68'S PRIORITY ONE

JAGR LOOKING MORE LIKE CAPTAIN COMEBACK

SUPPOSE THEY GAVE A TROPHY AND . . ...

Give me a guy who is overwhelmed by the honor of his Lady Byng Trophy, and I'll show you one who is overcome with joy at the presentation of the Prince of Wales and Clarence Campbell Trophies. Not a...more >

DETROIT IS IN

According to the bookies, Detroit are the favorites to win the Stanley Cup. As such, one might have expected them to be the team waiting for the challenger to be decided but it was the Penguins who made it there first. It...more >

New York Rangers

• $ATHER'S HARD LINE ON AVERY WILL COST RANGERS

  By LARRY BROOKS

  May 11, 2008 -

  THE new most pertinent num ber as it applies to Sean Avery isn't the Rangers' record with him and without him since the beginning of the 2005-06 season (60-28-15 with him, 35-38-8 without...more >

• RETURNS IFFY FOR JAROMIR & SHANNY

  By LARRY BROOKS

  May 7, 2008 -

  Jaromir Jagr said yesterday that his first order of business as an impending free agent will be to talk to, "[GM] Glen [Sather] and the Rangers; that's the No. 1 option for me."...more >

• 'I THOUGHT I WAS DONE'

  AVERY EXPECTED TO MAKE FULL RECOVERY

  By LARRY BROOKS

  May 6, 2008 -

  SEAN Avery is thinking of the future now, but last Wednesday while lying in a bed in the Intensive Care Unit of St. Vincent's Hospital suffering internal bleeding from a lacerated spleen he'd...more >

• OVERTIME AND DONE

  PENS DEAL RANGERS 2ND STRAIGHT 2ND-ROUND LOSS

  By LARRY BROOKS

  May 5, 2008 -

  PITTSBURGH - A year ago there was a sense that the Rangers' second-round playoff exit signified the start of something big. Now there is the sense that this year's second-round exit...more >

• JAGR WON'T PEEK INTO CRYSTAL BALL

  By LARRY BROOKS

  May 5, 2008 -

  PITTSBURGH - For the first time in his professional career, Jaromir Jagr is on the brink of unrestricted free agency. In the moments following yesterday's season-ending 3-2 overtime Game 5...more >

• OVERTIME AND DONE

  PENS DEAL RANGERS 2ND STRAIGHT 2ND ROUND LOSS

  By LARRY BROOKS

  May 4, 2008 -

  PITTSBURGH - A year ago there was a sense that the Rangers' second-round playoff exit signified the start of something big.

  PHOTO GALLERY

  Now there is the...more >

• CLIMB'S JUST BEGUN

  RANGERS STILL HAVE BIG HILL AHEAD

  By LARRY BROOKS

  May 4, 2008 -

  PITTSBURGH - Can we stow the talk about how, if the Rangers win Game 5 here this afternoon, then the Penguins will really, really, really be thinking about how if they also lose Game 6, then they...more >

• PENGUINS WANT TO WRAP IT UP

  By MARK EVERSON

  May 3, 2008 -

  Shut out? Watch out, Penguins coach Michel Therrien says. Hoping to ward off the Spectre of '75 by finishing off the Rangers tomorrow, Therrien wants to see that famous Rocket Richard gleam from...more >

• TOUCHY SUBJECT

  RANGERS NEED REFS TO LET 'EM PLAY

  By LARRY BROOKS

  May 3, 2008 -

  This is where we came in, with the Rangers needing a victory in Pittsburgh, and with the Rangers needing the game officials to allow them to play the kind of game that will translate into a victory...more >

• AVERY IN ICU, BUT IMPROVING

  AP

  May 2, 2008 -

  Rangers forward Sean Avery remained in an intensive care unit yesterday, two days after his spleen was lacerated during the Blueshirts' Game 3 playoff loss to the Penguins. The internal...more >