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John Tortorella came to New York with a reputation as the toughest sheriff around.

When the Rangers hired John Tortorella in February, Tortorella promised his team was going to take off under his style of offense.

NEW YORK, NY -- Come on Ranger fans, already? Be serious! Once the Rangers went on to start the season on a HUGE winning streak I knew it was setting themselves up for another fall.

I need a ventilator from all your venting. OK, that wasn't that funny. Let's look at the vents I enjoyed the most from this week: jacobsaltiel: Dear Pierre, my three favorite hockey commentators are Mike Boone, Elliotte Friedman and you.

JANUARY "There's a way we have to play from A-Z to be effective and we missed a couple of letters." -- Ranger coach Tom Renney goes alphabetical in describing loss to Penguins.

The holiday season in New York City tends to be a good time for Broadway as out-of-towners stream into the city to see the tree at Rockefeller Center , do a bit of shopping and catch a show before heading back home.

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 has marked the past six weeks.

After four games on the road, the Rangers return home Monday night for another crack at the Penguins.

Whatever feelings a ' special or otherwise a ' John Tortorella has about coaching his first game at Tampa Bay since the Lightning fired him are immaterial as far as hea TMs concerned.

Fired Lightning coach John Tortorella plays Tampa Bay tonight for the first time since the Rangers hired him.

Rangers coach John Tortorella says his main focus for Friday's game is to capture team's third straight win over Tampa Bay Lightning.

It was a popular marketing phrase just a little while ago as the National Hockey League sought to maximize its many assets in a series of commercials asking whether or not "this could be the year" when certain players and teams excelled, certain records might fall and certain rivalries, especially among the Original Six, 12, 18, 21 etc.

John Tortorella was supposed to change everything for the Rangers. Where previous coach Tom Renney coached with a conservative, defensive posture, Tortorella is all about risk and offense.

Oh right. The Rangers already did that last year. But then why is it almost impossible to tell the difference between the team that got defense-minded Tom Renney fired in February and the one now coached by offense-inclined John Tortorella that has scored two goals or fewer in eight of the last 10 games while going 3-7 in the process? The ...

Jed Ortmeyer of the San Jose Sharks never dreamed he would make it to the National Hockey League.

It may not be acknowledged, and the coach may not admit it, but the Rangers have played a different style of hockey since Chris Drury and Brandon Dubinsky went down with injuries on Nov.

NEW YORK - The first quarter of the Rangers' season hasn't gone as well as the first quarter of the season went for the Giants and Jets.

Edmonton's Ethan Moreau, left, scored the team's only goal in the 3-1 loss to the New York Islanders on Monday.

The Rangers are among the handful of NHL teams watching Peter Forsberg very closely when the 36-year-old free-agent center tests his chronically injured right foot in the Karjala Cup tournament that opens today in Sweden and will conclude over the weekend in Finland, The Post has learned.

That could become an issue here, where Oilers associate coach Tom Renney said yesterday that trainers believe that six of his dozen players who were sick recently had contracted the swine flu virus.