New York – The Rangers were defeated tonight by the Atlanta Thrashers, 5-3, in front of another sold-out Garden crowd of 18,300. You have to give the Ranger faithful their due, they are a loyal bunch to their team which is now 3-7-1 in their last ten games and fell to a 10-8-1 overall record.
Ilya [...]

NEW YORK – It’s kind of fitting that Andy Bathgate had his number retired 45 years to the day he was traded from the Rangers to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
And maybe it was more fitting that the current Rangers and Leafs were set to battle after Bathgate’s No. 9 and Harry Howell’s No. 3 were [...]

HARTFORD, CT – Sean Avery returned to competitive hockey for the first time in 21/2 months with his usual array of speed, yapping and feistiness, which led to a fight on his second shift with the Hartford Wolf Pack.
But Avery didn’t get on the scoresheet despite several good opportunities and near misses by his [...]

Scott Gomez needed something. He’d been a big part of the problem having gone minus-seven in two consecutive defeats with talk something could happen if the losing continued.
In a more feisty kinda game in which he even traded punches with Atlanta superstar Ilya Kovalchuk even getting the better of it, a hungrier Gomez got the [...]