End to end went Derek Boogaard.
We would have predicted that when Boogaard scored after 234 consecutive goal-less games, it would be the end of hockey as we know it. But the Capitals’ Tyler Sloan made a ridiculously casual swipe at a pick rimming the boards and the absurd became…

Wade Redden’s play was the elephant nobody talked about in the Rangers locker room, a drag on his team and every defense partner two coaches tried with him over two years.
Forced to justify a bone-headed salary of $6 million, Tom Renney and John Tortorella kept playing Redden while…

However many inches Artem Anisimov added to his chest last summer during long hours in the gym with Rangers strength and conditioning coach Reg Grant become dwarfed when head coach John Tortorella sends the second-year center out on the first shift of the power play and for last-minute protection of…

After Marian Gaborik met the media yesterday with his left shoulder in a sling, John Tortorella followed by insisting he doesn’t have both hands tied behind his back.
“Everybody gets bumped up and they get an opportunity,” said the Rangers coach, who, already facing the loss of Vinnie Prospal…

The Rangers, already missing Vinny Prospal, who will undergo a knee cleanup surgery on Tuesday, last night lost Marian Gaborik for 2-4 weeks with a shoulder separation and Chris Drury for double that to a re-broken finger.
But they called up nobody for yesterday’s or today’s practice because…

Seven seasons, three teams, and not a single Stanley Cup semifinalist.
The Rangers have been in one Conference final (1997), since their 1994 Cup, and have advanced two rounds in 13 seasons. The Devils, the last local Cup winner in 2003, have won two rounds since, and not gotten past…

PHILADELPHIA — For a team that had lost most of the races and one-on-one battles, that had been hanging onto a cliff by practically the last ounce of strength in Henrik Lundqvist’s grip, the Rangers yesterday still, at the end of 65 minutes, had the Flyers where they wanted…

The world has turned upside down.
With 10 games to go, the Rangers were seven points out of the playoffs. With one to go — after last night’s 4-3 victory at a roaring Garden to put the Flyers equally in dire need of one win — they’re one…

Winning is fun, Al Arbour reminded his Islanders on the blackboard before every playoff game of 19 consecutive victorious series.
So now that the Rangers have defied the odds and their own limitations to fight back to the equivalent of a must-win Game 6, the most important guy on the…

Hank got the yank Tuesday night after being beaten three times as clean as his coach finally came yesterday about why he did it.
“[Henrik Lundqvist] gave up three goals in six scoring chances, two of them at bad angles,” John Tortorella said. “After the [2-2] first period, I said…