Hartnett: Rangers Have Effectively Gotten Under Malkin And Crosby's Skin
The Penguins are headed for an embarrassingly quick playoff exit and another summer filled with questions if Crosby and Malkin don't get their act together.
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The Penguins are headed for an embarrassingly quick playoff exit and another summer filled with questions if Crosby and Malkin don't get their act together.
Given a chance to put the pressure squarely on the Rangers, Pittsburgh instead reverted back to the uneven play it's been unable to shake the past five months.
It was the Rangers that had the attention of the Dynamic Radio Duo as they got things started Tuesday morning.
The suddenly vulnerable Blueshirts will enter the lion's den when they take the ice at Consol Energy Center against the Penguins on Monday night.
Based on the fact Amirante has been singing our nation's anthem at the Garden for 35 years, this news was not received well by fans of the Blueshirts.
Sidney Crosby scored twice and the Pittsburgh Penguins evened their first-round playoff series with the New York Rangers with a 4-3 win Saturday night.
Dan Girardi isn't one to sit out a game -- and it looks like he'll be good to go for Game 2 against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
When they have a lead, the Blueshirts knuckle down. They are the masters of closing out victories. The Penguins got a taste of it in Game 1 on Thursday night.
Derick Brassard and Ryan McDonough scored in the first period and Henrik Lundqvist made the goals stand up as the New York Rangers won the opener of their playoff series with the Pittsburgh Penguins.
You take a Rangers playoff win, combine it with Boomer's 54th birthday, make it a Friday and you have what's needed for an action-packed edition of the Morning Extravaganza.
When the puck drops Thursday night for the opener of their seven-game Eastern Conference playoff series, the Rangers will have been on a tear that began when they made the Stanley Cup finals in 2014.
"It's a power-play goal!!" makes me happy the way the opening notes of a Rush song on the radio do. Let's Go Rangers!! Cup or bust, baby!
With the series opener upon us, here are the keys to what should be a highly charged, emotional series.
When the Rangers were eliminated in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final last spring there were serious concerns about whether they could realistically take the next step this season. Yet they appear to be even better.
Since the first of training camp, Rangers center Kevin Hayes never acted like an ordinary 22-year-old.
