Marc Staal

Kings Coach Darryl Sutter says players should use face shields

2013-03-07 15:12:00

Kings Coach Darryl Sutter spent weeks in a Minnesota hospital early in his playing career with the Chicago Blackhawks when he was hit in the face on a shot by teammate Doug Wilson. Sutter had a fractured cheekbone and a damaged left eye. He ended up...

Rusty Klesla talks safety issues after Marc Staal gets hit in eye

2013-03-06 16:24:00

You can cue up more than a few cringe-worthy clips on YouTube of Coyotes defenseman Rusty Klesla getting hit in the face last season. After one painful incident, he returned to action wearing a full cage, for extra protection. Klesla played for the...

Watch Rangers' Marc Staal get hit hard in the eye with puck

2013-03-06 11:00:00

New York Rangers defenseman Marc Staal suffered a gruesome injury Tuesday night, when the puck hit his right eye after a hard slapshot by Philadelphia's Kimmo Timonen. Timonen's shot from the blue line clipped the stick of Flyers forward Jake Voracek...

Watch sideline reporter John Giannone get hit by puck at NHL game

2013-02-08 11:10:00

John Giannone, a sideline reporter who covers the New York Rangers for the MSG Network, took a puck to the face during the Rangers’ 4-1 win over the New York Islanders on Thursday, but it barely made him flinch. Rangers defenseman Marc Staal...

NHL All-Star skills contest participants chosen

2011-01-29 16:33:16

The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), Chip Alexander column

2013-05-17 02:34:02

The Carolina Hurricanes' season was derailed, in part, thanks to knee injuries to goaltender Cam Ward and defenseman Justin Faulk. Now, Canes captain Eric Staal is hurt. Staal suffered an apparent knee injury Thursday in Canada's quarterfinal game...

NHL playoffs: At long last, Brassard looks like a star

2013-05-16 06:54:03

It was on April 3 that Derick Brassard pulled a blue shirt of a different tint over his shoulders and began to push his career to new heights. Traded from the Blue Jackets to the New York Rangers just hours earlier, Brassard on that day became a...

Matching up the Bruins-Rangers series

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Boston and New York are natural geographical rivals, and that has always extended to the cities' sports teams. There are the Red Sox and Yankees, of course. The Celtics and Knicks have had their battles through the decades. And the Patriots have been...

Lundqvist, Rangers blank Caps to win series

2013-05-14 00:00:00

The home team had won every game in this series, except for the last one. Backed by Henrik Lundqvist's second straight shutout and an offense that finally came alive on the road, the New York Rangers took a 5-0 win over the Washington Capitals in Game 7...

Capitals top Rangers 2-1 in OT, take series lead

2013-05-10 20:19:00

The New York Rangers scored their only goal in the first minute. Then the Washington Capitals made home-ice advantage work. And in this series, home ice has been critical. Nine minutes, 24 seconds into overtime, Mike Ribeiro was stationed by the...

Marc Staal, still recovering from eye injury, sits out

2013-05-11 00:24:03

Defenseman Marc Staal, struggling with vision problems, did not dress for Game 5 Friday night and could not say when he might rejoin the Rangers lineup. Staal, who played 17 minutes in Game 3, then pulled himself out of Game 4 after the morning skate...

Rick Nash has been held in check through four games by Capitals

2013-05-10 00:24:02

Like metal filings pulled to a magnet, Capitals forwards are congregating on Rick Nash. "They're shrinking the zone," said Nash, the elite power forward who has one assist -- on Derek Stepan's Game 3 winner -- in four games against Washington. "To...

New York Rangers center Artem Anisimov, right, celebrates after Marc Staal's overtime goal slid past Washington Capitals goalie Braden Holtby to give the Rangers a 3-2 victory over in Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference semifinals, at Madison Square Garden in New York on Monday.

2012-05-08 20:11:00

Pittsburgh Penguins' Evgeni Malkin (71) collides with New York Rangers' Marc Staal (18) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh on Thursday.

2012-04-05 20:40:00

New York Rangers ' Marc Staal drives Washington Capitals ' Jason Chimera into the boards during first period play in Game 4 of their NHL Eastern Conference hockey playoffs. (REUTERS/Ray Stubblebin)

2011-04-20 00:00:00