NHL

Top Seeded Rangers Will Live Up to Their Billing

5.14.12 at 2:34pm by Mike Watts

It wasn’t easy in the first two rounds. Only the No. 8 seed next to the Ottawa Senators’ name in the playoff bracket would make you think they weren’t capable of giving the Rangers a series. The Sens came hard, and the Rangers skated away with a gritty seventh game win at the Garden. The second round was a matchup with the seventh-seeded Washington Capitals, a new look team with a defensive mindset that didn’t exactly match up with their personnel. Still, the Capitals brought the Rangers to another decisive seventh game, which the Blueshirts would skate away with on their home ice. No, it certainly wasn’t a breeze getting through the first two rounds.

Good Eating in Hell’s Kitchen

5.13.12 at 11:23pm by Terence McGinley

I planned on writing a Devils-Flyers preview, but final papers/examinations got in the way. The past two weeks I have spent every waking minute of free time with my face in a book. A word to the wise: DO NOT put off research papers to the last night. But perhaps it was a blessing in disguise, I was planning on picking the Flyers in 5 or 6 games. Wait, why did I just admit that?

Rangers vs. Capitals

4.28.12 at 2:25pm by Ricky Cibrano

The Rangers emerged victorious in a hard fought 7 games series with Ottawa, and now find themselves moving on to round 2 to face the Washington Capitals.

Doc Has The Diagnosis For The 2nd Round

4.28.12 at 1:50pm by Amit Badlani

Alex Smith and Mack Rosenberg were joined by Doc Emrick, play by play man for NHL on NBC and Versus, to talk about the 2nd round of the playoffs.

Red Flag - NHL Disciplines

4.21.12 at 5:30pm by Ricky Cibrano

With an unprecedented 8 suspensions (so far) in the first round of the playoffs, Brendan Shanahan, the NHL head of discipline, has been incredibly busy. The wrath of Shanahan has been frequent and highly varied in severity so far, but is the NHL setting the right precedent by linking the length of suspensions so strongly to an injury occurring on the play?

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Hockey Insight from the InSpector

4.21.12 at 5:00pm by Amit Badlani

Kevin Price and Mike Giandomenico were joined by Jesse Spector of the Sporting News to talk about the NHL Playoffs, focusing on the matchup between Penguins and Flyers, Kings and Canucks, and other playoff series.

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The InSpector Shows Us his Hockey Clues

4.14.12 at 5:00pm by Terence McGinley

Just a few days into the first round of the NHL playoffs we've seen 3 overtime games, fines, season ending injuries, a 13-goal game, and WWE style wrestling moves. And to think we're on tap for another 6 weeks of this intensity. Two of the Stanley cup favorites are already down 0-2, While another has lost an iimportant piece for the remainder of the playoffs.

Jesse Spector of the Sporting News joined Kyle Kesses and Amit Badlani on One on One to discuss the playoff madness.

Series Preview: Devils vs. Panthers

4.13.12 at 1:29am by Terence McGinley

The Florida Panthers just ended a ten-year playoff drought, a NHL record. The team they will be facing in the first round, the New Jersey Devils, are trying to break a slide of their own.

Rangers Playoff Preview

4.12.12 at 10:30am by Ricky Cibrano

On Thursday, the top seed in the east, the New York Rangers, open up their 1st round playoff series against the 8th seeded Ottawa Senators. For the Rangers, it was a banner season, as they finished with 109 points and won their division for the first time since 1993-94, which is plenty memorable for Rangers fans. Join me as I take a deeper look at this first round matchup and breakdown whether the Rangers can avoid the upset and move on to the 2nd round.

The Home (Ice) Stretch

4.12.12 at 9:30am by Mike Watts

The race for the first seed in the Eastern Conference was initially a runaway for the New York Rangers. Enter an 11-game winning streak for Pittsburgh and suddenly there was a one point difference between the East’s top two teams with fewer than ten games to go. Though the Rangers pulled away in the season’s final weeks, the value of the first seed has an interesting past. It’s worth noting to Rangers fans that home ice advantage throughout the playoffs hasn’t sprung an Eastern Conference team to the Stanley Cup finals since the lockout canceled the 2005 season.