Larry Brooks joined the Post in 1976 and has been its NHL columnist since 1994, adding the Rangers beat in 1996. He also covered the Devils and serves as a baseball columnist. The Hockey News has named him one of the Top 100 People of Power and Influence in NHL seven times, the only writer from a daily U.S. publication to receive that recognition.
For his next trick, Rangers' head coach and travel director John Tortorella will have his players take rickshaws to Atlanta for tomorrow night's match with the Thrashers. It's always about something else with...
March 11, 2010 12:00 AMWASHINGTON -- Maybe Sidney Crosby is a fan of Jay's or maybe he was upset at not being invited to Dave's Super Bowl bash with Oprah, but folks around the NHL sure would be interested in learning even one of No. 87's...
March 07, 2010 12:00 AMOTTAWA -- Maybe Olli Jokinen will carry the Rangers to the playoffs the way he carried Finland to the bronze in Vancouver. Maybe Marian Gaborik shouldn't have tried to drag Slovakia to the first Olympic team-sport...
March 02, 2010 12:00 AMPlayers suffer injuries in exhibition games. The NHL doesn't cancel them. Players suffer injuries in practices. NHL teams don't do away with them. Which is to say that while it would be most unfortunate if Marian...
February 28, 2010 12:00 AMWell here's one from Gary Bettman even more stunning than, a) 10 consecutive seconds of silence from Pierre McGuire, and, b) an observation from Mike Milbury about Alexander Ovechkin that doesn't also contain a...
February 21, 2010 12:00 AM
Tomorrow is Jaromir Jagr’s 38th birthday. And my wish is that No. 68, a Ranger for far too short a time, delivers an Olympian performance for the Czech Republic over the fortnight in Vancouver. Both as a calling card...
February 14, 2010 2:30 AMIf you're scoring in New Jersey, the trade reads: Zdeno Ciger, Kevin Todd, Corey Millen, Ben Hankinson, Alexander Semak, Tommy Albelin, Cale Hulse, Steve Sullivan, Jason Smith, Alyn McCauley, Sheldon Souray, Brendan...
February 07, 2010 12:00 AMWe get it. John Tortorella is the chess master playing with one king, one rook, a knight, a bishop and about a dozen pawns. But at some point the head coach of the Rangers must declare and implement a strategy against...
February 04, 2010 12:00 AM
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- So Atlanta general manager Don Waddell will not allow clubs interested in acquiring Ilya Kovalchuk to speak to the winger's representative about a contract extension before a trade is completed....
January 31, 2010 12:00 AM
THE fear factor as it applies to the Rangers is that Glen Sather will respond to the team's latest string of crash-and-burn by making risky trades in order to acquire a Band-Aid or two to apply to his team's...
January 29, 2010 12:00 AMTHE fear factor as it applies to the Rangers is that Glen Sather will respond to the team's latest string of crash-and-burn by making risky trades in order to acquire a Band-Aid or two to apply to his team's...
January 29, 2010 12:00 AMMONTREAL -- Since the lockout, there has been only one team forced to trade a franchise player in a deadline rental deal, and that was Atlanta moving Marian Hossa to Pittsburgh two years ago following management's...
January 24, 2010 12:00 AMHere's how the Rangers stand to benefit tomorrow night in Philadelphia from last night's 8-2 rout of the Lightning in Manhattan: Henrik Lundqvist goes in fresh. The King played last night, all right, stopping 21 of the...
January 20, 2010 12:00 AMTempting as it might be for Jim Dolan, Glen Sather and John Tortorella to fantasize about adding Vincent Lecavalier to the Broadway marquee, it is imperative that the Three Wise Men just say no if and when the Rangers...
January 19, 2010 12:00 AMHis official title in the league directory no longer is operative. This was the week in which Colin Campbell first and foremost became the NHL's Cleaner, in charge of dust-busting every single potential scandal under...
January 17, 2010 12:00 AMThe Rangers' recent correction in which they have gone 8-1-3 since the Dec. 16 Garden defeat to the Islanders that prompted the twin two-game exiles of Wade Redden and Ales Kotalik presents a challenge for GM Glen...
January 11, 2010 12:00 AMBOSTON --Romance is one thing. Revenue is something else altogether. And so, in the wake of the news that the overnight television ratings for the Fenway Winter Classic fell by 10 percent from the 2009 New Year's match...
January 10, 2010 12:00 AM
On Wednesday John Tortorella said that he had no idea why the Rangers came up with their no-show against the Flyers, on Saturday Tortorella said he had no idea why the Rangers are unable to score, and though it is most...
January 04, 2010 12:00 AMThere is a baseball stadium in town other than the one in The Bronx, you know, and Gary Bettman knows it, too. Slap Shots has learned that if the NHL wants to bring the Winter Classic to New York on the first day...
January 03, 2010 12:00 AMIf it is true that pride goes before the fall, then if Glen Sather is too proud to admit his mistakes in signing Wade Redden, Michal Rozsival the second time and Donald Brashear, he has no place running the Rangers any...
January 01, 2010 12:00 AM
When was it exactly that the people making the personnel decisions for the Rangers came to the conclusion that size and strength are not necessary attributes for a team to thrive over the course of an 82-game season?...
December 28, 2009 12:00 AMThis was the decade in which the Devils, Lou Lamoriello, Martin Brodeur and Scott Stevens dominated hockey in our nook of the hockey world. It was the decade in which Jaromir Jagr established a presence in Manhattan...
December 27, 2009 12:00 AMThe Greatest Generation of American hockey players has all but receded into memory and ceremony. The boys who banded together to win the 1996 World Cup championship and the 2002 silver medal at the Salt Lake Olympics...
December 20, 2009 12:00 AMYes, Virginia, there is a Glen Sather, and he is the Rangers' GM this morning, just as he will be tomorrow morning, and the morning after that and the morning after that regardless of the outcome of any individual game...
December 18, 2009 12:00 AM
Back in the day, Rangers-Islanders made for some of the greatest and most compelling sports competition in our extended neighborhood. Once there were Bossy, Trottier, Potvin and Smith on one side and Davidson,...
December 17, 2009 12:00 AMJohn Tortorella came to New York with a reputation as the toughest sheriff around. He was going to be the demanding presence to hold players accountable no matter the names on the backs of their sweaters or the numbers...
December 17, 2009 12:00 AMIf Eric Lindros held a position of power within the NHL Players Association, does anyone for a moment believe the union would remain mum on the dominant issue of the season, that of player safety? Does anyone...
December 13, 2009 12:00 AMThe Rangers' problems are of their own making. More to the point, they fall more on the doorstep of general manager Glen Sather and coach John Tortorella than they do at the skates of the players who simply do not...
December 11, 2009 12:00 AMBUFFALO -- Derek Who? While a noted national sports publication has named some baseball player called Derek Jeter as Sportsman of the Year, our selection didn't establish a hallowed franchise record and he didn't...
December 06, 2009 12:00 AM
After the Rangers were routed in Tampa on Friday but before they were routed in Pittsburgh on Saturday, John Tortorella suggested that it was past time for the locker room to "take ownership" of the inconsistency that...
November 30, 2009 12:00 AM
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