If Rangers general manager Glen Sather is interested in reuniting with Ryan Smyth by acquiring Edmonton’s veteran left wing to bolster the attack, the feeling may well be a reciprocal one, The Post has learned.
A well-placed source told The Post that Smyth, who was drafted sixth overall in…

BUFFALO — Not for nothing, but the Rangers will take nothing-nothing down to the wire every time.
“It seemed like a grind the whole way, a game of hitting, blocking shots, coming down to the last shot,” Dan Girardi, a rock on the blue line, said after another throwback Norris-type game…

For the sixth time in six shootouts, the Rangers called on Brad Richards out of the two-hole.
For the sixth time in six shootouts, Richards, who came to New York this season with an estimable 25-for-60 mark (41.67 percent) in the skills competition, failed.
“It’s definitely in my…

The most singular weapon the Rangers have had over the last seven seasons while inexorably tilting the Battle of the Hudson toward the shores of Manhattan remained on the bench last night in Newark.
Henrik Lundqvist, the answer to the question, “Who Was That Masked Man?” as the Lone Ranger…

Carl Hagelin became the fifth member of the Rangers’ organization to gain an invitation to this weekend’s All-Star festivities in Ottawa in being added yesterday to the rookies’ roster in place of the Devils’ Adam Henrique.
The 23-year-old Swedish-born winger, who has recorded 16 points (8-8) with a plus-13…

Brandon Dubinsky started Saturday’s game in Boston on the line with Brian Boyle and Ryan Callahan, but was demoted to fourth-line duty in the third when Rangers coach John Tortorella flipped him with John Mitchell after No. 17’s deficient work on the back-check in failing to pick up…

The word for last night’s final game before the All-Star break is the same as the one that defines the Rangers through this superlative first half of their season.
That word is “workmanlike.”
“We could have approached this either of two ways, one being that we knew he had…

Rangers forward Brad Richards has been through the ultimate rite of passage before with John Tortorella as a member of the Lightning brigade that won the 2004 Stanley Cup without the bona fides expected of champions.
And as the Rangers — with a healthy Ryan McDonagh — go into tonight’s Madison…

Ryan McDonagh will be on the blue line for the Rangers for tonight’s match against the Jets at the Garden.
He suffered no lasting effects from tumbling into the rear boards shoulder-first on a shove from behind by Andrew Ference in Boston on Saturday.
Ference, who received a major…

Ryan McDonagh may have escaped with his brain, shoulder, collarbone and neck all intact after being run recklessly into the wall from behind by Andrew Ference in overtime of Saturday’s Battle of Boston, with early signals emerging that one of the Rangers’ signal defenseman was more battered than injured…