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Beth Machlan

2018 Stanley Cup Final: Game 1 Open Thread

It begins, as usual, in conflict with the NBA conference finals. But there’s nothing “usual” about this SCF. First of all: OVI I mean, the Capitals! For the first time in 20 years! Second of all: VEGAS! Where it’s the first time for everything — and the Golden Knights

Open Thread: Stanley Cup Playoffs Day 41

It’s Day 41. The water is rising, and typhoid has broken out in the next village. Today, we ate the last of the carrier pigeons ... Wait ... wrong Day 41. This one is just your average hockey Sunday, on which some upstart whippersnapper franchise might win the West and head

Playoff Hockey Open Thread: Day 38

Hey, at least we don’t have to stay up late! Still, I don’t know about you, but I see “8 p.m.” and I automatically think “Pierre” whether he’s there or not so I guess you take the good with the bad. Rangers-relevant news: J. T. Miller

Rangers vs. Panthers: Open Game Thread

Tonight is the second of the Rangers’ two-game Florida road trip. This one should be far less of a Freudian hockey nightmare, but it will also be a strange trip: it’s ... Grateful Dead Night! We’re having a rockin’ good time at our @GratefulDead night! 💀🌹😸 pic.twitter.com/TPaHqOJrti

Rangers vs. Oilers: Sweeping the Tank?

The Rangers ended their three-game road trip with yet another one-goal win, leaving fans of the tank bereft, and the rest of us tired, weirdly elated, and vaguely confused. While the McDavids Oilers came out hard, it was the Rangers who scored first, just 54 seconds in. Chris Kreider has

Open Game Thread: Rangers vs. Jets

Get it? JETS? Ugh. Can the decimated Blueshirts win another one? We’ll find out today at 3 pm EST when the Rangers begin their two-game road trip against Winnipeg. Here are the lines, reported yesterday: #NYR lines: Nash -Zibanejad - Zuccarello Grabner - Hayes - Miller Vesey - Desharnais

Same Team: Hockey is Hockey

I was so happy when my daughter told me she wanted to play hockey. As a hockey fan and former hockey player, there’s nothing quite like lacing your kid into their first skates and watching them walrus their way onto the ice. Each year they play, there’s one