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It’s highly unlikely the New York Rangers will win the Stanley Cup …
… Not with this anemic attack, they won’t. Stan Fischler, the veteran of all veteran U.S. hockey writers, is making the bold prediction that the New York Rangers will win the Stanley Cup. I’ll counter...
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Led by workhorse Ryan McDonagh, New York Rangers hang on by their fingernails...
* * * Defence and goaltending. That’s what carried New York Rangers to the top of the Eastern Conference, and that’s what has carried them through two nail-biting playoff series, each of which...
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Henrik Lundqvist and much of the New York Rangers core were acquired through...
The New York Rangers don’t have a reputation as developers of talent. In both the pre- and post-lockout world, they’ve been viewed as a club trying to buy their way to a championship. The list of...
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NHL Lockout: New York Rangers’ Henrik Lundqvist calls for more involvement...
With the failure of mediation to break the impasse in negotiations to end the 2012 NHL Lockout, attention now has turned to an NHL proposal that players and owners meet without input from the league or...
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Will Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky be the first Vezina winner from...
Can the best netminder in the NHL be on a team that’s not in the playoffs? We’re about to find out with Goalie Bob. We’ll see if Columbus Blue Jackets’ Sergei Bobrovsky breaks through. Since it was...
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Who has the best goalie of the eight NHL teams left in Stanley Cup hunt?
Goalies have won the last two Conn Smythe trophies as NHL playoff MVP — Jonathan Quick in LA and the enigmatic Tim Thomas in Boston, once the toast of the town there, now persona non grata — and 15...
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The Pittsburgh Penguins can win the Stanley Cup with Tomas Vokoun as their...
Much has been made of the fact that Pittsburgh’s nominal starting goaltender was sitting on the bench for game one of their series against the Ottawa Senators. Marc-Andre Fleury was pulled midway...
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Goalies always a long-term project, regardless of when they are drafted
Did the Edmonton Oilers waste their time taking goaltender Devan Dubnyk with the 14th pick in the 2004 NHL entry draft? They could have taken centre Travis Zajac, who went 20th overall to the New...
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Net result: Scrivens and Fasth splitting duties working beautifully
Edmonton Oilers goalie Viktor Fasth. Goalies can get territorial about their 4’x6′ net, feeling it’s their property alone and everybody else is a squatter. Like Hall of Famer Eddie Belfour who...
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Dwight King’s controversial goal may have turned the Stanley Cup Finals —...
The Los Angeles Kings pulled off yet a third unlikely comeback on Saturday night, battling back from a trio of two-goal deficits to force overtime, and eventually prevailing over the New York Rangers...
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Edmonton Oilers’ defenceman Oscar Klefbom on the limp, out for NYR
Edmonton Oilers’ defenceman Oscar Klefbom managed to get through Friday’s 4-2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks after Ducks’ captain Ryan Getzlaf ripped one off his foot but he won’t play against the New York...
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Short shifts: Sergei Bobrovsky in line to get a healthy new deal with...
- With Sergei Bobrovsky’s contract ($5.625-million salary-cap hit) up this July, expect the Columbus Blue Jackets to work out a new eight-year deal for Goalie Bob. Tuukka Rask’s $7.5-million a year in...
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'Refreshed' Scrivens ready for challenge to be Oilers' No. 1 goalie
Edmonton Oilers goalie Ben Scrivens looks awfully lean these days. If he’s not hungry for a Big Mac, he’s hungry for the net after a poor NHL season. Scrivens was a lightning rod for fans’ discontent...
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How will Edmonton Oilers sort out goaltending picture?
When Cam Talbot was Henrik Lundqvist’s backup in New York, he knew the drill as the Rangers’ exhibition games were winding down — he was the spectator and Lundqvist the starter so the all-world goalie...
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Talbot gets his coming-out party as an NHL starting goalie
Cam Talbot says he hasn’t texted his buddy Henrik Lundqvist in New York to ask for pointers on being a No. 1 NHL goalie — a guy who’s expected to play every night of the week ending in y. Talbot got a...
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'It's the mental errors': Talbot knows goaltending goofs are costing Oilers
Todd McLellan is an equal opportunity employer when it comes to the Oilers’ netminding position. Edmonton’s head coach doesn’t care who takes the net, he just wants some saves. So Anders Nilsson will...
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Oilers hang on to beat Rangers 7-5 for fifth consecutive victory
On the night they put Glen Sather’s banner up in the Rexall Place rafters, the Oilers won all five games of their home stand, outduelling Sather’s New York Rangers 7-5 — the first time that’s happened...
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Edmonton Oilers 7-5 win over New York Rangers 'just like the old days'
On the night the Edmonton Oilers raised Glen Sather’s banner to the rafters alongside those of Gretzky, Messier, Kurri, Coffey, Fuhr and other hockey greats who made Rexall Place their playground in...
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Rangers end Edmonton Oilers' six-game win streak in a tight game
New York – There’s been much joy in Mudville the past two weeks as the Edmonton Oilers knocked off the best team in hockey, the Dallas Stars, as well as the Boston Bruins twice, the New York Rangers,...
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Hockey World: If Carey Price isn't 100 per cent for World Cup, Holtby can...
PHILADELPHIA — There’s been much gnashing of teeth in the brasseries of Montreal, and most surely the odd tabernacle with Canadiens security blanket goalie Carey Price missing for months with something...
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