for real atop the Eastern Conference?
With three days before they will be on the grandest stage in the NHL, the Rangers got out to the fastest start of…

OTTAWA — The heart is no surprise, but the head of this Rangers team last night was surely the 21-year-old kid from Hastings, Minn., with no shoulders but enough hockey sense to make up for handful of forwards skating in mud.
The 3-2 win over the Senators came by way…

OTTAWA — It was tough to count all of the different linemates Brad Richards played with last night during the Rangers’ 3-2 win over the Senators, but the unofficial count is four.
Richards started the game on the line he has been with for a while, between Brandon Dubinsky and…

The blue seats might no longer be blue, and the blood of the people close to the glass may be more so, but the happy embrace of the Garden’s transformation lasted just about one period during the Rangers’ 4-2 loss to the Maple Leafs last night.
It was the…

Marty Turco was a 35-year-old goalie last season, about a half decade removed from being one of the best in the league. He was getting paid $1.3 million in hopes that he could give the Chicago Blackhawks a chance to repeat as Stanley Cup champions.
Just over 20 games…