Rangers blow lead in brutal overtime loss to Capitals ahead of trade deadline
NY Post
The Rangers are choosing to look at their final game before the trade deadline for what it was rather than what it meant for their playoff aspirations.
Though they left a point on the table in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Eastern Conference-leading Capitals on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, the Blueshirts can see themselves banding together and building on every performance as they make this final 20-game push for a postseason bid.
Tom Wilson — because who else? — denied the Rangers of what would’ve been their first three-game win streak since mid-November when he knocked in Dylan Strome’s 2-on-1 feed with 52.3 seconds left in the extra period.
Washington has all but run away with the conference as one of the most dominant teams in the NHL this season, over which they have swept the Rangers in all three meetings.
Because the Senators beat the Blackhawks in overtime, Ottawa leapfrogged the Rangers into the second wild-card spot with a game in hand ahead of the teams’ second and final meeting of the regular season on Saturday.
That all may be true and relevant, but the Rangers can’t afford to be harping on the negatives right now.
The 49ers have a leg up on the competition in the free-agency rush for Joey Bosa.
As the trade rumors swirled, Matthew Stafford’s daughters came home from school to ask him about the questions their friends had peppered them with regarding his future.
Darren Pang made what he thought was an innocuous comment about Alex Ovechkin during Wednesday’s TNT broadcast of the Rangers-Capitals game.
PORT ST. LUCIE — The most significant news of Mets camp has involved the pitchers the world has yet to see: Frankie Montas (a lat strain that will cost months) and Sean Manaea (an oblique strain expected to cost weeks) will miss time at the start of the season.
There’s the famous video, or perhaps infamous in the mind of Jalen Brunson, of the young point guard in the park being pushed through drills by his father.
LOS ANGELES — It started to crumble for the Knicks about halfway through the fourth quarter Tuesday night. They’d been well within striking distance for much of the game against the Warriors, even tying the score early in the final period.
What if the Giants could acquire a quarterback who threw 35 touchdown passes and just 12 interceptions in 2024? What if that quarterback led his team to a record of 14-3? And what if that guy was just 27 years old?
The Rangers are choosing to look at their final game before the trade deadline for what it was rather than what it meant for their playoff aspirations.
The “OMG” show is going from coast to coast.
The gap between two of the most highly hyped quarterback prospects in this year’s lukewarm class is one of “giant” proportions.
Will Cuylle’s got his head in the game.
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Will Warren faced almost the same exact Phillies lineup Tuesday that he did in his MLB debut seven months ago.
