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In an eight-game stretch filled with revenge and fixing wrongs to start the season, Thursday will mark another chance for the Rangers.
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Thursday → fill → Rangers
They already won at home, stringing together five consecutive victories at the Garden after a miserable campaign there last year.
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They → win → campaign
They started to shift the Battle of New York after getting swept in 2024-25 with a commanding victory against the Islanders.
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They → start → Islanders
And Thursday, after dropping two of three games to the Devils last year and consistently getting tormented by superstar Jack Hughes, the Blueshirts will have a chance to take the first game of this year’s edition of the Battle of the Hudson.
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Blueshirts → drop → Hudson
tRY IT NOW“His speed, his puck-handling ability, his playmaking ability — he’s a guy that plays in motion a lot,” head coach Mike Sullivan, who coached Hughes with Team USA and called him “dynamic,” said after practice Wednesday.
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who → try → practice
“If Jack has the ability to play three-quarters of the ice, he’s really dangerous, and so I think we’ve gotta do our best to force him to play goal line to goal line and have to go through numbers to get through the scoring area because he’s a unique player in how he plays the game.”
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he → have → game
Hughes, who was selected No. 1 overall in 2019 one pick before the Rangers selected Kaapo Kakko, has collected 35 points in 26 regular-season games against the Blueshirts.
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Rangers → select → Blueshirts
Since the Rangers’ struggles began following their run to the Eastern Conference finals in 2024, the Devils have trolled them, too, on social media — including in December 2024, when they wrote, “Safe travels across the Hudson” with a GIF of a dumpster on fire following a 5-0 victory.
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they → begin → victory
The outlook, even just two weeks into the season, has started to look different, though.
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outlook → start → season
The Rangers sat in second in the Eastern Conference with 12 points entering play Wednesday.
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Rangers → sit → play
But they still have Hughes, who already has eight points — including two goals — in six games and who emerged as the Olympic hero with his game-winning goal against Canada to help Team USA take gold in Milan.
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USA → have → Milan
And in order for the Rangers to temporarily take their place atop the New York City-area hockey hierarchy, they’ll need to reverse their struggles with containing him that have spanned seasons and coaching staffs.
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that → take → seasons
The Rangers’ quest to unlock Pavel Dorofeyev — whom they acquired on draft night from the Golden Knights and then signed to a $77 million deal — continued in practice Wednesday, when they moved him to the bumper spot on the first power-play unit and shifted Alexis Lafrenière to the flank opposite Mika Zibanejad.
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they → unlock → Zibanejad
Dorofeyev, who scored 72 goals the last two seasons and had 20 with the man advantage last year, managed just one tally through the Rangers’ first eight games.
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who → score → games
“The question that I’m trying to answer, and this is the discussion the coaching staff had is, how do we maximize [Dorofeyev’s] greatest attribute, which is his scoring ability,” Sullivan said, while reiterating that he still believes Dorofeyev will score goals for the Rangers.
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Dorofeyev → try → Rangers
The Rangers recalled Justin Dowling to serve as their center on the fourth line and assigned 20-year-old Cole Beaudoin to AHL Hartford.
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Rangers → recall → Hartford
Beaudoin logged just 3:29 of ice time Tuesday and he’ll get a chance to log more minutes near the top of the lineup with the Wolf Pack.
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he → log → Pack
The Aporia
