New York Rangers

The New York Rangers have added veteran defenseman Roman Hamrlik. New York claimed the 38-year-old Hamrlik off waivers from the Washington Capitals one day after Marc Staal was struck in the right eye by a deflected puck in the third period of the Rangers' 4-2 win over the Flyers. Staal will be out indefinitely, but doctors said he would make a full recovery. The defenseman was not wearing a visor. Hamrlik, the active leader with 1,383 NHL games played, is in the final season of a two-year, $7 million contract.

Who: Flyers (7-4-1) vs. New York Rangers (6-4-1) When: 7 o'clock Where: Wells Fargo Center TV: Comcast SportsNet Radio: WIP (610-AM)

Phil Kessel scored twice to lead the host Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-3 win over the New York Rangers on Monday night to open an important home-and-home series between the Eastern Conference rivals. Toronto remained fifth in the Eastern Conference standings, moving four points ahead of idle Ottawa. The Rangers remain tied with the idle New York Islanders for seventh in the Eastern Conference. Also in the East: The host Boston Bruins topped the Carolina Hurricanes, 6-2, and moved one point ahead of Montreal in the Northeast Division.

Ryan Callahan scored the decisive shootout goal and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 34 shots to lead the New York Rangers to a 1-0 win over the host Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday night. Callahan scored in the fifth round of the shootout by driving in on Ryan Miller, leaning to his right, and snapping a shot into the open left side. Both goalies earned a shutout, with Miller stopping 29 shots through overtime. It was Lundqvist's sixth shutout of the season, and his third in his last five starts.

Ryan Callahan's goal 2 minutes, 55 seconds into overtime gave the New York Rangers a 4-3 victory over the host Carolina Hurricanes Thursday night, locking up a playoff berth for the Rangers. Derek Stepan, Derick Brassard, and Brad Richards scored the other New York goals, Richards' tally coming at 17:03 of the third period to force OT. Jiri Tlusty scored twice and Tuomo Ruutu added a goal for Carolina.   Senators clinch spot Sergei Gonchar scored 47 seconds into overtime, Erik Karlsson set up Ottawa's first goal in his sooner-than-anticipated return from a torn Achilles tendon, and the Senators clinched a playoff berth by beating the Washington Capitals, 2-1. Craig Anderson made 19 saves.

Sid the Kid is back. Sidney Crosby, the Pittsburgh Penguins star, plans to play against the New York Rangers on Thursday, his first game in more than three months following a second lengthy bout with concussion-like symptoms. On Tuesday, the 24-year-old center worked out with teammates and got bumped around enough that he feels prepared for the grind of the final month of the regular season and the playoffs. "I'm just trying to make sure I progress and remain symptom-free," he said.

The surging New York Rangers have been running away with the Eastern Conference and now they are picking up points even when they aren't playing up to the high standard they have set. "We're playing our third game in two-and-a-half days, and they're not all going to be pretty," Rangers coach John Tortorella said after the Rangers outlasted the Boston Bruins, 4-3, Sunday at Madison Square Garden. Derek Stepan and Marian Gaborik both scored tiebreaking goals in the third period, and the Rangers held on after losing in overtime at Tampa Bay on Friday.

Jussi Jokinen certainly knows how to make an entrance. The newly acquired Pittsburgh forward scored a goal in regulation in his debut and then added the only tally in the shootout as the Penguins edged the New York Rangers, 2-1, on Friday night. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 34 shots and then stoned Rick Nash, Mats Zuccarello and Ryan Callahan in the shootout.   Sabres stop Senators Brian Flynn and Jochen Hecht scored third-period goals 12 seconds apart, and the host Buffalo Sabres rallied to beat the Ottawa Senators, 4-2. Buffalo (15-17-6)

The Boston Bruins turned back Toronto's comeback with a rally of their own. Trailing by three goals in the third period and still down by two with less than 90 seconds left in their season, the host Bruins scored twice in a span of 31 seconds to tie it and then eliminated the Maple Leafs on Patrice Bergeron's goal at 6 minutes, 5 seconds of overtime to win, 5-4, in Game 7 on Monday night. "It was one of the crazy ones I've been part of," said Bergeron, who assisted on Milan Lucic's goal with 1:22 in regulation and scored to tie it with 51 seconds left in the third.

