Larry Brooks joined the Post in 1976 and has been its NHL columnist since 1994, adding the Rangers beat in 1996. He also covered the Devils and serves as a baseball columnist. The Hockey News has named him one of the Top 100 People of Power and Influence in NHL seven times, the only writer from a daily U.S. publication to receive that recognition.
As OF this moment, the net is placed on the goal line at the east end of the rink. That does not mean, however, that in 10 minutes Gary Bettman won't move it to the left circle at the other end of the rink, or that in...
September 03, 2010 12:00 AMLook, we get it. A 22-year-old making the major league minimum without any experience with performance-enhancing drugs can be knocked out of the lineup with a calf strain. But Alex Rodriguez isn't 22, he doesn't...
August 19, 2010 12:00 AMBrian Cashman gets more than his share of grief for needing so many do-overs, but the GM's moves in reconstructing the Yankees' bullpen has created a bridge to Mariano Rivera that's sturdier than the GW. It's no...
August 19, 2010 12:00 AMThe Yankees have 43 games to go, but, despite formidable competition from the Rays and Red Sox, GM Brian Cashman doesn’t believe his team should require all of them to clinch a playoff spot. Cashman was talking with...
August 18, 2010 1:34 AMThey are in a flatfooted tie for the best record in baseball following two straight defeats, which also happens to mean that the Yankees also are tied for their division lead with the Rays. And flatfooted isnt exactly...
August 17, 2010 6:48 AMJohnny Damon all but ran the Yankees to the World Series championship last season with his dash from first to third while barely stopping at second on his twin stolen bases in the pivotal ninth inning of Game 4 in...
August 17, 2010 12:00 AMIt's not about the Mets' 8-10 record at their Queens fortress since the third week in June or the 15 errors the team has committed in the last 18 games overall. It's not about the Mets being 40-59 when their...
August 16, 2010 12:00 AMMaybe morale was as low when Alan Eagleson was representing the players in a felonious manner. Maybe it was this bad when the players regretfully recognized that Bob Goodenow had been right when he told them they would...
August 15, 2010 12:00 AMThe imperfect team played just the type of near-perfect game that’s required for victory. With a complete game from Johan Santana, three hits from Carlos Beltran, two hits from Jose Reyes and no strikeouts from David...
August 13, 2010 3:55 AM
You can't call them the Worst Team Money Can Buy, because that title already has been awarded to the 1992 Mets that featured bleach-spraying Bret Saberhagen, the boorish Bobby Bonilla and the decidedly obnoxious Vince...
August 12, 2010 12:00 AMThe thrill is gone. It's just the second week of August and the Mets are already playing those games that ownership so rightfully fears -- games that don't appear to carry much, if any, weight in the standings....
August 11, 2010 12:00 AMA decade after the Wilpons passed on Alex Rodriguez because of fears that the free agent out of Seattle would transform the Mets into a 24-plus-one team, management has given still-manager Jerry Manuel a 25-minus-one...
August 10, 2010 12:00 AMThe Blackhawks had better enjoy that 2010 Stanley Cup while they can, because yesterday's circumvention ruling against the Devils and Ilya Kovalchuk means that the NHL now has license to pursue a similar case against...
August 10, 2010 12:00 AMOpening with a question to which I am certain the Rangers have no answer: What if Wade Redden is one of the team's two or three best defensemen in training camp? There's no doubt the plan calls for Redden to be...
August 08, 2010 12:00 AM
The Revised edition of the Yankees is 1-2, which simply will not do. It’s time for the team that gave up sole possession of first place for the first time since June 20 with last night’s 8-6 defeat to the Blue Jays to...
August 03, 2010 3:48 AM
It's not as if Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson and Frank Cashen, the four men formally inducted yesterday into the Mets' Hall of Fame, haven't seen days like this. And it's not as if the Mets haven't...
August 02, 2010 12:00 AMThe NHL's effort to disallow front-loaded, long- terms deals that are permitted by the collective bargaining agreement through arbitration is an attempt to legislate from the bench. Commissioner Gary Bettman and...
August 01, 2010 12:00 AMThe mistake was confus ing the Mets' inability to hit on their 2-9 trip out west with a lack of desire or enthusiasm. It doesn't matter what the sport, when a team cannot score it looks dead. Those appearances, though,...
August 01, 2010 12:00 AM
The result notwithstanding, last night is why you don't look at the percentages and determine that the Mets are just too much of a long shot for ownership to grant GM Omar Minaya the funds necessary to make a move by...
July 29, 2010 12:00 AM
About half of the crowd of 47,890 remained in the house for Alex Rodriguez’s at-bat in the eighth inning that came at 6:30 p.m., five hours and 22 minutes after Phil Hughes’ first pitch of the afternoon, and followed a...
July 26, 2010 3:05 AM
The game was there to be won and then it was lost. History was there to be made and then it was not. Mighty Alex did not strike out. He was just left on deck. All the drama that might have been, the milestone 600th...
July 25, 2010 3:08 AM
First, know this about Gary Bettman and his capricious prosecution of circumvention against the Devils and Ilya Kovalchuk -- it's personal with the commissioner, the way it was personal when he and the Board of...
July 25, 2010 1:47 AM
Not that Brian Cashman is A.J. Burnett or anything, but it’s a little difficult to believe the tale that the Yankees’ GM won’t be on the lookout for a starting pitcher between now and the July 31 non-waiver trade...
July 20, 2010 2:30 AM
This was a week during which Derek Jeter took more hits than he got, given the criticism directed at him for his failure to attend Bob Sheppard’s funeral combined with his prolonged silence at the plate. There was...
July 19, 2010 2:54 AM
These current Yankees, these men in pinstripes who have eulogized George Steinbrenner this week with quiet elegance, they don’t have the slightest idea what it was like when The Boss roamed the Stadium and crashed the...
July 18, 2010 3:37 AM
The first game of the rest of the Yankees’ lives was preceded by a soundtrack of Frank Sinatra singing, “My Way.” “My Way” as in George Steinbrenner’s Way — “My Way” as in the Yankees’ Way. Their Way, as in winning...
July 17, 2010 4:52 AM
Four days on the job, the first four days of my life covering the Yankees, and there I was in a phone booth in the back of the press box in old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, dialing the number for American Shipbuilding...
July 14, 2010 3:07 AM
The team that has everything doesn't have an eighth-inning lockdown arm to get the ball and the game into Mariano Rivera's right hand. It's the one and only significant hole the Yankee$ have entering this All-Star...
July 13, 2010 12:00 AMWhen an energy source is operating at 60 percent of capacity, that’s what’s known as a brownout. When Jose Reyes, the Mets’ energy source, is permitted to play at 60 percent of his unique capacities, that’s what’s...
July 11, 2010 2:21 AM
Tell me. Tell me the name of the stud cen ter or blue-chip de fenseman in his prime coming up on unrestricted free agency for whom the Rangers should reserve cap space and thus bypass Ilya Kovalchuk. Tell me the...
July 11, 2010 12:00 AM
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