New York Rangers Timeline

1928 Apr 14 New York Rangers win Stanley Cup
The 1928 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the New York Rangers and the Montreal Maroons. It was the first appearance by the Rangers in the Finals and was their f...
1933 Apr 13 New York Rangers win Stanley Cup
The 1933 Stanley Cup Finals was played between the New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs, in a rematch of the 1932 Final. The Rangers won the series 3–1 to win their second Stanley...
1940 Apr 13 New York Rangers win Stanley Cup
The 1940 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-seven series between the New York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs. New York would win the series 4–2 to win their third Stanley Cup. The Range...
1994 Jun 14 New York Rangers win Stanley Cup
The 1994 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-seven playoff series contested between the Eastern Conference champion New York Rangers and Western Conference champion Vancouver Canucks of the N...
1996 Jul 21 Wayne Gretzky Signs with the New York Rangers
Gretzky rejected a three-year deal worth $15 million with the Blues, and on July 22, he signed with the New York Rangers as a free agent, rejoining longtime Oilers teammate Mark Messier f...
1999 Apr 18 Wayne Gretzky Plays His Final Game
The final game of Gretzky's career was a 2–1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on April 18, 1999 in Madison Square Garden. The national anthems in that game were adjusted to accomm...
2008 Nov 15 New York Rangers defeat Boston Bruins, 3-2
NEW YORK - The Bruins had themselves one great time most of last night at Madison Square Garden. Yessir, a real nice trip to the City. What great sights. The Black and Gold scored them...
2009 Jan 31 Boston Bruins defeat New York Rangers, 1-0
So smooth. So calm. So poised. So ready? Tuukka Rask, given his first NHL action of 2008-09 yesterday, responded with a 35-save jewel to backstop the Bruins to a 1-0 victory over th...
2009 Mar 8 New York Rangers defeat Boston Bruins, 4-3
0:11 -- Drury sent off for holding Savard, after Savard wheels in on semi-breakaway with Kessel feed. 2:55 -- Sean Avery's first shift at MSG for the Rangers this season. He tosses hi...
2009 Apr 4 Boston Bruins defeat New York Rangers, 1-0
The Bruins clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference by beating the Rangers, who are a possible first-round opponent. Which means another possible showdown with Sean Avery, who s...
2009 Oct 2 Pittsburgh Penguins defeat New York Rangers, 3-2
The Penguins have had their way with the Rangers in Pittsburgh recently. Friday night, before a puck even drops, Sidney Crosby and Co. really get to rub their noses in it. The new-look...
2009 Oct 3 New York Rangers defeat Ottawa Senators, 5-2
It took Brandon Dubinsky the entire summer - and then some - to squeeze a contract out of the Rangers worth one-tenth of what his current right wing will earn in New York. Whether either ...
2009 Oct 5 New York Rangers defeat New Jersey Devils, 3-2
Sean Avery wasn't around to wreak havoc in New Jersey Monday night. So John Tortorella provided the fireworks instead. And a couple of rookies took it from there. With his sleepy te...
2009 Oct 8 New York Rangers defeat Washington Capitals, 4-3
WASHINGTON - There is a reason the Rangers pay Marian Gaborik the big bucks, and that is to take hold of games like Thursday night's in which the Rangers didn't know if they were coming o...
2009 Oct 12 New York Rangers defeat Toronto Maple Leafs, 7-2
John Tortorella is reluctant to draw a connection between the grueling skates he put his team through in training camp and the strength they're now showing late in games. His players are ...
2009 Oct 14 New York Rangers defeat Los Angeles Kings, 4-2
You won't find any argument from the Rangers that they were outworked and on their heels Wednesday night, easily the second-best team on the ice. But you also won't find any Rangers apolo...
2009 Oct 17 New York Rangers defeat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-1
Michael Del Zotto knew long ago that games No. 8 and 9 on the Rangers' schedule would be important dates to him. Game 8 is tonight in Toronto, and it's one for Del Zotto to enjoy. The ...
