Larry Brooks

So we know that Chris Drury has spoken to Peter Laviolette, Spencer Carbery, Jay Leach, Mike Babcock and either interviewed John Hynes within the last 24 hours or will do so shortly as the Rangers’ president-GM conducts this coaching search that is its fourth week. Kris Knoblauch might have been […]

Three years later, here is Marc Staal, about to play in the Stanley Cup final as a Panthers fixture, and here are the Rangers, still searching for a third-pair left defenseman to fill the hole that No. 18 left when he was traded to the Red Wings on Sept. 26, […]

Here is a Pass/Fail exercise for the teams that won’t hold Stanley Cup parades next month after qualifying for, and then being eliminated from, the playoffs. Could the season nevertheless be considered successful, gaining a Pass grade for 2022-23? Or was it a failure, colossal or otherwise, thus earning an […]

The Rangers coaching search is in a holding pattern but we can safely tell you that this is not related to the meeting between Joel Quenneville and Gary Bettman that will take place at some point after the Cup final. Our understanding is that there is no expectation within the […]

Read the expert take on the Blueshirts Sign up for Larry Brooks’ Inside the Rangers, a weekly Sports+ exclusive. In the aftermath of the Maple Leafs’ second-round elimination by the Panthers, the endlessly creative Sean McIndoe of The Athletic ranked every one of Toronto’s 29 playoff defeats since the team’s […]