UNIONDALE, NY—Just five points separated the Islanders from the Eastern Conference’s eighth spot heading into Wednesday.
Islanders general manager Garth Snow said he considers his team still in the playoff race. But the GM still chose to build for the long-term rather, trading 6-6 defenseman Andy Sutton to the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday in exchange for [...]

NEW YORK –Lately, life is much better for Scott Gomez, after his trade to the Montreal Canadiens, than it has been for the New York Rangers, the team which traded him north of the border.  The transition has been as smooth as could be expected, given that hockey is covered as fervently throughout Canada as [...]

Sundays 26-3 win over the 1-11 Tampa Bay Bucaneers will not go down as a classic game set to NFL Films  music and dramatic narration.It was a game though that the once 4-6 Jets HAD to win in order to stay relevant in the AFC East playoff race. Nowat 7-6 and winners of three straight, [...]

The New Jersey Nets know things are getting down to the wire.
They know that things aren’t in their favor either.
In the middle of a four-game road trip, the Nets have already lost to Golden State a team that by all means they should have been able to defeat, but thanks in part to a [...]

UNIONDALE, NY — Before the Islanders took the ice to face the Florida Panthers in a New Year’s Eve matinee, the club introduced mascots of comic book heroes like Spiderman and the Hulk.
Ironman was also in attendance, though he did not take a picture with Rick DiPietro. The snapshot would have marked a dichotomy of [...]

Juan Pablo Angel scored his fifth and sixth goals of the season as the New York Red Bulls their archrival D.C. United, 4-1, before 15,038 at Giants Stadium on Sunday night. The win pulls the Red Bulls into a four-way tie for fourth place in the Eastern Conference and into the thick of the playoff race. “We showed character and resilience,” a pleased Angel said after the match. “We won a very difficult game against a decent side.”