Larry Brooks
Larry Brooks is a spor🌳ts ♏columnist at the New York Post.
Background
Larry was honored by the Hockey Hall of Fame as the 2018 recipient of the Elmer Ferguson Award bestowed upon writers, "who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey." Brooks' plaque is displayed in the Grand Hall of the HHOF.
Five times named one of Hockey's 100 People of Power and Influence by The Hockey News, Brooks holds the title of Senior Hockey Columnist and Rangers Writer for The New York Post while also serving as a baseball and tennis columnist during the summer. He is the author of the "Slap Shots" weekly NHL column Brooks has served two terms with the paper, first from 1976 through 1982 before rejoining The Post in 1994 after a decade as an executive with the New Jersey Devils hockey team.
A native of the Upper West Side who attended the Bronx High School of Science and CCNY, Brooks has broken numerous exclusives throughout his career. Those include the Rangers' signing of Wayne Gretzky as a free agent; Mark Messier's free agent signing with Vancouver; Gretzky's decision to retire following the 1998-99 season; the Rangers' decision to rebuild at the 2018 trade deadline; Henrik Lundqvist's retirement; and the firings of team president John Davidson and general manager Jeff Gorton plus the hiring of head coach Gerard Gallant.
Brooks, who has broken multiple labor negotiation-related excl🌠usives throughout his career, gave Lundqvist his nickname, "The King," after the third game of the goaltender's career.
Latest Articles
Touted prospect's arrival to Rangers is a full-circle Chris Kreider moment
This was a circle of life moment at t🅷he rink with Kreider paying it forward to Perreault after 🔯having Boyle do the same for him.
💛 What the Rangers should do about their perilous draft-pick dilemma
The Rangers owe a first-round draft pick this year or next, but their reality makes the choiceꦿ clear.
Rangers thrott꧂le Sharks to gain sole possession of final wild card spot
Artemi Panarin and Adam Fox each scored two goals, Jonathan Quick had 21 saves,ꦐ and the Rangers beat the Sharks 6-1 on Saturday night.
Rangers are set up to face a brutal draft choice co💙nundrum
🌼 There is an int💫eresting scenario regarding the Rangers and their overall position in the standings.
Defenseman returns to Rangers' lineup to face ex-team
Urho Vaakanainen, who had been a healthy scratch the previous three games, was reinstalled in the lineup for Friday night’s 5-4 OT loss to the Dཧucks.
Rangers blow late two-goal lead in crushing overtime loss toও Ducks 🧜
“Goඣod teams do not lose a game like that,” Adam Fox said after the Rangers' 5-4 overtime loss to the Ducks in which theyไ blew a 4-2 lead.
The Jacob Trouba lesson that Chris Drury desperately needs to learn before it's too late for Rangers
Chris Drury’s Greatest Mistake ♔will be on full display Friday when the Rangers face the Ducks.
Rangers 'have to be aware' of physical ex-captain in first meeting since messy divorce
♊ The Rangers face the Ducks and former captain Jacob Trouba on Friday, three-pl♊us months following their messy and public divorce.
Rangers hope towering bruiser's injury absence will be quick as coach lauds his development
The Rang🌸ers are hopeful that Matt Rempe, shut down with an upper body issue and designated as, “week to week” by the club, will be back sooner than then.
This Rangers team just doesn't have it in them
There is no evidence whatsoever that this dis🐬appointing group is engaged in a playoff pursuit.
Nicolas Aube-Kubel steps in for Rangers' new dad
🍌 Nicolas Aube-Kubel made his Rangers debut in Tuesday’s 3-1 loss to the Kings, replacing Sam Carrick, who stayed home to celebrate his son's birth.
Rangers b🎃egin road trip with loss to Kings, remain out of playoff spot
The Rangers’ 3-1 defeat to the Kings on Tuesdaꦓy left them a point behind the second wild card Canadiens, who were hammered 6-1 in St. Louis. ꧟
Rangers' math could still add up to a playoff berth
🐬 The Blueshirts entered Tuesday down one point (75-74) to Montreal with the Habs having 13 games remaining in the season to New York’s 11.
🍎 Fourth-line Rangers forward could miss his first game this season
The Rangers might be wi🦋thout S📖am Carrick for the first time this year on Tuesday against the Kings.
Rangers coach's practice decision never would have happened back in the day.
The universal outrage ov🅰er the Rangers’ lax effort in last Tuesday’s defeat to the Flames at the Garden was compounded the following day.
Now is the time for Rangers to right this 🎃number retirement wrong ꦇ
If there is ever a time to right the injustice that has perpetrated for d💟ecades, 𓄧it is now.
Rangers aren't doing former first-round pick — or themselves — any favors
Is it crazy to think that maybe the Rangers could use their top three centers in the🐼 middle and maybe even play a first-rounder with one of them?
Embarrassing Rangers effort putting perfect bow on lost season 🧔
The Rangers approached Tuesday night’s match vs. the Flames as if it were a preseason match in Septembཧer and not a critical match in the playoff race. ♎
What🌟 taking the playoff chase to the final da💯y has meant for the Rangers
This is a chase for a playoff spot that may go down to the season’s finဣal day. That has happened only five times in the Blueshirts’ 99-season history.
Ex-Ranger𓂃 in danger of missing his Garden return after entering concussion p🐭rotocol
Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet announced that𝕴 Filip Chytil has entered NHL concussion protocol