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New York Post
5 days ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Key takeaways from Rangers' 2025-26 NHL schedule release
Access the Rangers beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mollie Walker about the inside buzz on the Rangers. tRY IT NOW The 2025-26 season can't start soon enough for the Rangers, who are looking to return to playoff contention and distance themselves from the catastrophe that was last season. As they work to do so, however, the Blueshirts will have to face a tour of former players. It's a journey of their own making after the team took a nosedive in the standings early last year, which led to the departures of several lineup regulars in the first significant roster shake-up since the deadline purge of 2018. Tribute videos will be played on the Madison Square Garden jumbotron. Emotions will run high. 5 Rangers new head coach Mike Sullivan during his introductory press conference on May 8, 2025 at Madison Square Garden Training Center. Robert Sabo for NY Post The Rangers core as we once knew it will be scattered across the league, with a reminder in nearly every crevice of the 82-game schedule that was unveiled Wednesday afternoon. Beginning on Opening Night, ex-assistant coach Dan Muse and the Penguins will venture to MSG. That also means new Rangers head coach Mike Sullivan, who left Pittsburgh after 10 years this summer, will get to face his former team for the first time very early in the season. He will also make his grand return to the Steel City just four days later, after the Rangers open the road schedule at Buffalo. 5 Zac Jones looks on during the third period of an NHL preseason game against the Islanders at Madison Square Garden on Sept. 24, 2024. Noah K. Murray-NY Post If Zac Jones makes the Sabres lineup out of training camp, the 24-year-old defenseman would be the first ex-Ranger from last season's turmoil on the circuit. He could get the first crack at the club he never quite fit into, which led to him becoming a free agent this summer — after the Rangers didn't qualify him and he signed a one-year, two-way deal with the Sabres. The Rangers could see Filip Chytil for the first time since they traded the Czech Center to the Canucks, when they head to Vancouver on Oct. 28 as part of a four-game swing out west. 5 Filip Chytil Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post Since he suffered another concussion after the trade, Chytil couldn't play when the Canucks visited the Garden last season. Chytil, who said he plans to be ready by September, is set to return to MSG on Dec. 16. Just after visiting Chytil, the Rangers will see Kaapo Kakko and Ryan Lindgren in Seattle on Nov. 1 at the end of the western Canada swing. Though Kakko had a strong start to his Kraken tenure, Lindgren will just be getting started after signing a four-year, $18 million deal as a free agent from Colorado. 5 K'Andre Miller looks on during a Rangers game against the Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena last season. Sam Navarro-Imagn Images K'Andre Miller and the Hurricanes will be at the Garden on Nov. 4 for a highly anticipated matchup, after the Rangers traded the No. 22 pick in 2018 to Carolina earlier this month. Coming off a tough season, the 25-year-old blueliner will be looking to make a statement not only for his new club, but against his former one. Dec. 15 is also sure to be a memorable one, considering both ex-captain Jacob Trouba and 13-year Ranger Chris Kreider will be stepping back into MSG for the first time when the Ducks come to town. The Rangers already saw Trouba when they went to Anaheim last season, but the 31-year-old has not returned to the Garden since his tumultuous exit from the organization in early December. 5 Chris Kreider (center) celebrates with teammates after scoring during the third period of the Rangers' home game against the Lightning last season. AP Kreider, who was traded to Anaheim in June, is sure to be given a warm welcome back in New York. A front-loaded schedule, which features 23 road games of the first 41, will lead into a second half that includes a seven-game home stand at the end of March into early April. All four meetings with the Islanders are before the March 6 trade deadline. All three meetings with the Devils are after the trade deadline. The path back to Stanley Cup relevancy is set for the Rangers, with plenty of familiar faces to serve as frightful reminders and guide the way.
The National
10-06-2025
- Sport
- The National
Ex-Rangers assistant 'in talks' to leave European giants
The 42-year-old was brought to Ibrox in 2021, three days after Giovanni van Bronckhorst. Vos then served as assistant to his fellow countryman throughout his tenure in Govan. Read more: After leaving Rangers, the coach joined Ajax, and initially spent a spell in charge of their under-21s side. He was then promoted to the senior team, where he was Francesco Farioli's number two. Now, Vos is 'in talks' with Ajax over a contract termination, claims Dutch outlet His current deal runs until the summer of 2027. It remains to be seen where he may end up after leaving Amsterdam. Vos' potential Ajax exit comes after an intriguing update on the future of another ex-Ranger, Gennaro 'Rino' Gattuso. The Italian, who spent just over a year at Ibrox as a teenager, is reportedly in 'pole position' to become the new manager of Italy. Gattuso departed his role as boss of Croatian top-flight outfit Hajduk Split just five days ago. He now looks set to seal a quick-fire return to football, however, after Italy recently parted ways with Luciano Spalletti, despite a 2-0 win over Moldova on Monday. Gattuso is in 'pole position' to replace the 66-year-old in the national team dugout, claims
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
An 80-Year-Old Rangers Hockey Fight Mystery Solved
If you had the good fortune to see the movie about legendary Maurice Richard, you may remember a fight scene where the Rocket knocked out Rangers defenseman Bob (Killer) Dill. In the movie, Dill was played by our old friend Sean Avery. What the ex-Ranger may remember from the flick is that this was Richard's first major fight as a big-leaguer. Part Two of the bout was their going off to the penalty box – shared in those days – when Richard decked Dill again. But there's an interesting postscript that Richard told me when I worked on his book, "The Flying Frenchmen." "The funniest part of the whole incident was after the game," Richard recalled. "I walked out of the Garden exit on West 49th Street. Right across the street was the Hotel Belvedere and there was Dill waiting for me. "I couldn't speak too much English at the time but I asked Dill if he wanted to have dinner with me. He said, 'This is the first time I've ever been punched that hard but I don't think I'll have dinner with you!" P.S. When the pair would meet occasionally after that encounter, Rocket added: "Bob would give me a big handshake and a big smile!"