2009 Oct 19 San Jose Sharks defeat New York Rangers, 7-3
For whatever deficiencies have crept into the Rangers' game recently as they have built a seven-game winning streak, the Toronto Maple Leafs haven't made them pay for it. The team that co...
2009 Oct 22 New Jersey Devils defeat New York Rangers, 4-2
John Tortorella was waiting to see how the Rangers would bounce back from their first bad loss of the season. Twenty minutes into Thursday night's game, he was wondering how they would bo...
2009 Oct 24 Montreal Canadiens defeat New York Rangers, 5-4
This is not the way Christopher Higgins wanted to go back, a prodigal son returning to Montreal with no goals, not having scored since Game 3 of April's Canadiens-Bruins playoff series. ...
2009 Oct 26 New York Rangers defeat Phoenix Coyotes, 5-2
When Marian Gaborik is on his game and having one of those can't-miss nights, he is scary good. When he's limping off to the dressing room before the night is over, it's just plain scary ...
2009 Oct 28 New York Islanders defeat New York Rangers, 3-1
Perhaps if Marian Gaborik had been there Wednesday night, a few of those Ranger shots find the back of the net instead of the cold iron. And perhaps that masks all the battles they lost, ...
2009 Oct 30 Minnesota Wild defeat New York Rangers, 3-2
The last time the Rangers paid a visit to Minnesota, the game turned into the Marian Gaborik Show. It was Dec. 20, 2007, and Gaborik, then wearing the green and red of the Wild, torched H...
2009 Nov 1 New York Rangers defeat Boston Bruins, 1-0
Ranger winger Sean Avery, who has a penchant for such things, was shooting his mouth off at various Bruins during the pregame warmups yesterday at Madison Square Garden. The trash talk ca...
2009 Nov 3 Vancouver Canucks defeat New York Rangers, 4-1
The NHL Wednesday slapped Rangers winger Dane Byers with a one-game suspension and coach John Tortorella with a $10,000 fine stemming from a fight late in the Rangers' 4-1 loss to the Can...
2009 Nov 5 New York Rangers defeat Edmonton Oilers, 4-2
This isn't going to be a homecoming for Tom Renney, and for now, that's just fine with him. The Rangers begin a three-city swing through Western Canada Tuesday night in Vancouver, with...
2009 Nov 7 Calgary Flames defeat New York Rangers, 3-1
The Rangers limped into and out of the playoffs last spring, but that had little to do with injuries following a season that included very few man-games lost in comparison to most NHL tea...
2009 Nov 12 Atlanta Thrashers defeat New York Rangers, 5-3
Down two centers, and with no immediate plans to call up another one, the Rangers will soldier on without Brandon Dubinsky and Chris Drury beginning Thursday against Atlanta. Already p...
2009 Nov 14 New York Rangers defeat Ottawa Senators, 2-1
Henrik Lundqvist has said he considers the period between mid-November and the New Year to be the dog days of the hockey season. But judging by how the Rangers are scoring lately, they ca...
2009 Nov 17 Washington Capitals defeat New York Rangers, 4-2
The main difference between this season's Rangers and the ones who blew that playoff series to the Capitals last April? These guys have Marian Gaborik, a superstar so skilled that he can ...
2009 Nov 21 Florida Panthers defeat New York Rangers, 3-2
There were some strange and unusual sights at the Garden Saturday night - Henrik Lundqvist letting in a lollipop from the blue line, a Florida goal that went through the goal itself - but...
2009 Nov 23 New York Rangers defeat Columbus Blue Jackets, 7-4
The Rangers' goals Wednesday night are modest enough: Carry their one-game scoring surge with them on the road, win a second game in a row for the first time in more than a month and allo...
2009 Nov 25 New York Rangers defeat Florida Panthers, 2-1
SUNRISE, Fla. - So, that finishing touch that the Rangers had suddenly discovered hasn't yet made the trip to Florida. No matter: The Rangers won a hockey game last night because they bro...
2009 Nov 27 Tampa Bay Lightning defeat New York Rangers, 5-1
TAMPA - They didn't need a video montage to prove that John Tortorella has seen better days in this place. With his five-year-old glory days playing on the big screen above him, Tortor...
