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There might not be a frozen envelope involved, but conspiracy theories abounded after the Rangers won the NHL Draft lottery Monday night and with it the right to select consensus top pick, heralded Canadian left winger Alexis Lafreniere. The Rangers and the seven other teams eliminated from the NHL playoff qualifying round this past week …

The Rangers didn’t make it too far in the NHL bubble, but they did come away with a big consolation prize — the right to select Alexis Lafreniere with the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NHL Draft. On Monday, the Blueshirts won the second phase of the draft lottery to secure the top pick …

Oh-for-three-and-out, the Rangers are still searching for the first August victory in franchise history. Emerging with the first-overall selection in the 2020 Entry Draft by winning Monday’s lottery drawing would represent a propitious time to do so. It is the 12.5-percent solution for the qualifying-round losers in the ongoing Stanley Cup tournament, each one with …

The day before they could have been starting the next round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Rangers will find out if they received a huge silver lining instead. The second phase of the NHL Draft Lottery is now set for 6 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 10, with the No. 1 pick still up for …

Zach Braff’s new tattoo is a lasting tribute to his late friend Nick Cordero. The 45-year-old “Scrubs” star enlisted famed tattoo artist Dr. Woo to create an ink depiction of Cordero, who died at age 41 in July following his months-long battle with the coronavirus. The detailed tattoo portrays Cordero dancing in a three-piece suit …

This might have represented the best of all worlds in the three-dimensional universe in which the Rangers live. For: 1) Being summarily swept out of the qualifying round, 1-2-3, lickety-split by the Candy Canes of Carolina does not erase the significant strides the 2019-20 Rangers took in transforming from lottery-fodder to playoff relevance. But: 2) …

Thanks to a previously unreleased recording, the late actor Nick Cordero will get to take his final bow. “Live Your Life,” a live album of Cordero’s 2019 cabaret show at New York’s Feinstein’s/54 Below, will drop Sept. 17, the actor’s birthday, his wife, Amanda Kloots, announced Wednesday. “Nick would be absolutely thrilled to hear this …

So if the Rangers lose their qualifying round to the Hurricanes, they will have a 12.5 percent chance of selecting first overall in the NHL draft and bringing Rimouski left winger Alexis Lafreniere to Broadway. Yes, folks, there will be a Phase 2 of the NHL draft lottery after Friday’s Phase 1 ended with a …

Is Riff Raff ready to rumble? The “Tip Toe Wing in my Jawwdinz” rapper, 38, was asked to fight in Sean Kingston’s new boxing league for rappers. But despite agreeing to box via an Instagram direct message, the deal is now off the table, Page Six has learned. Riff Raff’s rep said, “No contracts have …

Hulu has removed three episodes of “Scrubs” which featured characters in blackface, following a request by the show’s creator Bill Lawrence and ABC Studios, sources have confirmed to Variety. The episodes in question are “My Fifteen Seconds” (season 3, episode 7), “My Jiggly Ball” (season 5, episode 4) and “My Chopped Liver” (season 5, episode 17). …