John Tortorella

Soon after Henrik Lundqvist, Derick Brassard and the Rangers finished off a down-to-the-wire 1-0 win over the Capitals in Game 6 Sunday at the Garden, coach John Tortorella declared Monday night's Game 7 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals as a...

Exasperation was so thick at Madison Square Garden early in the second period that thousands of fans spontaneously began chanting "Shoot the puck!" It is worth noting that they never came close to shouting, in unison, "Stop the puck!" That was all taken...

Veteran Ryane Clowe gets it. He knows that each NHL playoff series is a mini-season unto itself, with its own characteristics. Maybe like snowflakes. Or fingerprints. No two are identical. But Clowe, who has played in 70 career playoff games and has...

Ribeiro scores in OT to lift Capitals to 2-1 win WASHINGTON -- If there was no glass around the dasher boards, Mike Ribeiro might have run all the way into the stands. The Capitals veteran center slid a Karl Alzner rebound into an unguarded net 9:24...

WASHINGTON _ The season has come down to one game at Madison Square Garden Sunday. The Rangers either beat the Capitals or go home for the summer. They were put in the precarious position by Mike Ribeiro and his Washington teammates, who won Game 5 of...

The season has come down to one game at Madison Square Garden tomorrow. The Rangers either beat the Capitals or go home for the summer. They were put in the precarious position by Mike Ribeiro and his Washington teammates, who won Game 5 of the best-of-...

The New York Rangers and Washington Capitals have held serve at home over the first four games of their Eastern Conference first-round series. After dropping a pair of contests at Madison Square Garden, Washington will look to regain the advantage when...

Like metal filings pulled to a magnet, Capitals forwards are congregating on Rick Nash. "They're shrinking the zone," said Nash, the elite power forward who has one assist -- on Derek Stepan's Game 3 winner -- in four games against Washington. "To...

Speedy, stringy-haired Carl Hagelin led the Rangers in points Wednesday with a goal and two assists in their series-tying 4-3 victory over the Capitals at the Garden. Hagelin, who was the Rangers' best player in their Game 1 loss at Washington before...

In a season far different from last year, when the Rangers were at the top of the Eastern Conference for much of the way and Henrik Lundqvist won the Vezina Trophy, the Swedish netminder was critical down the stretch as the Blueshirts scrambled...

On April 25, Rangers forward Derick Brassard tweeted something both simple and elegant: "Playoffs!!!!!" In much fewer than 140 characters, Brassard summed up the way most hockey players feel when they reach the postseason. But Brassard hadn't had...

With two quick-strike goals early in the third period last night, the Rangers defeated the Washington Capitals, 4-3, to tie the best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarterfinals at two games apiece. Game 5 is at Verizon Center tomorrow night. Each side has...