Jaromir Jagr News

The paper showing payrolls across the NHL has yellowed from being tacked to my basement bulletin board for nine years, but today it helps tell the story.

LeBRON JAMES has already played his only game at the Garden this season, and it's a long way to Jan.

Marian Gaborik of the Rangers skates against the Capitals during their preseason game on September 24, 2009 at Madison Square Garden.

The fact that the Bruins are even entertaining the notion of taking a gamble on gimpy Peter Forsberg speaks volumes about their internal desperation over adding more offense to the struggling team.

Mike McKee scored 19 points and Rodriguez Sherman added 17 as Kent State held off Alabama-Birmingham 72-65 on Saturday night.

Normally an early-season visit from the Atlanta Thrashers is not a special occasion, but Thursday at Madison Square Garden was different.

The more things change, the more they stay the same for the Rangers. Two seasons removed from the daily grind of checking Jaromir Jagr's pulse, they now will go as Marian Gaborik goes.

Those holding out faint hope that Peter Forsberg might try one last comeback with the Flyers will be discouraged to learn he might be headed to Russia instead.

Tom Renney would have liked to chat with a number of his former players after either the Rangers' practice on Wednesday or yesterday's morning skate, but the one-time Blueshirts' coach, who was dismissed last winter following a four-season run in which he played a primary role in restoring pride in and credibility to the program, didn't think it ...

The Rangers are among the handful of NHL teams watching Peter Forsberg very closely when the 36-year-old free-agent center tests his chronically injured right foot in the Karjala Cup tournament that opens today in Sweden and will conclude over the weekend in Finland, The Post has learned.

John Tavares notched a third-period insurance goal and Dwayne Roloson stopped 34 shots as the New York Islanders downed the New York Rangers, 3-1, at Nassau Coliseum.

New York Rangers forward Marian Gaborik will sit out Wednesday's game against the New York Islanders with an undisclosed injury.

Marian Gaborik vaulted to the top spot on the NHL goal list and earned first star honors with a performance that helped the New York Rangers snap a three-game losing streak.

Jaromir Jagr's National Hockey League career might be over after all. The New York Post reported Friday that the New York Rangers' captain, who can become an unrestricted free agent on July 1, has been offered a three-year, $35-million contract from Omsk of the Russian Super League.

The Washington Capitals struggled to give away Jaromir Jagr. The Boston Bruins had no such problem with Joe Thornton.

GREENBURGH, N.Y. a ' Add Brandon Dubinskya TMs suitability as the top-line center to the litany of things that have gone right for the Rangers in their torrid start.

It can help bail you out on a night where little else is clicking and the opposition is clocking you.

As it turns out, safe is death in New York. "It means you need to take a chance," Rangers coach John Tortorella said of the adage he likes to preach.

TORONTO - Andrew Raycroft looked to the rafters and shook his head. Then he looked at the ice and swept his stick across the crease, but he could not get at all of the snow, and he could not clean up the mess that he and the Toronto Maple Leafs had created.

It's been a while since the Rangers owned as significant an edge in talent against an opponent as the Blueshirts did last night playing against Macho Man Brian Burke's 0-4-1 Maple Leafs; probably since the first half of the 2005-06 season when Jaromir Jagr and his Czechmates took the league by storm.