They should have played until they had to call another one because of darkness.
After 5-on-5 and 4-on-4, they should have gone to 3-on-3, then 2-on-2, until eventually it was just Martin Brodeur and Henrik Lundqvist tipping their masks to each other as the ovations swelled.
But that’s sort…

Boards to the left of Michal Rozsival. Christopher Higgins dutifully to the right. And only Michael Rupp, 38-goal scorer in 364 NHL games, in front of the Rangers defenseman.
“Arty [Artem Anisimov] falls down and it’s three-on-two initially, but Hig…

Boards to the left of Michal Rozsival. Christopher Higgins dutifully to the right. And only Michael Rupp, 38-goal scorer in 364 NHL games, in front of the Rangers defenseman.
“Arty [Artem Anisimov] falls down and it’s three-on-two initially, but Higg…

The more things change, the more they stay the same for the Rangers. Two seasons removed from the daily grind of checking Jaromir Jagr’s pulse, they now will go as Marian Gaborik goes.
Different personality. Different coach. Similar reliance on o…

If it is any consolation to Chris Drury, the blind-side hit he suffered from Curtis Glencross that will penalize the Calgary winger three games may not cost the Rangers’ captain that many. After having accompanied the Rangers on a four-hour-plus fl…

Mark Messier raised the profile of the hockey in the United States by leading the NHL team from the media capital of the world to its first championship in 54 years. But he might have done more for the growth of the game here by being on the losing e…

Blair Betts has a broken eye socket, for which the Capitals will be rewarded in tonight’s Game 7 by the privilege of using a player in the place of Donald Brashear. It will be a better one than the Washington goon, who put the Rangers’ valuable…

WE have only Jim Schoenfeld’s word for it that John Tortorella is remorseful for throwing a water bottle, brandishing a stick toward a fan and ending up suspended for a game in which the Rangers failed to nail down what would have been one of the…

FROM his penalty box high above Madison Square Garden, a forlorn John Tortorella presumably felt shame. Considering the ample bench experience of Jim Schoenfeld, the worst of the Tortorella’s water-bottle-firing and stick-threatening tantrum was…

CAPITALS to the right of Henrik Lundqvist, Capitals to his left, Capitals dead on. And he eyed them all. Michal Rozsival was in the penalty box for a borderline second-period hold of Thomas Fleischmann. A high-powered No. 2 seed’s season’s was…