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Young local stars evoke memories of past rookie greats

Mathew Barzal, a legitimate threat to Brock Boeser, Clayton Keller and Malcolm Subban for the Calder Trophy, would constitute a special rookie class unto himself around these parts, given the combination of speed and skill he flashes on a clockwork basis for the Belmont-bound Islanders. But wait. There are the similarly skilled, if not necessarily...

Yankees rise, Giants crash, Knicks find hope: 2017 in review

Well, there goes another year into the books that somehow marched merrily on without a championship from a New York City team. If you’re keeping score, come May 3, 2018, that will be 2,282 days since our last title (the Giants’ most recent Super Bowl run), and that will surpass, by one day, the most...

Devils star Brian Boyle’s brave battle back from leukemia

Devils veteran Brian Boyle — who was diagnosed with a form of leukemia in September and was back on the ice a month later — is enjoying a career year. Before the holidays, he sat down with The Post’s Steve Serby. Q: You called your wife Lauren after the original tests in September revealed that...

Rangers now must deal with an emerging Devils juggernaut

A word to the wise and all of our other readers, too: Measuring sticks this time of year come in the shape of candy canes. But my goodness, did the Devils’ riveting 4-3 shootout victory over the Rangers at the Rock on Thursday ever come in the form of an exclamation point. This was no...

Old pal Brian Boyle bests Rangers, continues amazing comeback

It can be unfair that goaltenders have a win-loss record that doesn’t always reflect the way they played. And it was clear as day that Henrik Lundqvist didn’t deserve this loss. On a night when the Rangers turned the puck over with alarming regularity and when they struggled to defend in front of their net...

The Boston connection that’s spicing up Rangers-Devils rivalry

Hockey around New York City is buzzing these days, pumping some extra juice into a showdown Thursday between the Rangers and Devils at Prudential Center. “It may not have been, in the past few years, as intense with the standings the way they were,” Kevin Shattenkirk said. “But it’s fun to be playing against the...

Brian Boyle sparks Devils’ chippy win on historic night

NEWARK, N.J. — Corey Schneider and the Devils rebounded quickly from an overtime loss the night before in Montreal to push aside the Stars. Schneider made 28 saves, and Brian Boyle broke a tie with his 100th career goal and added an empty-netter and an assist to help New Jersey beat Dallas 5-2 on Friday...

Scrappy Devils fall in overtime in Montreal

MONTREAL — Tomas Plekanec scored 1:52 into overtime and the Canadiens beat the Devils 2-1 on Thursday night to snap a three-game slide. Andrew Shaw scored for the Canadiens (14-14-4) in the first period and Carey Price made 31 saves in his ninth straight start. Stefan Noesen had the goal for the Devils (17-9-5), who...

Devils keep pace in Metro, hammer red-hot Kings

NEWARK, N.J. — Taylor Hall scored twice and the Devils ended the Kings’ eight-game winning streak with a 5-1 victory Tuesday night. Travis Zajac, Brian Boyle and Brian Gibbons also scored for the Devils, who snapped a two-game skid. Cory Schneider made 16 saves. The Kings were beaten for the first time since losing 3-2...

Rangers get the points they need with hard-fought win over Devils

The competitive parity of the NHL which Rangers coach Alain Vigneault spoke about was on full display Saturday night at the Garden, when his Blueshirts were the better team for almost all the night — and still needed all the effort they could muster to eventually get rid of the Devils. So it was a...

The NHL has a goal-scoring problem: There are too many

The NHL was shouting from the rooftops at the quarter mark of this season that scoring was up 12.4 percent from this past year. Holy jeepers, Batman! The 1,924 goals through 318 games is the second-most goals since they canceled the 2004-05 season — remember they canceled a season, and also canceled half a season...