TORONTO (AP) -The Toronto Maple Leafs acquired forward Ryan Hollweg from the New York Rangers for a 2009 fifth-round draft pick on Monday.
The 25-year-old Hollweg had two goals and two assists and 96 penalty minutes in 70 games for the Rangers.
He has five goals and seven assists in 200 career NHL games, all with the Rangers.
He was New York’s eighth-round choice, 238th overall, in the 2001 draft.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -The Blue Jackets traded enigmatic offensive star Nikolai Zherdev and center Dan Fritsche to the New York Rangers for defensemen Christian Backman and Fedor Tyutin on Wednesday.
Zherdev gives the Rangers one of the NHL’s best one-on-one players, but also a Russian right winger who has frequently fallen into disfavor with management and teammates. He had a career-high 61 points last season with 26 goals and 35 assists, second on the Columbus team to captain Rick Nash.
NEW YORK - Forward Nikolai Zherdev is heading to Broadway after a four-player trade between the Columbus Blue Jackets and New York Rangers.
The Rangers also acquired centre Dan Fritsche in exchange for defencemen Fedor Tyutin and Christian Backman, a source told The Canadian Press.
Zherdev, 24, had 61 points (26-35) in 82 regular-season games last season while the 23-year-old Fritsche had 22 points (10-12) in 69 games.
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GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -Jaromir Jagr entered his season-ending exit interview not knowing if it would be his last act with the New York Rangers.
Two days after the Rangers were eliminated with an overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round of the playoffs, Jagr stood in front of his stall Tuesday and did his best to explain what the future holds.
Nearly a half-hour later, there were still no concrete answers from the free-agent-to-be.
PITTSBURGH - Maybe it was Jaromir Jagr’s last game with the New York Rangers. It almost certainly wasn’t Jagr’s last hockey game.
Jagr, a five-time NHL scoring champion, is facing an uncertain future following the Rangers’ season-ending 3-2 overtime loss to Pittsburgh on Sunday in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series.
While the 36-year-old Jagr’s contract carries into next season only if he wins the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs MVP, almost an impossibility now that the Rangers have been eliminated, he plans to keep playing hockey.
PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Penguins answered the New York Rangers’ desperation with frustration, and with a predictable result.
Sidney Crosby looked unhappy and exasperated during the Penguins’ first playoff loss in eight games, their 3-0 defeat to the Rangers on Thursday night in Game 4 of the second-round series.
Evgeni Malkin, the Penguins’ best player so far with the possible exception of goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, was so off his game after missing a penalty shot that he tried kicking out Paul Mara’s skates near the end of the game. Mara called it a “classless act by a superstar.”
PITTSBURGH - Only one game into the NHL’s Eastern Conference semifinal between the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins and already the heat is rising.
Penguins head coach Michel Therrien came out swinging after Saturday’s practice, saying he was tired of hearing from the Rangers camp what he believed were insinuations that Sidney Crosby was diving to draw penalties.
“Enough is enough, that’s enough,” Therrien fumed ahead of Sunday’s Game 2.
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Losing a three-goal lead was bad enough, losing the game was worse still. If they lose the series, this one will be very hard for the New York Rangers to forget.
Especially losing to a Kid some of them believe is as good an actor as he is a hockey player, and that must mean Sidney Crosby is the Brad Pitt of Pittsburgh.
A combination of the Penguins’ youthful determination and the Rangers’ inability to keep playing the way they did in building a 3-0 lead led to a 5-4 Pittsburgh comeback victory Friday night in their second-round playoff series opener, one that puts substantial pressure on the Rangers going into Game 2 on Sunday.
After knocking off the defending champion Anaheim Ducks, the Dallas Stars are now looking like Stanley Cup contenders as they get set to face the deep and talented San Jose Sharks in the second round of NHL playoffs.
In the East, the New York Rangers emerged as a contender with a five-game pasting of the New Jersey Devils in the first round, but must stop Sidney Crosby and the red-hot Pittsburgh Penguins.
Here’s a look at the Eastern and Western Conference semifinal matchups:
NEW YORK (AP) -Sean Avery easily brushed off Martin Brodeur’s snub in the handshake line following the New York Rangers’ five-game, opening-round playoff win against the New Jersey Devils.
After all, there will be more goalies to antagonize in what he and the Rangers hope will be a long run through the Stanley Cup playoffs.
“We just wanted to come out and win the series,” Avery said after the Rangers’ 5-3 road win Friday night finished off the Devils in the Eastern Conference matchup. “We played well as a team, and it’s Step One of four steps.”
