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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.

Torts: 'We're not hard enough mentally'; Kreider, Asham update

John Tortorella looks on during practice at the

Photo credit: Patrick E. McCarthy

 

Here’s the overriding message from coach John Tortorella today:

 “The only thing we should focus on is our mindset…we’re not hard enough mentally, and that translates into hard enough physically.”

With Boston coming into the Garden on Wednesday, Tortorella shuffled some lines in practice, in part because Arron Asham did not skate with a mild groin strain, according...

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