Michael Del Zotto scored a shorthanded goal and set up Rick Nash's game-winner to lead the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the struggling New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night in Newark. Carl Hagelin also scored and Henrik Lundqvist had 29 saves as the Rangers won their second game in two nights after a three-game losing streak. New York moved into a tie for eighth place in the Eastern Conference, the cutoff point for the playoffs. Travis Zajac and Anton Volchenkov scored for New Jersey, which lost its third in a row (0-2-1)

ROGER FEDERER won his first title of the year, overcoming a sluggish start to beat unseeded Mikhail Youzhny, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4, at the Gerry Weber Open yesterday in Halle, Germany. Returning to grass in his favorite warmup for Wimbledon, the top-seeded Federer looked lethargic until the middle of the second set, when he started hitting shots with confidence. Federer won his first title since Cincinnati in August and his sixth in Halle, the first since 2008. Four of Federer's seven Wimbledon titles have come after victories in Halle.

AGENDA STANLEY CUP FINALS Chicago Blackhawks (36-7-5) vs. Boston Bruins (28-14-6). (Best-of-seven; x-if necessary) TV: NBC, Games 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7; NBC Sports Network, Games 2 and 3. Game 1: Tonight Bruins at Blackhawks, 8 Game 2: Saturday Bruins at Blackhawks, 8 p.m. Game 3: Monday Blackhawks at Bruins, 8 p.m. Game 4: Wednesday, June 19 Blackhawks at Bruins, 8 p.m. x-Game 5: Saturday, June 22...

CHICAGO - Two franchises, rich in history, talent and star power. Two winning teams that know what it takes to bring home the Stanley Cup. Intrigue, in the form of a schedule that kept them away from each other for an entire season. Oh, there's plenty to love about this series. The Stanley Cup Finals start Wednesday night when the Chicago Blackhawks host the Boston Bruins in the first Finals matchup of Original Six franchises since Montreal beat the New York Rangers in five games in 1979.

NEW YORK - John Tortorella was defiant in stating that the New York Rangers didn't take a step back when they were knocked out of the Stanley Cup playoffs in the second round. General manager Glen Sather thought otherwise and fired the combative coach yesterday. The fiery Tortorella was let go 4 days after the Rangers' season ended with a Game 5 loss to the Boston Bruins. New York had reached the Eastern Conference finals last year. "I came up with the decision that I really needed to do something to improve our team going forward," Sather said during a conference call.

Tuukka Rask stopped 28 shots, Gregory Campbell scored twice, and the host Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers, 3-1, in Game 5 on Saturday to advance to the Eastern Conference finals. The Bruins will face the Pittsburgh Penguins for the right to play for the Stanley Cup. Recent call-up Torey Krug scored his fourth goal of the series for Boston, which reached the third round of the NHL playoffs for the second time since 1992. The other was 2011, when the Bruins won the sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history.

CHRIS KREIDER steered in a pass from Rick Nash 7:03 into overtime, and the New York Rangers stayed alive in the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 4-3 victory over visiting Boston last night. New York, which erased 2-0 and 3-2 deficits in the critical Game 4 matchup in the Eastern Conference semifinals, still trails the series 3-1. The Rangers will need to win again tomorrow in Boston to force a Game 6 back in Madison Square Garden. The Rangers, who were outshot 40-32, won a faceoff deep in their zone, and Nash rushed the puck up ice. He stopped above the right circle and fed a hard pass in front that Kreider skated into and tipped past goalie Tuukka Rask for his first goal of the playoffs.

IT TOOK 40 years for Original Six rivals Boston and the New York Rangers to face off again in the playoffs. Beantown's Bruins seem intent on wrapping up the long-awaited get-together in a hurry. Daniel Paille scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:31 left in the third period - after defenseman Johnny Boychuk got the Bruins even earlier in the frame - and Boston put the Rangers on the brink of elimination with a 2-1 victory in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series last night at Madison Square Garden.

COLIN GREENING scored 7:39 into the second overtime, and the Ottawa Senators rallied for a 2-1 victory over the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins that cut their series deficit to 2-1 last night. Daniel Alfredsson got Ottawa even at 1-1 by scoring a short-handed goal with 29 seconds left in regulation just after the Senators pulled goalie Craig Anderson for an extra skater. "We were just calm," Anderson said of the Senators' mood heading into overtime. "We had tied it up. We had momentum.

BRAD MARCHAND scored with 4:20 left in the first overtime and the Bruins beat the New York Rangers last night in Boston, 3-2, in the first playoff game in 40 years between the Original Six teams. Marchand, Boston's top goal scorer in the regular season, got his first of the postseason on a pass from Patrice Bergeron. Marchand had carried the puck up the right side, passed it to Bergeron and kept going toward the net. Bergeron passed across the slot and Marchand tipped it past goalie Henrik Lundqvist from the left side of the crease.