The Super Bowl wasn't the only event involving local teams on Sunday — there were also two hockey games. At Madison Square Garden, the Rangers defeated the Flyers, 5-2, for the fourth consecutive time this season and the sixth time in a row going back to last season. In a physical game with four fights, the Rangers pulled away from a 2-2 tie with Philadelphia by scoring three goals in the 3rd period. more ›

The Knicks kicked off a stretch of three games in three nights by almost beating the Bulls. New York had several shots at tying the game in the waning seconds, but couldn't connect and Chicago prevailed 104-102. Amar'e may have had his best game of the season, scoring 34 points and pulling down 11 rebounds. Carmelo poured in 26, but had another off night shooting, hitting only 10-for-26. The defense didn't show up again as Chicago shot 52% from the field. New York faces Boston tonight on the road. more ›

Knicks 113, Pistons 86: With Carmelo Anthony back in the lineup, the Knicks were able to snap a three-game losing streak. Anthony had 25 points and 6 assists (!!) in the win, New York's second in its last eleven games. Luckily, they were playing Detroit, one of the teams with a more dismal record (4-19) than the Knicks (8-13). more ›

GOAL! The rumors were (sort of) true! Hockey is really coming to Brooklyn...for at least one game. Yup, despite concerns that the Barclays Center was too small for regulation hockey, the much-maligned Atlantic Yards stadium has announced that on October 2, 2012 the Islanders are going to play the New Jersey Devils. In Brooklyn! more ›

John Tavares entered Monday with a 12-game points streak, but the Islanders didn't score a goal in a 3-0 loss to Toronto. So ends the longest such streak in the NHL this season. The Islanders also saw their run of three straight wins snapped. Toronto scored first 1:37 into the game and never looked back. more ›

Nuggets 119, Knicks 114 (2 OT): When Mike D'Antoni and Knicks fans looked at the Denver Nuggets on the floor of Madison Square Garden, they saw what could have been — a young team thriving behind players that were in New York just a season ago. Instead, the team that graces The Garden is 6-10 and struggling under the bloated contract and horrid shooting of Carmelo Anthony. Former Knicks Danilo Gallinari (37 points) and Al Harrington (24 points) both lit up their former team. As for Carmelo? He had a double double (25 points, 10 rebounds), but was just 10 of 30 in field goal attempts. Oh, what could have been. more ›

Henrik Lundqvist made 27 saves for the shutout as the Rangers took care of the Predators, 3-0. The victors got one goal in each period. Dan Girardi scored in the first and then John Mitchell and Ryan Callahan (empty-netter) followed suit. The Rangers, who had lost two of three, including one to the lowly Canadiens, looked much sharper Garden on Tuesday. They have Pittsburgh on Thursday before a trip to the defending champion Bruins on Saturday. more ›

The Rangers returned to their winning ways after a loss to Ottawa the other night. New York dominated Toronto, out-shooting them 30-20 as they cruised to a 3-0 victory. Marty Biron pitched the shutout while Mike Rupp, Brian Boyle and Derek Stepan had the Rangers' goals. more ›

Rarely do the Knicks win a low-scoring affair. But that's just what they did Wednesday in an 85-79 win over the 76ers that snapped Philadelphia's six-game winning streak. They got excellent production from Carmelo Anthony (27 points and nine rebounds) and Amare Stoudemire (20 and 10). Anthony wasn't too efficient, shooting only 9-for-24 from the floor, but the Knicks will take it. The Knicks shot 22 3-pointers but only made six of them. That's OK. They visit Memphis on Thursday. more ›

Every NBA team has a tightly packed schedule this season, and the Knicks finished a stretch of three games in four nights. But building a 29-poitn lead against the Pistons helped them rest Carmelo Anthony in the fourth quarter of a 103-80 win over the Pistons. Amare Stoudemire had 22 points to lead everyone, and Mike Bibby had 16 points off the bench. more ›

The Knicks did everything they could, but even they couldn't lose to a pathetic Washington club. Carmelo Anthony hit a huge three-pointer with 15 seconds left to give the Knicks a one-point lead and they held on for a 99-96 victory. Anthony scored 37 points while Amar'e added 23, but only shot 9-for-21 from the field. The defense had another off night as they allowed Washington to shoot over 48% from the field. more ›

Amar'e Stoudemire and Iman Shumpert returned to the Knicks' lineup on Wednesday, and they gave the offense a boost. But they didn't help the defense in 118-110 loss to Charlotte. Stoudemire, who missed two games with a sprained ankle, had 25 points and 12 rebounds. Shumpert, expected to be out much longer after hurting his knee on Christmas, had 18 points off the bench. Carmelo Anthony had 32, but most of those were in garbage time. Charlotte shot 55.3 percent from the floor and made seven of 11 3-pointers. more ›

