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After the jump is the side of the Mask with Mike Richter

Update:3:23PM: John Tortorella says that Avery is being scratched because, per Andrew Gross
“We’ve asked him for a while now for more engagement,” Tortorella said. “And honestly we just haven’t seen it.”
Gross spoke to Avery who said:
“No, I don’t know. It’s not my decision. I just hope the guys come out and play hard tonight and [...]

The New York Post caught up with Rangers Radio man Kenny Albert and asked him five questions about the Rangers at this point in the season:
Q: What do the Rangers have to do to push that run to five years in a row?
A: It may be obvious, but Henrik Lundqvist and Marian Gaborik have to [...]

At Hockey’s Future, in their monthly “On The Rush” column, they list Rangers prospect Evgeny Grachev as someone “trailing the play” at the AHL level.
To date, Grachev has 12 goals and 14 assists through 64 games. Much of the difficulty can be attributed to typical problems for first-year pros. His play away from the puck, [...]

As a throw in in the Olli Jokinen trade, Brandon Prust was looked at as a fourth liner who was going to bring some toughness to the Rangers. He has, but he also added a goal on Wednesday night against the Devils and as Anthony Reiber of Newsday writes, that has earned him more ice [...]

The Rangers play the Atlanta Thrashers tonight, Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon and Montreal next Tuesday night.
They have 15 games remaining and Chris Drury says that the team knows what is going on and the situation that surrounds them:
“For a couple months we’ve been saying, the next game on our schedule is the biggest one of [...]

Yesterday we told you about the new design for Alex Auld’s mask which is an homage to great Ranger goalies of the past, Mike Richter, Eddie Giacomin and John Davidson.
After practice yesterday, Auld told Michael Obernauer and reporters how the design for the mask came to fruition:
“We thought about doing something with old masks,” Auld [...]

In the New York Post, Larry Brooks writes about the Rangers and their penchant for clinching playoff spots late in the season.
And the Rangers have succeeded in their mission each time, going 13-2-4 down the stretch in 2006-07 to clinch a spot in Game 81; 16-3-7 in 2007-08 to clinch a berth in Game 80; [...]

“It’s going to come,” Marian Gaborik said. “We’ll be good. We’ll be fine.”
From Dan Rosen of NHL.com
…Many people are tweeting and writing and saying that the Rangers season is over. Until the day they are officially eliminated from the playoffs, I will not be one of those people. It is not my belief, no matter [...]

Reporting from practice, Andrew Gross says that Olli Jokinen was still between Marian Gaborik and Vinny Prospal.
Brandon Prust, who scored last night, skated on a line with Chris Drury and Erik Christensen.
Sean Avery was relegated to the fourth line with the mish-mash of Jody Shelley, Brian Boyle, Enver Lisin and Aaron Voros.
Michal Rozsival took a [...]