Ageless Devils come up empty vs. Jets
The Devils are living in a strange and backward world, one where they play well and lose, where they play OK and win, and where, strangest of all, older players...
View ArticleStruggling Islanders lose another one in November
It’s going to be a sour Thanksgiving for the Islanders, and that’s something they’re entirely used to. Continuing their seasonal second-month swoon, the Islanders dropped their fourth game in a...
View ArticleRangers back to .500 with loss to Jets
The day that started with somewhat silly questions about the Rangers’ goaltending pecking order ended with legitimate questions about the Rangers’ ability to be more than the run-of-the-mill group...
View ArticleNHL power rankings: Not the same old Jets
Sometimes, coaching changes are made just to stir things up in hopes that a struggling team will turn it around, even if the coach did nothing to merit being fired....
View ArticleIslanders deal MacDonald to Flyers, then win
The Islanders executed the first major step of their trade-deadline plan Tuesday afternoon when they sent defenseman Andrew MacDonald to the Flyers in exchange for a 2015 second-round pick, a...
View ArticleLundqvist ties Richter, Hagelin nets hat trick as Rangers win
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — This was a night on which the Rangers returned to wearing blue collars rather than the white gloves they had sported in losing dreary affairs this week...
View ArticleThe 10 worst losing streaks in sports history
Tanking or not, this is getting ugly. On Thursday night, the 76ers lost to the Rockets for their 26th straight defeat, tying an NBA record. Here is a list of...
View ArticleNHL power rankings: Why can’t Canada win a Cup?
The last time a Canadian team hoisted Lord Stanley’s Cup was in 1993 when the Montreal Canadiens beat the Los Angeles Kings. Since then, the country whose national sport is...
View ArticleIslanders nipped by Jets as challenging Western swing looms
Normally, in the minutes after a tough loss, Islanders coach Jack Capuano strolls out and tries to be the picture of calm, focusing on the positives in a dark situation....
View ArticleThe miserably bad NHL team that statheads secretly love
Want to witness a pile of numbers betray what the eye sees? Watch the Minnesota Wild. They are in the midst of what is being widely described as a season from...
View ArticleWeirdest NHL in-fight yields shower-soaked tracksuit, nasty injury
Evander Kane’s situation eventually was going to come to a head — we just didn’t know it would be a shower head. The defiant 23-year-old Winnipeg Jets winger was scratched from Tuesday night’s...
View ArticleMonster NHL trade could tip playoff fortunes in West
The Winnepeg Jets sent embattled left wing Evander Kane to the Buffalo Sabres in a seven-player trade on Wednesday, loading up in hopes of their first playoff run since moving...
View ArticleCarey Price is here to rectify dumbest part of NHL MVP races
When Carey Price is announced in June as the winner of the Hart Trophy as the MVP of the NHL, some out there will scoff. That tired argument will be...
View ArticleThe Rangers will win the Stanley Cup
There is no consensus favorite, no singular Team to Beat casting its shadow over the Stanley Cup tournament that begins on Wednesday. The league thinks that’s great. The league always...
View ArticleIslanders lock up first win as Brooklyn residents
There still is some feeling out to be done in the courtship between the Islanders and their new Brooklyn home, but more efforts like Monday afternoon’s, and it’ll make the transition quite a bit...
View ArticleRangers’ streak snapped as physical Jets take control
Well, they weren’t going to win ’em all. Yet this sure was an ugly way to watch the Rangers’ season-opening three-game winning streak come to an end, with a sloppy 4-1 loss to the Jets on Tuesday night...
View ArticleRangers’ struggles become full-blown crisis in another disaster
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The message coming out of the Rangers’ locker room after another sloppy performance was clear — they understand this no longer can be thought of as a slide. With a second...
View ArticleGary Bettman’s ugly arena greed meets its match in Calgary
In this time of high political debate in our country, here is one thing I can fully stand behind from our neighbors — or neighbours? — to the north. The mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi, recently did...
View ArticleThe 10 worst losing streaks in sports history
Tanking or not, this is getting ugly. On Thursday night, the 76ers lost to the Rockets for their 26th straight defeat, tying an NBA record. Here is a list of all-time skids they are bound to join, we...
View ArticleNHL power rankings: Why can’t Canada win a Cup?
The last time a Canadian team hoisted Lord Stanley’s Cup was in 1993 when the Montreal Canadiens beat the Los Angeles Kings. Since then, the country whose national sport is hockey has watched American...
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