The collection, which is being sold by Heritage Auctions, includes Mike Bossys 1980 and '81 championship rings along with a number of game-worn jerseys and pucks.

Following back-to-back trips to the Elite Eight, NYU has finally begun play on its new court a Division I-quality facility, with a seating capacity of 2,000, tucked into the basement of the $1.2 billion, multi-use John A. Paulson Center.

It came as a pretty big surprise Wednesday to see the Islanders getting bag-skated following a physically demanding practice and the head coach devoting most of his press conference afterward to talking about trying to improve his teams compete level.

It may be time for the Rangers to change the alignment of top power-play unit that is stunting momentum.

As the trade deadline rumor mill begins to turn, the Rangers had a positive update on what will ultimately dictate how the club approaches March 8. Filip Chytil is on his way back to New York, The Post confirmed with a league source, after the Czech center spent the past three weeks in his home country recovering from a suspected concussion.

After the false start a couple weeks ago, everyone is being appropriately careful about what they say publicly. But it is becoming one of the sports most poorly kept secrets that Benoit Desrosiers is going to join Patrick Roy on Long Island.

Lane Lamberts unpopularity among New York Islanders fans was not just a matter of how the roster was constructed, though there are issues there, or replacing a popular coach in Barry Trotz, which did him no favors.

For the most part, a cone of silence has surrounded Filip Chytils status. This coming Thursday, it will be 11 weeks to the day since the Rangers center suffered a suspected concussion while bouncing off of Carolinas Jesper Fast in a mid-ice collision in which his head was never a point of contact.

In the case of the Islanders, they help confirm what the eye test tells us: This is a team that struggles to possess the puck.