Jaromir Jagr News

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.

When the Czech Republic won the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics, the first in which NHL players were made eligible, it had one of the biggest big-game goaltenders in Dominik Hasek.

The first few weeks of the Fantasy Hockey season are always intriguing, especially when it comes to the waiver wire.

Marian Gaborik scored two goals about 2 1/2 minutes apart in the third period, Henrik Lundqvist held Alex Ovechkin without a point, and the New York Rangers beat the Washington Capitals 4-3 on Thursday night in a rematch of the teams' wild playoff series.

Leaving the hockey hotbed of Boston for sunny California obviously didna t dull Joe Thorntona s skills.

The statistics a ' albeit only through two games a ' look eerily similar to last season.

Chris Drury reaching around Evgeni Malkin during the Rangers' opener. They each scored.

OCTOBER 3: Brandon Dubinsky #17 of the New York Rangers is congratulated by Vinny Prospal #20, Michal Rozsival #33, and Michael Del Zotto #4, after scoring a second period goal against the Ottawa Senators at Madison Square Garden on October 3, 2009 in New York City.