• Henrik Lundqvist’s new Capitals uniform includes Rangers twist

    Henrik Lundqvist’s new Capitals uniform includes Rangers twist

    Henrik Lundqvist has officially moved on from the Rangers. Well, from the waist up anyway. Three weeks after Lundqvist signed a one-year, $1.5 million deal with the Capitals — ending his 15-year run
  • Rangers mailbag: What it would take to get Sabres’ Jack Eichel

    Rangers mailbag: What it would take to get Sabres’ Jack Eichel

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: the Rangers. What do you think it would take for the Rangers to pry an unhappy Jack Eichel from …
  • Henrik Lundqvist’s Rangers future hazy after ‘personal discussion’

    Henrik Lundqvist’s Rangers future hazy after ‘personal discussion’

    John Davidson didn’t wait long to begin one of the most important conversations facing the Rangers this offseason. When they got off the plane from Toronto last week, after getting swept by the Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup qualifiers, Davidson got together with Henrik Lundqvist for what the team president called a “personal discussion,” as …
  • Rangers split is the only easy part of Henrik Lundqvist’s next step

    Rangers split is the only easy part of Henrik Lundqvist’s next step

    This has been a long goodbye. A melancholy one, too. But now is the time. In your heart, you know it’s right. Henrik Lundqvist might, also. He has been The King of New York since the autumn of 2005 but, as David Crosby once crooned, “To everything, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, …
  • Rangers season on the brink after feeble loss to Hurricanes

    Rangers season on the brink after feeble loss to Hurricanes

    The Rangers’ bubble life is suddenly in danger of popping. A pair of goals in 71 seconds early in the second period sank the Rangers on Monday as they fell to the Hurricanes, 4-1, in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup qualifiers at Scotiabank Arena. They now trail 2-0 in the best-of-five series and will …
  • Igor Shesterkin’s unclear status creates Rangers dilemma for Game 2

    Igor Shesterkin’s unclear status creates Rangers dilemma for Game 2

    Igor Shesterkin was healthy enough to practice Sunday, but David Quinn said following the team’s workout that he had not yet anointed a starting goaltender for Monday afternoon’s Game 2 against Carolina. “I haven’t really decided,” the coach said. “[I’m] not sure yet whether Igor will be available.” The question is this: Is an impaired …
  • Nothing goes right for Rangers in Game 1 loss to Hurricanes

    Nothing goes right for Rangers in Game 1 loss to Hurricanes

    The Rangers had plenty of time to think about what Saturday would look like. But Game 1 of their Stanley Cup qualifiers quickly went off-script — even before the puck dropped. Henrik Lundqvist drew the surprise start in net, with Igor Shesterkin deemed unfit to play, but the Rangers got off to a rough start …
  • Henrik Lundqvist gets Rangers start with Igor Shesterkin ‘unfit to play’

    Henrik Lundqvist gets Rangers start with Igor Shesterkin ‘unfit to play’

    Henrik Lundqvist will not be unseated from his playoff throne just yet. It was Lundqvist, not Igor Shesterkin, who led the Rangers onto the ice for warmups ahead of Saturday’s Game 1 against the Hurricanes in the Stanley Cup qualifiers at Scotiabank Arena. He was set to be backed up by Alexandar Georgiev while Shesterkin …
  • Rangers vs. Hurricanes: Breaking down matchups and a prediction

    Rangers vs. Hurricanes: Breaking down matchups and a prediction

    So maybe this series against the Candy Canes isn’t officially recognized as a playoff round, but it is the postseason — the postseason! — and the rebuilding Rangers are playing hockey. Raise your hand if you envisioned that as a possibility when The Letter went out on Feb. 8, 2018. You in the back row, …
  • Marc Staal avoids big injury in Rangers’ loss to Islanders

    Marc Staal avoids big injury in Rangers’ loss to Islanders

    All that anyone truly wanted out of this exhibition match was to come out of it healthy. It appears as if, after a scare, that the Rangers met that objective. For though Marc Staal, the Blueshirt with 104 games of Stanley Cup playoff experience, left Wednesday’s 2-1 defeat to the Islanders in Toronto after the …