Anytime a first-round pick that isn’t in the top five makes their NHL debut within a season of being drafted, it raises eyebrows. …

Living in a world of delusion might be ideal because of the state of life on planet earth right now. …

Existence as a New York Mets fan is living with an invisible black cloud floating overhead. The scars that define existence in Flushing Queens are a series of one-word references to a series of baseball nightmares: Wainwright, 2007, Duda, Gillaspie, Callaway, Atlanta. Those six phrases sum up the most sensitive…

For the rest of New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin’s life, the words Vezina Trophy winner will be used as a descriptor. Winning the Vezina in a goalie’s first full NHL season is the music equivalent of Guns and Roses dropping “Appetite for Destruction” as a debut album. Setting such…

To be considered a dynasty, a steady group of individuals needs to prove themselves over an extended period of time. But more importantly, what gets overlooked is that they’re molded through experiences along that journey. That’s what sets those groups apart from the regular championship-winning teams. That’s the difference with…

The magic of sports is the unpredictable. Just because something should or is supposed to happen, doesn’t mean it always will. Hell, even if what’s expected happens, the path getting there might not be the straightforward one. …

The Pittsburgh Penguins took the New York Rangers’ lunch over the course of a five-hour marathon in a score kinder to New York than reality. Anytime a hockey game runs five-plus hours it’s going to dramatically swing perceptions about the series at large. In the scope of a best of…

Trying to explain what the Stanley Cup means to a non-hockey fan is the sports equivalent of trying to explain God to an atheist. There is no other way to put it, the Stanley Cup playoffs are most intoxicating sports relationship that exists. The field was whittled down from 32…

It’s been five long years since I was sitting in the third row of section 208 in Madison Square Garden as the New York Rangers shook hands with the victorious Ottawa Senators in game six of the Eastern Conference semi-finals. I vividly remember being the last person in my section…