GDT: #28 - 12/02/18 | jets @ RANGERS | 6:00 - MSG

[Machinehead]

Girardi for no 5

 

[Leetch3]

Girardi? your joking right

No he was being serious

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

How about this?

No more number retirements until Hank. Thanks.

Nedved night.

 

[Irishguy42]

If you think about it, Jesper Fast already had his jersey retirement. Deservedly so.

 

[Machinehead]

I liked Petr Nedved

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Just completing the list. Remaning numbers.

Greschner for no 4
Girardi for no 5

6 for Jack Hughes

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

No he was being serious

Oh boy.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

6 for Jack Hughes

Wrong Hughes

 

[Machinehead]

Honestly, #5 should have been the first number up there.

 

[Fitzy]

Joking aside, I think Hank is the next retired number for NYR.

 

[Crease]

No announcement for Greschner or Park means Lundqvist is next, IMO.

 

[thethirdhockeyman91]

Joking aside, I think Hank is the next retired number for NYR.

you forgot Ryan Hollweg

 

[PlamsUnlimited]

No announcement for Greschner or Park means Lundqvist is next, IMO.

While playing still.

 

[Nopuckluck]

Lets win the game and for once not be pushed around like a bunch of pansies by these guys

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Lets win the game and for once not be pushed around like a bunch of pansies by these guys

Wrong team to hope for this against.

 

[Jaromir Jagr]

I understand not many around have a connection to the guy but this is still a prestigious Ranger getting his number retired. They still get 17,000+ there a night even at absurd ticket prices. I know there will be tourists and corporate folks that don't care to show up on time but we're still looking at the building being basically 25-50% full. It's just a really bad showing.

I get that, but honestly, you get what you ask for when you remove many 'real fans' and replace them with corporate hacks and tourists.

I would still have my Rangers tickets (even though I live in Europe) if they didn't raise prices so crazily. The first season my family had seasons was in 2003. I was in the lower rung and it cost around $20/$25 a ticket. The last season I had them was 2016. I had moved up to the last row in the stadium and my ticket price was over $100/ticket. The ticket price for the equivalent to my original seat was something like $280. From $20 to $250+ in 14 years.

Even when I went to the finals game in 2014 it was embarassing how bad that crowd was. It was just a bunch of corporate hacks and ogglers who got into hockey because the Rangers finally went back to the cup. There was no emotion, barely any cheering before the game, etc. I began to feel like the last real fan in that place.

Honestly, to me, it's one of the worst parts about being a Rangers fan. We have some of the most passionate fans in the world and a real wide fanbase, but the prices are so high, that atmosphere is non-existent in the stadium now. Hell, even when I went to Montreal for a game the ticket prices were insanely cheaper.

 

[Machinehead]

Wrong team to hope for this against.

Seriously lol

This is the dirtiest team in the league

Gonna be a fun read

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Seriously lol

This is the dirtiest team in the league

Gonna be a fun read

Still Washington.

But Peg is right there. I love watching them, I would kill for their roster.

 

[Good Intentions]

Girardi? your joking right

"You're" not "your"

and he added a laughing face to clear up any possibility that you would take it seriously.

 

[Machinehead]

Still Washington.

But Peg is right there. I love watching them, I would kill for their roster.

Yeah you're right. Wilson is the Gretzky of dirty. Beyond generational.

 

[Thirty One]

Frank Boucher should have his number retired. Unfortunately, he's very dead.

 

[Jaromir Jagr]

They should retire Jagr's just so no idiot wears it. I hate that Hoffman took it in Florida. He looks like an idiot.

 

[Machinehead]

Truth be told, I don't really believe in retiring numbers at all.

 

[Jaromir Jagr]

Yeah you're right. Wilson is the Gretzky of dirty. Beyond generational.

Wilson would be nothing in the 1980's

 

[Machinehead]

They should retire Jagr's just so no idiot wears it. I hate that Hoffman took it in Florida. He looks like an idiot.

Well, Hoffman is an idiot, so it's easy for him to look like one.