Rangers not used to having trade deadline chatter surround them
NY Post
RALEIGH, N.C. — The benefit of having a core of players who have played together for so long is that they’ve shared so many different experiences they can collectively lean on.
It has been quite some time since the Rangers have been disrupted midseason by trade chatter involving major players in their own room, but the team has had its fair share of tough stretches over the years.
Last season, it was essentially the entire month of January.
The Rangers went from only dropping back-to-back games once through the first three months of the season to a four-game losing streak with two other sets of consecutive defeats in January.
Their record that month was 4-7-2.
After winning their final game before the All-Star break, however, the Rangers went on a 10-game win streak on their way to capturing the Presidents’ Trophy.
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The offseason signing of Vladislav Gavrikov became exponentially more important for the Rangers when Adam Fox was ruled out for the foreseeable future.
Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.
After leaving practice early on Monday to be evaluated for a lower-body injury, Adam Edstrom did not suit up Tuesday night against the Stars.
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The Jets won a game on Sunday, an entertaining 27-24 victory over the Falcons on a 56-yard walk-off field goal by 41-year-old kicker Nick Folk.
Patriots linebacker Christian Elliss said he was just doing his job after a hard hit on Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart sparked tension in Monday’s game at Gillette Stadium.
Dillon Brooks found himself in a familiar place Monday night — right underneath LeBron James’ skin.
Alexey Toropchenko is the latest hockey player to miss time because of a bizarre off-ice injury, after the St. Louis Blues said he is considered week to week after sustaining burns to his legs as part of a home accident. No other details were provided.
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After losing one of the top power-play defensemen in the NHL for at least the next several weeks, the Rangers are going to try something unconventional to spark their inconsistent season.