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Steve Zipay takes you inside the locker room, home and on the road, with the New York Rangers, and also writes about the NHL, off and on the ice.

Saturday serenade...and solutions?

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman leaves following labor talks

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If all the world’s a stage, as the bard wrote, and all the men and women are merely players, we are firmly in another intermission in the NHL’s approximation of “As You Like It”.

The tempest certainly swept in on Thursday, with the attendant melodrama: Donald Fehr---flanked by the ice soldiers---essentially proclaiming a deal was close. Then the dark voice mail from the enemy, a reassembling...

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