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Senators 5, Rangers 1 (AP)
What the Rangers wished for on opening night suddenly wasn't good enough when the regular season ended. New York is going to the playoffs for the first time in nine years, but the Rangers dropped their fifth straight game Tuesday night -- a 5-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators -- and blew their last chance to secure their first division title since the Stanley Cup-winning season of 1993-94.
Flyers 4, Rangers 1
New York played like it had a division title clinched already. The Flyers came out fired up like they had one to win.
Now the Atlantic Division will be settled in the final games with Philadelphia in control.
Jeff Carter set up two Flyers goals with cross-ice passes, Antero Niittymaki made 25 saves and the Flyers closed within a point of New York for the Atlantic Division lead in a 4-1 win over the Rangers on Saturday.
Malik latest to join Rangers' injured defense corps
Marek Malik joined the growing list of injured
New York Rangers defensemen Tuesday, aggravating a shoulder injury
that sidelined him five games last month.
Malik joins injured Rangers defense corps
NEW YORK -- Marek Malik joined the growing list of injured New York Rangers defensemen Tuesday, aggravating ...
Lightning 4, Rangers 3, SO
The Tampa Bay Lightning went from spectators to winners.
Brad Richards scored the lone goal in a shootout, and John Grahame stopped three shots in the tiebreaker to lift the Lightning to a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Saturday night.
"I think we watched them play a little bit at the start of the game," Richards said. "We were worried about some of their key players, and after they scored their third goal we just started playing and didn't care what they were doing.
Sabres-Rangers, Sums
Buffalo 1 3 0 0-4
N.Y. Rangers 2 0 2 0-5
N.Y. Rangers won shootout 1-0
First Period-1, Buffalo, Drury 24 (Briere), 10:52 (pp). 2, N.Y. Rangers, Straka 15 (Malik, Ozolinsh), 15:11 (pp). 3, N.Y. Rangers, Ozolinsh 5 (Rucchin, Moore), 17:31. Penalties-Pyatt, Buf (interference), 8:11; Prucha, NYR (hooking), 10:31; Ozolinsh, NYR (slashing), 12:16; Dumont, Buf (hooking), 13:17; Kotalik, Buf (high-sticking), 18:45.
Second Period-4, Buffalo, Dumont 15 (Briere, Kotalik), 1:55.
Jagr breaks Rangers' points record
Jaromir Jagr broke a tie with Hall of Famer Jean Ratelle for the New York Rangers' single-season points record Wednesday night, assisting on Petr Prucha's power-play goal against the New York Islanders.
Jagr also assisted on Martin Straka's two goals later in the first period.
Jagr, trying to hold off San Jose's Joe Thornton for his sixth NHL scoring title, has 112 points in 73 games - six more than Thornton has in 70 games for Boston and the Sharks.
Rangers back in first with win over slumping Sabres
The third period belonged to Jaromir Jagr and Henrik Lundqvist.
And why not? The New York Rangers pair already owned the rest of this surprisingly successful season.
Jagr had a goal and an assist in the third period to make two big dents in the Rangers' record book, and Lundqvist was perfect in relief Monday night to carve out his own niche in team history.
Rangers-Islanders Preview
GAME: New York Rangers (40-20-12) at New York Islanders (33-33-5).
TIME: Wednesday, 7 p.m. EST.
The names Graves, Ratelle, Henry and Bower are well-known in New York Rangers history. They may soon be replaced in the record book by Jagr and Lundqvist.
Several long-standing club records could fall when the Rangers meet the New York Islanders at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
