After a victory on Saturday that failed to galvanize the fans in the sold-out arena, the Rangers came out the next night with an attacking storm that brought the crowd of to its feet.

On Sunday, Brandon Sugden, a career minor league enforcer, was cut from another N.H.L. training camp, his seventh.

The dressing room of actor Thorsten Kaye is a shrine to his favorite hockey team.

Markus Naslund and Brandon Dubinsky scored to lift the Rangers to victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning in the opening game of the N.H.L. regular season in the capital of the Czech Republic.

The Penguins are already showing signs of the hangover that afflicts teams that lose in the finals — losing key players to free agency and major injuries.