It was only a red practice jersey, not quite a Broadway Blueshirt, but Sean Avery was back in familiar colors Tuesday in as sure a sign as any that the Rangers have waved the white flag. Avery skated with the Rangers AHL affiliate Tuesday.

Three days removed from their most humiliating loss in years, the Rangers insisted Monday they were ready to look nowhere but ahead. At the Rock in Newark, their past came back to burn them, and the end result was just more of the agonizing same.

Sean Avery passed through waivers like an invisible man Monday, and Tuesday, he could show up in the Rangers’ backyard, if not quite in their organization. Avery is expected to join the Rangers’ AHL affiliate in Hartford.

After giving up on the Rangers’ attempts to bring him back, Brendan Shanahan moved on and signed with the Devils. The Devils host the Rangers on Monday night at the Rock in Newark in an Atlantic Division game that has both teams desperate for a win.

In an attempt to expunge the taste of their worst defeat of the season, the Rangers on Monday night return to the scene of their second-worst beating.

With the Rangers licking their wounds from a humiliating loss in Dallas that looked suspiciously like a players’ referendum on their coach, a player who has been a Blueshirt savior once before went on the market Saturday.

With the Rangers licking their wounds from a humiliating loss in Dallas that looked suspiciously like a players’ referendum on their coach, a player who has been a Blueshirt savior once before went on the market Saturday.

The Rangers turned in an absent, yielding and flat-out inexcusable performance Friday night, and were punished with their worst loss of the season - 10-2 - at the hands of the Dallas Stars at the American Airlines Center. Dallas scored six goals in the third period.

Exiled Sean Avery is preparing to take the first steps toward a return to the NHL, and the buzz around the Rangers Friday was about whether the Grate One’s new path will lead back to Broadway.

The Rangers turned in an absent, yielding and flat-out inexcusable performance Friday night, and were punished with their worst loss of the season - 10-2 - at the hands of the Dallas Stars at the American Airlines Center. Dallas scored six goals in the third period.