Donald Brashear News

Great at St. Louis. Great against New York. 2. Calgary LW Nigel Dawes: First game versus old mates.

It's clear by now that, provided he stays healthy, Marion Gaborik is headed for a 40-plus goal season.

Sean Avery's return to the scene of the crime turned out to be nothing. The Rangers pest had very little to offer.

Gaborik, off to a terrific start for the Rangers with 12 goals and nine assists, saw a familiar face last night: Flames defenseman Robin Regehr, prized for his ability to shut down offensive players with his 6-3, 230-pound frame and physical play.

Ales Kotalik had a goal and two assists, and the New York Rangers halted a four-game, road-losing streak with a 4-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night.

Betts and Fredrik Sjostrom were not re-signed after helping anchor the league's No.

After going through the first month and 15 games of the season with Ryan Callahan as the team's only alternate captain, the Rangers awarded an "A" to Vinny Prospal before last night's match here against the Canucks.

Rick Rypien scored the go-ahead goal 8:48 into the third period, the first of three late goals that lifted the Vancouver Canucks to a 4-1 victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday night.

Artem Anisimov might be getting fourth-line minutes, but that doesn't mean that the freshman center isn't developing in that role.

Brandon Dubinsky controls the puck in a game earlier this season against Anaheim .

"For the first five or six minutes there in the second, I thought we were coming back," said coach John Tortorella .

Islanders captain Doug Weight, in his first game back following a bout with swine flu, earned an assist on Kyle Okposo's tiebreaking, power-play goal in the second period that lifted New York to a 3-1 victory over the New York Rangers on Wednesday night.

The New York Rangers beat the Phoenix Coyotes, 5-2, at Madison Square Garden on Monday night.

The New York Rangers will try to put the brakes on a three- game losing streak tonight when they welcome the Phoenix Coyotes for an interconference battle at Madison Square Garden.

Enver Lisin, sent airborne by the Sharks' Kent Huskins, had a third-period goal for the Rangers.

They had survived a week of living dangerously against inferior opponents Toronto and L.A., but the Rangers sure weren't able to surmount their deficiencies against the superior Sharks.

Cammalleri hatrick sinks Rangers Montreal Canadiens' Michael Cammalleri, left, Brian Gionta Tomas Plekanec, of Czech Republic, and Romam Hamerlik, of Czech Republic, celebrate a goal against the New York Rangers during second period NHL hockey action in Montreal, Saturday, October 24, 2009.

One of the qualities of good teams is that they can win the games in which they don't play particularly well.

Devin Setoguchi scored for the San Jose Sharks, beating Rangers goalie Steve Valiquette for the his first of two second period goals.

The issue of goaltender interference that has been a prominent one for the Rangers the first two weeks of the season is on the radar of the NHL hockey operations department in Toronto.