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Brad Marchand, who at the morning skate looked like he might not even play, scored the overtime game-winner with 4:20 left in the extra session to lift the Bruins to a 3-2 victory over the New York Rangers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals at the Garden.

For the first time in the playoffs, Rangers coach John Tortorella decided to split up his top defensive pair of Dan Girardi and Ryan McDonagh in deference to his opposition's depth.

Contrary to popular belief, the Bruins' most bitter rival of their 1970's heyday wasn't the Montreal Canadiens, it was the New York Rangers.

Midway through the third period of an anticlimactic - and unprecedented - Game 7 road victory for his New York Rangers, goalie Henrik Lundqvist fell forward while smothering a puck to stifle yet another chance for the Washington Capitals.

The Vermont House voted Monday evening to make the state the first in the country to legislate allowing physicians to provide lethal medication to terminally ill patients who request it.

The Rangers had crawled into the minds and hormonal glands of these Capitals, who had played a very emotional, stupid game and paid a heavy price: 10 minutes of wasted energy and penalty killing, compared to zero for the home team.

Forgive the New York Rangers if they have a quiet confidence heading into a must-win game against the Washington Capitals.

The crowds have changed, players have come and gone - the injured and invisible - and momentum has swung a nauseating number of times, but the difference between the Rangers dropping two games in Washington and winning the past two at home has come down to what both teams believed would determine the first round series before it started.

Girardi ripped a shot from above the left circle, off a feed from Derick Brassard, to give the Rangers the lead again with a power-play goal 59 seconds into the third.

Dan Girardi and Derek Stepan scored third-period goals for the New York Rangers, who squandered a two-goal lead and then held on to get even in the best-of-seven playoff series with a 4-3 victory over the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night.

Marc Staal is just one game into his comeback from a horrific right eye injury, so his on-ice familiarity with fellow defenseman John Moore is still nascent as the Rangers enter tonight's Game 4 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal against the Capitals.

Hours before the puck dropped at Madison Square Garden for Game 3 on Monday night, something didn't sit right with Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby.

Derek Stepan and Arron Asham both scored tiebreaking goals in the third period for the New York Rangers in a 4-3 victory over the Washington Capitals in Game 3 on Monday night.

Derick Brassard celebrates his second-period power-play goal against the Washington Capitals during Game 3 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals at Madison Square Garden.

When Marc Staal went down with a serious eye injury many people expected it to hurt the New York Rangers .

They had been stoned time and again by New York Rangers star goalie Henrik Lundqvist.

The Washington Capitals beat the New York Rangers in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series on Thursday night at the Verizon Center.

A year ago, we knew exactly who and what those guys were when the playoffs began.

Can he continue this impressive run in the postseason when going up against the defensively dedicated Rangers? Can he finally lead the Capitals on a lengthy postseason run? The opposing coaching philosophies of Oates and Tortorella Oates's success in his first season as an NHL bench boss has come from his ability to build a trusting and respectful ... (more)

NY Rangers center Derek Stepan finished the regular season with 18 goals and 44 points in just 48 games.