Rangers’ contentious Devils rivalry could get another Matt Rempe injection
NY Post
The Rangers better be ready for a grudge match.
The Devils will certainly be coming with everything they’ve got.
The two foes will clash Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden in their first meeting since their highly contentious March 11 battle.
“We gotta win. The division games are always, I think, a little bit more competitive,” Rangers head coach Peter Laviolette said after practice Tuesday. “There’s probably a little bit of, when you play inside your division more than you do anyone else, there’s probably a little bit more tension inside those games.”
The majority of the vitriol in that game, which the Rangers won 3–1, surrounded Matt Rempe.
The hulking rookie forward nailed Devils defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler with a high elbow, and Rempe was subsequently ejected from the game and slapped with a four-game suspension.
President Donald Trump seemed to confirm he once broke up an elevator fight involving former NBA great Kobe Bryant.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba — When the Rangers started the 2025-26 season, Noah Laba and Matthew Robertson were the only first-year players on the Opening Night roster.
SALT LAKE CITY — It’s easy to forget about the quiet, which in Knicks World means Leon Rose. We’re approaching five years — amazingly — since the team president answered questions from the independent media, and I’ve always maintained that’s poor practice because it avoids responsibility. If there’s no public explanation behind a move or a goal, there’s no accountability if it doesn’t work out.
PORT ST. LUCIE — The Mets’ 2025 failing (one of them anyway) might be their big strength now.
The discourse has gone on for two seasons now. But it doesn’t exactly match reality.
Where were the grownups for Team USA?
The Rangers reconvened after the Olympic stoppage wanting to find some successful combinations that had been largely absent through much of a disappointing last-place season.
SALT LAKE CITY — There was no sugarcoating an ugly first-half performance from the Knicks in the locker room, and the harsh words during the break helped spur a comeback in Wednesday’s 134-117 victory over the Jazz.
Team USA’s fate is out of its hands.
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Jasson Domínguez’s first-inning at-bat against Tanner Banks on Tuesday featured a different result and a different swing than “The Martian” had been accustomed to against lefty pitching.
Maxx Crosby isn’t looking in the rearview after a wild 24 hours.