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Sunday saw the Islanders miss-out on making the playoffs and clinch a playoff berth. The New York Islanders were eliminated from making a playoff run for the Stanley Cup as their AHL counterpart Bridgeport Islanders clinched a playoff berth in what was the team’s final regular season home game in Connecticut ever. With that, the Bridgeport Islanders will play at least one more home game in Connecticut before packing up and going to Canada. Sunday marked the final home game at

On Easter Sunday the Islanders cracked the head coaching egg, firing Patrick Roy and hiring Peter DeBoer. The firing came as a shock with just four games remaining in the season and New York being a playoff contender, just one point out of a secured playoff berth. Despite being in close contention, the club will most likely fall fully out of a playoff spot before Thursday’s home game against the Maple Leafs. Roy had a tenure that was full of ups-and-downs and the true reason

Rangers hockey granted the Canadiens their 44th win on Tuesday as New York drops to 31-36-9. With six-games left of the 2025/26 season, all hope for the Rangers has been long gone for the last-place team in the Metropolitan. The Rangers’ 71 points has them 9 points-out from their closest division competitor in the New Jersey Devils. Despite the lack-of home offense, the Rangers rank 23rd-out-of-32 in goals-for, with 214, but a defense allowing 235 goals has ranked New York i

A dominant power play unit is something that the New York Islanders have lacked for nearly a decade. Over the past eight seasons, beginning with the 2018/19 team, has seen only the Ducks and Flyers post a worse man-advantage success rate than New York’s 17.2% mark. If the Islanders were to get a grade, it would be an F or at least a very borderline D-. As the season draws closer to the finish line and a narrow playoff race heats up, the Islanders rank 28th out of 32 teams in

Since being drafted as a center out of Sweden, the towering 6-foot-7 Adam Edstrom has manned the wing since joining the Rangers organization. Saturday night had that all change when New York was in Minnesota, with the Rangers switching up their lines and putting Edstrom in the middle for the first time in the NHL. The 25-year-old centered the fourth line for New York in what was a Rangers 4-2 win over the Wild. Rangers coach Mike Sullivan believed that it was Edstrom’s first

The New York Rangers are crashing harder than the 2008 stock market. Some thought that after trading away Artemi Panarin that the team would start seeing an upside. Instead New York sits very comfortably in last place in the Metro, eight points away from their closest team. Ranger fans you can kiss playoff hockey goodbye as their current 22-29-6 record is making sure of it. February 5th, showcased a 2-0 shutout loss for their 29th loss of the season, which was their ninth shu

Jeremy Smith made it to the NHL briefly for what was a 10 game stint with the Colorado Avalanche during the 2016/17 season. In those 10 games and some 546 minutes of ice time, Smith posted a triple 8 save percentage. Since then he has chased that high of being back at the NHL level. Smith was the Bridgeport Islanders (then Sound Tigers) starting goal tender in 2018, racking up a very respectable 2.92 GAA and a .902 save percentage. Since 2018/19 the Michigan native has been i

Due to the Eastern Conference being so tightly contested the Buffalo Sabres were never truly out of any playoff picture. At the end of November, Buffalo sat 16th with 24 points and as the only sub .500% team in the East. Now, at the end of December the Sabres are on a nine-game winning streak and sit 9th with 44 points. With a 14-year playoff drought, it is hard to give Buffalo any benefit of the doubt – although this Sabres team (at least as of late) has shown to be differen

Thanksgiving is around the corner as we get ready to gather with our family and even some friends to feast and gain another pound or two…or three or four. No matter what you’re eating this Thanksgiving, there will be talking points and with that it is important to keep the conversations civil and non-controversal. Right? WRONG. With that said, here are five very risky and controversial talking topics to bring up this turkey day. The 2025 New York Yankees Collapse What’s wors

Jonathan Quick had a mammoth workload Sunday night as New York took on Detroit for some Rangers v Red Wings hockey. Both teams came onto the ice seeking win 11 of their respective seasons, and for Detroit the win-loss column shifted in the win slot for them. A close 2-1 win for the Red Wings saw the Rangers defense sweating by game’s end. 2-1 is as close as it can get with that critical one-point difference as the Red Wings broke a 1-1 tie in the third and held on for the win

Islanders hockey will be face-to-face tonight vs the Wild at UBS in hopes of rebounding from a 4-3 shootout loss Tuesday vs Boston. The 6-5-2 Islanders, who are -3 in the goal differential department, currently stand as the best New York hockey team over the 6-6-2 Rangers and 5-win Sabres. Overall, a sixth-place ranking in the Metropolitan Division with 14 points has seen the Islanders struggle to get a consistent footing through their first 13 games. Minnesota is 10-3-1 in t

Congratulations to the New York Rangers for finally scoring a home goal. Unfortunately, they were only able to score one when the team needed at least four. Artemi Panarin was the one who ended the home scoring drought at the most famous arena in the world. The goal came after 180:57 of shutout hockey through three home games. Panarin’s goal came just 57 seconds into the first period. The Rangers became the first team in NHL history to put up donuts in their first-three home

Buffalo has once again dug themselves a hole early in the season. A 1-3-0 start puts the Sabres with just 2 points and last place in the Atlantic Division. A total of 6 points back from Montreal, the Sabres won on Wednesday against the Senators to get their first points in the standings. Despite Buffalo taking down Ottawa, a team ahead of them in the division, doesn’t quite mean that things will trend upward. Even with the fact Buffalo had an offensive explosion with 8 goals.

What will come first: The New York Jets winning a football game or the New York Rangers scoring a home goal? As of now the answer is neither. The New York Rangers 2-0 shutout by the Oilers, saw not only the Blueshirts drop to 2-3-0 but the team surpassed the 2001/02 Florida Panthers for the longest streak to open a season without a goal on home ice. The Rangers last home goal came on the regular season finale back on April 17th, which was scored by Mika Zibanejad. New York w

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The Bridgeport Islanders announced early Wednesday that the team has signed 27-year-old defenseman Sean Day to an AHL deal. Day has spent...

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