
Rangers playing ‘different brand of hockey’ in recent surge
NY Post
The Rangers haven’t wavered when describing their games for the past few weeks.
Even if the results and their placement in the standings didn’t change much, they’d improved from the lowest points of their slide.
“A different vibe,” Vincent Trocheck told The Post’s Larry Brooks last week.
And after securing five out of a possible six points during a three-game West Coast trip, the Rangers finally have the results to back up those claims.
They’ve collected points in seven of their past eight games and enter Saturday’s match against the Blue Jackets — which starts a four-game stretch against beatable teams ahead of them in the playoff race — with a six-game point streak.
“It seems like ever since Christmas,” forward Reilly Smith said Thursday after a 5-3 victory against the Utah Hockey Club, “we’re playing a different brand of hockey.”

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











