Veterans’ struggles beg for difficult Rangers changing of guard to blossoming youngsters
NY Post
Perhaps one day this current stretch, or this season, will represent a changing of the guard within the Rangers.
Underneath all the talk of championship windows, underperforming star players with no-move clauses and no-trade lists and a Stanley Cup drought into its third decade, the young core of players has quietly been marinating in supporting roles that are now begging to be expanded.
Not just out of a want for the pool of organizationally grown talent to take the next step, but a need amid a stretch of play that has indicated a shake-up may be overdue.
The way the Rangers are constructed, however, can make the distribution of ice time difficult to navigate.
The Knicks face elimination Tuesday night.
It was a history-making week that changed very little in the NFL hierarchy.
The Rangers do not play again until Friday when the Penguins come to the Garden, but the next three days will be the most critical of a season that is fast becoming a sinkhole.
During my vacation the past few weeks, a plugged-in agent told me it was his sense that the Mets were not playing at the top of the starting pitching market for Corbin Burnes and Max Fried.
Amazingly, the Knicks haven’t faced an Eastern Conference opponent with a winning record since October.
You don’t need to be a fortune teller — just a Giants fan well-versed in Murphy’s Law — to see the future headline now.
The Jets dropped their third straight game and eighth in their last nine on Sunday, a 26-21 loss to the Seahawks that sends them to 3-9 this season.
Bills fans maybe had a little too much fun in the snow Sunday night as Buffalo defeated the 49ers, 35-10.
The Mets have identified their next starting pitching project.
The Knicks reached the three-quarter pole of the basketball season Sunday night, and if they wanted to celebrate the occasion, they couldn’t have asked for a better patsy. Right now, the poor Pelicans are everyone’s favorite Homecoming Game, Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram bedecked in sweaters and strapped to the injured list.
Christian McCaffrey left Sunday’s game with a knee injury after he suffered what appeared to be a non-contact injury and it may be the reason his 2024 season ends.