Cooper is set to coach his first game on Friday against the New Jersey Devils.
The New Jersey Devils were still scheduled to host the Pittsburgh Penguins at 1 p.m.
The Rangers also kept pace with the New York Islanders, who beat the New Jersey Devils 3-1.
Kulikov scored at 1:43 of overtime and the Panthers beat the New Jersey Devils 3-2 on Saturday.
The Prudential Center, home to the NHL's New Jersey Devils, is about 12 miles from MetLife Stadium.
Louis Rams, New Jersey Devils and Atlanta Thrashers, the insider trading scandal comes at a particularly bad time.
The New Jersey Devils, on the other hand, couldn't feel any worse after absorbing their ninth straight loss.
This time they have Vyacheslav Fetisov, the assistant coach of the New Jersey Devils, the players pick, at the helm.
The Rangers lost in the Eastern Conference finals last year to the New Jersey Devils, for whom Oates was an assistant coach.
New Jersey Devils could win the Stanley Cup Finals, and in that aftermath, banks could seize the club and sell it.
The New Jersey Devils were set to lose a fortune last season before reaching the Stanley Cup finals and turning a slight profit.
He was a head coach in the East Coast Hockey League, and was also an assistant for the New Jersey Devils in 1995-96.
And with the New Jersey Devils ousting the New York Rangers in the sixth game of the Eastern Conference Finals last night, there is no Stanley Cup action on Sunday.
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By beating the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 on Saturday in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals, the New Jersey Devils have done what seemed so improbable just five days ago.
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The 2012 NHL playoffs were wildly entertaining with a sixth seed (New Jersey Devils) and eighth seed (Los Angeles Kings) squaring off for the Cup with the Kings winning in six games.
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The Islanders took another step toward the postseason Monday night as Frans Nielsen set up two early goals and Evgeni Nabokov made 24 saves in a 3-1 win over the New Jersey Devils.
Showing signs of being pushovers no longer, the Sabres got timely goals and clutch saves, and they displayed resilience in pulling out a 4-3 shootout win over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday.
Not since they brought him out to East Rutherford to drop the puck for the home opener of the 1995-96 season, the one right after the New Jersey Devils won their first Stanley Cup.
The Kings lost to the New Jersey Devils 3 to 1 in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals Wednesday, in a game that could have clinched L.A's improbable run to its first ever Stanley Cup Championship.
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Ratings were down for last year's finals with the Los Angeles Kings and New Jersey Devils despite having two teams from large markets after the first three rounds of the playoffs attracted the largest average audience since 1997.
The Rangers won their second straight home game, scoring a combined 10 goals in the victories after a pair of shutout losses, and moved into a tie with the New Jersey Devils and New York Islanders with 39 points at the bottom of the Eastern Conference playoff race.
Now the Rangers will look to build on this win as they get set to face the Devils in New Jersey on Tuesday.
Notes: Former Devils captain Muller returned to New Jersey for the first time as the head coach of the Hurricanes.
The Islanders and seventh-place Devils each have 39 points but New Jersey has a game in hand.
On Monday night, in a loud reprise of the famous Rangers-Devils 1994 conference final, he shut out New Jersey 3-0 in Game 1.
Tlusty scored two goals in the third period and Cam Ward made 26 saves as the Hurricanes beat the Devils 4-2 on Tuesday night, snapping New Jersey's five-game winning streak.
While the Devils have missed the playoffs twice in three years, New Jersey has been left out of the tournament only two times in 16 seasons.
His tally was an overtime winner in a 4-3 victory over the Flyers, giving New Jersey a 3-1 lead in a second-round series the Devils eventually won in five games.
His best save was an uncontested pad stop on a rebound attempt by Steve Sullivan, who was acquired by the Devils on Wednesday from Phoenix for a second tour with New Jersey.
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