Rangers’ burgeoning youth providing plenty of hope for bright future
NY Post
The doom and gloom surrounding the Rangers this season has been all encompassing, draining and taxing.
A 6-2 thrashing of the last-place Blackhawks isn’t going to completely clear the sky, but it stopped the downpour — even if only momentarily.
Coming off a weekend in which Filip Chytil dazzled and a couple of prospects played integral roles in Team USA’s IIHF World Junior Championship repeat gold medal win, however, the sun appears to be shining on the future of the Blueshirts organization.
Chytil had the same pop and swagger in the past two games that he showed through the first month and a half of the season, before the Czech center missed seven games for an upper-body injury that was deemed not a concussion.
Posting three goals on six shots in the past two games, Chytil set a new season-high point streak of four contests.
He appeared to be heating up the two games before that, too, when the 25-year-old ripped a pass off the boards to spring Brett Berard for his breakaway goal vs. the Bruins after he went five-hole on Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky in the previous game in Florida.
The Jets are leaving no stone unturned in their pursuit of the franchise’s next head coach.
Black Monday has claimed its first — and perhaps most predictable — victim.
CHICAGO — It’s counterproductive to put stock in a win over the last-place team in the NHL, but there’s significance to a much-needed blowout victory.
The Jerod Mayo era is already over in New England.
It’s mostly the bed.
Rumors surrounding Mike Tomlin’s future with the Steelers have picked up once again.
The weather conditions will give the Giants a reprieve from another plane banner on Sunday.
WASHINGTON — Penalties have piled up for the Rangers in recent games, and it’s beginning to cost them greatly.
CHICAGO — The Knicks better hope it was just tired legs on Saturday night.
CHICAGO — Karl-Anthony Towns was hurt toward the end of Saturday’s loss to the Bulls and limped to the locker room.
PHILADELPHIA — All inconsequential games are not created equal.