A sprained ankle kept Amar'e Stoudemire out, but the Knicks had no trouble defeating the Kings in a 114-92 rout in California's state capital. Carmelo Anthony led the way with 23 points, and he had help from Landry Fields (21) and Tyson Chandler (22 points and seven rebounds). The Knicks salvaged the final game of their three-game trip on the West Coast. They will they will not travel farther than San Antonio in the rest of this lockout shortened season. Stoudemire is day to day, but given his slow start, the team may not miss him as much as people think. more ›

Yet again, the Rangers had a winning streak snapped. That's becoming a theme this season. (But that's not really a bad thing.) They fell, 4-1, in Washington in a playoff rematch. Marian Gaborik, who had scored in each of the Rangers' five wins, did not have a goal in this game. Brandon Dubinsky scored for only the third time this season toat ward the end of the first period. The Rangers fell behind for good when Ryan McDonagh helped screen Martin Biron on Troy Brouwer's tiebreaking goal. Biron made 23 saves while giving Henrik Lundqvist a rest. more ›

The Rangers pulled into a tie for first in the Atlantic with a 4-2 win over Philadelphia. Derek Stepan and Ruslan Fedotenko scored in the second period to put New York up 2-0 and Marian Gaborik added a huge goal early in the third to give the Rangers an insurmountable lead. Henrik Lundqvist made 28 saves, including 11 in the third period to earn the win. more ›

With two goals from Marian Gaborik and a short-handed strike from Carl Hagelin helped the Rangers to a 4-1 win over the Devils in Newark. Gaborik, who tallied his 600th career point, also assisted on Artem Anisimov's second-period goal. That tied the game at 1, and the Rangers didn't look back. Gaborik put the Rangers ahead before five minutes had elapsed in the third period (he got an assist from Anisimov as well) and Hagelin's fourth goal of the season helped remove doubt with 5:18 to go. Travis Zajac scored the Devils goal in the first period. Patrik Elias was ill and did not play for New Jersey. The teams will meet five more times before the season ends. more ›

Marian Gaborik had two goals and Brad Richards netted the game-winner with one-tenth of a second remaining as the Rangers stunned the Coyotes, 3-2, in Arizona.. The loss snapped a two-game losing streak that had seen the Rangers score only one goal in 120 minutes. The Rangers trailed by a goal entering the third period, but Gaborik scored early in the period before Richards' game-winner. Video replay was needed, but the Rangers got the two points. more ›

The Devils honored one of their greats, Scott Niedermayer, before the game and saw another, Zach Parise lead them to victory in the game. Parise assisted on the first three Devils' goals and scored their fifth as New Jersey cruised to a 6-3 victory over Dallas. His heroics gave Johan Hedberg his tenth win of the year. more ›

What warmed up the Devils, who entered Monday's game losers of five of seven? How about the even-colder Lightning. New Jersey won, 5-4, with five different players scoring. Zach Parise and Adam Henrique both had a goal and two assists. Petr Sykora, Ilya Kovalchuk and Dainius Zubrus had the other goals. The Devils led, 2-0, after five minutes, 38 seconds but gave that lead back before the first intermission. They then blew the game open in the second and were never in danger of losing despite two third-period Lightning goals. more ›

For the first time in two seasons, the Rangers scored two short-handed in goals in one game. Carl Hagelin and Ryan Callahan each scored while the Sabres were on a power play in a 4-1 win over the the Sabres. Callahan added a goal at normal strength later, and Marian Gaborik threw in his 14th strike of the season. The last time the Rangers had two short-handed goals in the same period was March 6, 1997, when Bill Berg and Niklas Sundstrom scored. more ›

Mark Streit had two assists and Al Montoya was stingy between the pipes as the Islanders beat Tampa Bay 5-1. more ›

Wild 4, Devils 2: It was not a good night for Martin Brodeur as the Devils netminder didn't last past the first period in Friday night's game. The Devils took an early one-goal lead on a Zach Parise goal, but the Wild quickly took the lead with three consecutive goals, chasing Brodeur out of the game after just eight minutes of play. While New Jersey would add another goal, they were never able to overcome the three-goal flurry. more ›

With three goals in the first period against Martin Brodeur, the Colorado Avalanche removed all doubt early in a 6-1 win over the Devils in Denver. Of the first five shots faced by Brodeur, three went in the net. Ilya Kovalchuk tried to make a game of it by cutting a three-goal deficit to two in the second period, but the Avalanche simply added three more. The Devils had only 19 shots for the entire game. They have three games left on this road trip, including Friday's trip to Minnesota. more ›

It was easy to see that the Flyers and Rangers do not like each other. Just four seconds into the game, the gloves came off and they did so again later in the first period. But things settled down after that and New York came away with a 2-0 victory. The game had plenty of subplots, but one that didn't materialize was Jaromir Jagr's return to MSG. Jagr was a scratch with an injury, but with two more home games remaining against Philadelphia, it seems certain that Rangers' fans will get a chance to "welcome" Jaromir back to New York. more ›