Not every sports team invites its season-ticket holders to mix and mingle with players, but this week’s Season Subscriber Family Forum was all that and more for hundreds of die-hard fans. Hear their thoughts on the experience in this exclusive video.

Behind a dominating performance - and a hat trick - by their captain, and some special-teams play that no one was quite sure they had in them, the Rangers righted themselves nicely with a 5-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning.

So remember all my grandstanding about how all NHL power plays are the same and that you can’t blame Perry Pearn for not making the necessary adjustments?

What do you do when everyone wants to now give Pearn credit….for making the necessary adjusments?

That was the case tonight, when both Chris Drury and Tom Renney acknowledged that [...]

The Rangers are seeking compensation for Alexeir Cherepanov.

Citing what might be described as a loophole in the CBA, in which teams can be compensated for unsigned draft picks, the Rangers first raised the issue at the general manager’s meeting two weeks ago in Chicago.

According to Larry Brooks, who first had the story, the Rangers would [...]

The Rangers are seeking a compensatory selection in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft for the loss of Alexei Cherepanov, The Post has learned. Glen Sather raised the issue at the general managers’ meeting in Chicago two weeks ago, citing CBA Article 8.3…

So if certain Rangers are in need of a seat, or at least some time off the power play, why doesn’t Tom Renney switch things up?

“You need to show confidence in people, show faith in people,” Renney said. “There’s a time when you can’t do that anymore and you need to draw a different kind [...]

And apparently Tom Renney doesn’t believe in change. Because after a dreadful, embarassing showing in Toronto, and a dreadful, embarassing special teams performance Tuesday night against the Isles, it seems the lineup will remain the same. So let me get this right . . . shake things up after wins, and stick to your guns after losses? Okey dokey. We’ve been saying it here for quite some time now - the power play needs to be fixed or they have no chance this season. This isn’t a recent phenomenon. The power play was awful last season as well. Look at it this way, if the Rangers had scored a power play goal Saturday to go up 3-0, the Leafs would have never had the energy or motivation to go on the five-goal-in-five-minute run. If the Rangers had been able to score a power play goal against the Islanders, and not given up those two shorties, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. And I don’t care how good they have been, there is no place for the fourth line to get the last twenty seconds of the man-advantage. Freddy Sjostrom perhaps derserves a shot, but not Betts and Orr. Tonight, the Lightning come to MSG after losing to Kevin Weekes and the Devils in a shootout last night. I would say that Tampa Bay should be tired and all, but the Isles played Monday before outlasting the Blueshirt Tuesday night. The Bolts are a modest 4-3-3 on the season. The Rangers’ power play is second worst in the league, and they are still ranked #27 in offense. The good news is that Tampa Bay is the worst offensive team in the league. Actually, that might be bad news, as this could turn out to be a snoozer. HDH…

Looking to get back to their winning ways, the conference-leading Rangers face off against Tampa Bay tonight in the teams’ only meeting at MSG this season. A month ago, the Blueshirts began the year with two big wins over the Bolts in Prague.

Not every sports team invites its season-ticket holders to mix and mingle with players, but this week’s Season Subscriber Family Forum was all that and more for hundreds of die-hard fans. Hear their thoughts on the experience in this exclusive video.

The power play was front and center at Ranger practice yesterday, for obvious reasons. But despite all the scrutiny, don’t expect any strategic or personnel changes when the resurgent Lightning hit the Garden tonight — Tom Renney told reporters he…