Rangers, and Fans, Expecting Surprise Season to Continue
Back in August or September or even October, if somebody said the Rangers would be 31-17-1 after 49 games, you’d have run for the pen and yelled, “Where do I sign?” Right? You’d almost certainly, also, have been thinking that 31-17-1 would be good enough for first place in the Metropolitan Division, and not fourth […]
Broad Street Beats Broadway … This Time Around
FLYERS 2, RANGERS 0 Hockey games often can be decided by motivation — along with superb goaltending, plus an extra goal or two over the foe. If any team invading The Garden had motivation on its mind, it was the Flyers who have been more erratic than the Jersey Transit in a record-breaking blizzard. As […]
Winning the Second Cup with a Scottish-Born Rookie Goalie
If the Rangers first Stanley Cup triumph in 1928 was accomplished with a strange set of goaltending circumstances, the Blueshirts’ second championship five years later had a curious netminding twist as well. Actually, its roots date back to the 1927-28 season when Lorne Chabot was the Rangers original and dependable puck-stopper throughout the season, as […]