2009 Nov 28 Pittsburgh Penguins defeat New York Rangers, 8-3
The one message John Tortorella spent the weekend repeating is the need for changes around here. Changes in the way some of his Rangers go about their business, changes in the way the NHL...
2009 Nov 30 Pittsburgh Penguins defeat New York Rangers, 5-2
The scoring has been absent, that much is plain to see. But that is not all that is disturbing the Rangers right now. As John Tortorella said, "We simply haven't gotten it done at key tim...
2009 Dec 5 New York Rangers defeat Buffalo Sabres, 2-1
BUFFALO - Henrik Lundqvist stared down the length of the rink Saturday night and saw an opposing goaltender who is leading the league in all the big goaltending stats, and one who Lundqvi...
2009 Dec 6 Detroit Red Wings defeat New York Rangers, 3-1
If Rex Ryan were the Rangers' coach, oh, the tears he would have shed last night. The team Ryan coaches has spent decades dealing with this kind of loss. And last night the Rangers - no s...
2009 Dec 9 Chicago Blackhawks defeat New York Rangers, 2-1
"It's a mess," John Tortorella said. "Let's call it what it is, it's a mess." Okay, the coach was talking about the Rangers' backup goaltending situation, but what to call the rest of ...
2009 Dec 12 Buffalo Sabres defeat New York Rangers, 3-2
What do Patrick Kaleta and the New York Rangers have in common? Two goals in one night is about as good as it gets. It added particular insult to the Rangers' latest loss that it was K...
2009 Dec 14 Atlanta Thrashers defeat New York Rangers, 3-2
For 65 minutes Monday night the Rangers shot and shot and shot some more at Johan Hedberg's net. The way this season is going for them, it was almost painfully fitting that when Ales Kota...
2009 Dec 16 New York Islanders defeat New York Rangers, 2-1
Dwayne Roloson accused his Islanders earlier in the week of mailing in an effort because they were looking ahead to playing the Rangers. So what exactly were the Rangers looking ahead to ...
2009 Dec 17 New York Rangers defeat New York Islanders, 5-2
He blasted his team following Wednesday's putrid effort. He benched two veterans, sparking a shouting match with one. And he gave Henrik Lundqvist yet another start. Yes, John Tortorel...
2009 Dec 19 New York Rangers defeat Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1
PHILADELPHIA - The one guy who probably could use a benching continues to be the one guy the Rangers can't get along without. The Rangers were snowed in here Saturday night, in more wa...
2009 Dec 21 New York Rangers defeat Carolina Hurricanes, 3-1
RALEIGH, N.C. - Brandon Dubinsky was playing for the first time Monday night without the hard cast that had been protecting his mended right hand, and he said that getting rid of it was l...
2009 Dec 23 New York Rangers defeat Florida Panthers, 4-1
Rangers 4, Panthers 1 The Rangers' effort against the Islanders back on Dec. 16 at the Garden was so putrid that the stench of that loss lingered in the home dressing room for a full w...
2009 Dec 26 New York Islanders defeat New York Rangers, 3-2
The fine line Sean Avery walks each game was plain to see on Saturday night at the Garden. If he is your team's energy source and doing the dirty work that others aren't, how much can you...
2010 Jan 2 Carolina Hurricanes defeat New York Rangers, 2-1
HURRICANES 2, RANGERS 1 With the rink full of children catching a weekend matinee at the Garden Saturday, the Rangers had a 15-year-old girl sing the national anthem, a 13-year-old boy...
2010 Jan 4 New York Rangers defeat Boston Bruins, 3-2
NEW YORK - Looking every bit the part of visiting rubes, the Bruins suffered a Jack Lemmon-like out-of-towner’s nightmare last night at Madison Square Garden. Not only did they play poorl...
2010 Jan 6 New York Rangers defeat Dallas Stars, 5-2
Mike Modano was not shy about saying he was glad to see Sean Avery go, but he said it is good that the antagonistic Ranger is back in hockey. Last season, when the Stars cut ties with ...