The team is a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL).
During that time, the Rangers reached the 1950 Stanley Cup Finals, where they lost to the Detroit Red Wings.
In the 1970s, the Rangers made the Stanley Cup Finals twice, but were defeated by the Boston Bruins in 1972 and by the Montreal Canadiens in 1979.
New York earned its third Presidents' Trophy with a then-team record 113 points in 2014–15,[6] but was eliminated in the conference finals in seven games by the Tampa Bay Lightning.
In 2023–24, the Rangers won their fourth Presidents' Trophy with a team-record 114 points, but the Florida Panthers defeated them in the conference finals in six games.