The New York Rangers' latest seven-game playoff victory came with a bonus: a much-needed break. After a hectic ending to their first-round series against Philadelphia, and a hurried and condensed start to their matchup with Pittsburgh, the Rangers now have at least a couple days off before they face the Boston Bruins-Montreal Canadiens winner for the right to play for the Stanley Cup. The Rangers returned...
PITTSBURGH -- Henrik Lundqvist turned away 35 shots and Brad Richards scored the game-winning on a power play as the New York Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 on Tuesday night in the decisive Game 7 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series. The Rangers rallied from 3-1 deficit to win the series and advance to the Eastern Conference final to meet either the Boston Bruins or Montreal Canadiens....
PITTSBURGH -- Henrik Lundqvist turned away 35 shots and Brad Richards scored the game-winning goal on a power play as the New York Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 on Tuesday night in the decisive Game 7 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series. The Rangers rallied from 3-1 series deficit to advance to the Eastern Conference final to meet either the Boston Bruins or Montreal Canadiens....
New York Rangers coach Alain Vigneault had trouble finding the words to describe goaltender Henrik Lundqvist. In Game 7s, Lundqvist is unbeatable. And so are the Rangers. Frustrating Sidney Crosby and the reeling Pittsburgh Penguins one final time, Lundqvist made 35 saves to lift New York to a 2-1 win on Tuesday night and give his resilient team an unlikely spot in the Eastern Conference finals....
(Reuters) - The New York Rangers completed a stunning comeback by eliminating the Penguins from their National Hockey League Eastern Conference semi-final with a 2-1 Game Seven win in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Pittsburgh led the semi-final series 3-1 but lost the last three games, the second time they have done so in the last four seasons, to crash out of the playoffs. Brad Richards' power-play goal in...
Henrik Lundqvist continued his game-seven dominance, stopping 35 shots as the New York Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 to reach the National Hockey League playoff semi-finals. Lundqvist, of Sweden, has won each of his last five elimination contests and he on Tuesday improved to 10-2 in his career in game sevens. Forward Brad Richards scored the winner in the second period for the Rangers who...
The horn sounded and Henrik Lundqvist lifted his arms in a mixture of joy and exhaustion. Hey, nobody said carrying a team back from the brink was going to be easy, even for the goaltender his New York Ranger teammates call ''King.'' Determined at the start and dominant at the finish, Lundqvist lifted the resilient Rangers past the rudderless Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference...
Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist has been fined $5,000 for emptying his water bottle onto Sidney Crosby while the Pittsburgh Penguins captain was involved in a scrum in front of the New York net. After the buzzer sounded following the second period of Game 6 on Sunday night, Lundqvist casually skated behind Crosby and sprayed him with water while Crosby was down on the ice. The league punished Lundqvist...
New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist was fined $5,000 by the NHL for unsportsmanlike conduct as a result of an incident during Sunday's Game 6 of the second-round series against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the league announced Monday....
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The New York Rangers have momentum, a unified locker room and Henrik Lundqvist. The Pittsburgh Penguins have two of the world's best players and a coach who could be needing a win to keep his job. Looking overmatched and overwhelmed while falling behind 3-1 to the Penguins four games into the Eastern Conference semifinals, it's the Rangers who head to Game 7 on Tuesday night looking like the team ready...
NEW YORK -- Martin St. Louis scored some big goals in his 15-year NHL career, but none were more emotional than the one he recorded in the New York Rangers 3-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 of the Metropolitan Division finals Sunday. St. Louis' goal came on Mother's Day, just three days after his 63-year-old mother France died unexpectedly. With his father Normand and sister Isabelle in...
Facing a playoff hole from which they have never escaped, and following their most disheartening loss of the season, the New York Rangers boldly proclaimed that their series against the Pittsburgh Penguins was far from over. Now the Rangers need just one more win, and the pressure is squarely on the shoulders of the Penguins, who clearly are feeling the frustration of losing control of a series that...
(Reuters) - A grieving Martin St. Louis scored an emotional goal to help the New York Rangers force a series-deciding Game Seven with a 3-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday. Playing on Mother's Day, just three days after his mother's sudden death, the right winger scored 3:34 into the game and the Rangers fed off of his raw emotion to tie the Eastern Conference semi-finals series at 3-3....
NEW YORK -- The New York Rangers staved off elimination in the Metropolitan Division finals with a 3-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 on Sunday at Madison Square Garden....
(Reuters) - A grieving Martin St. Louis scored an emotional goal to help the New York Rangers force a series-deciding Game Seven with a 3-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday. Playing on 'Mother’s Day' just three days after his mother's sudden death, St. Louis scored 3:34 into the game and the Rangers rallied around him to tie the Eastern Conference semi-final 3-3. St. Louis’ score lifted...
If Martin St. Louis wasn't a fan favorite during his first two months with the New York Rangers, he certainly became one during a very emotional weekend. St. Louis came to New York in March in a deal in which popular team captain Ryan Callahan was shipped to Tampa Bay. Three days after the sudden death of his mother, St. Louis scored 3:34 in, and the Rangers avoided elimination for the second straight...
(Reuters) - The New York Rangers staved off elimination from the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 5-1 road win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on an emotional night for right winger Martin St. Louis. The Rangers rallied around St. Louis, who had been rocked by the sudden death of his mother before the game, and put in their best performance of the series. \"You don't expect these things,\" said St. Louis....
Forward Martin Saint Louis of the New York Rangers will play tonight against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 5 of their NHL playoff series in Pittsburgh....
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- New York Rangers forward Martin St. Louis will play in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against Pittsburgh on Friday a day after his mother's death....