Around the NHL: Part XX

[sabremike]

LOL. seriously?

I'd probably suggest Jeremy should try laying low instead of digging the hole he put himself into even deeper.

 

[Maximus]

wish I was old like you and got to experience that. sigh.... I started watching in 1997 and came of age in the dark ages.

Don't exactly feel as if I'm "old" thank you very much...lol.

I am old enough tho to have experienced alot of pain along the way as the early '80's losing to the Islanders in the playoffs every year they won the Cup was the absolute worst feeling as Ranger fan to this day I've ever felt.

But yes being around and 30 at the time and my daughter having been born during the Ranger/Devil series on May 17th and than seeing finally a Cup won, is to this day the best sports memory of my life.

Rangers winning the Cup in '94 even tops for me the Mets winning the WS in '86 tho it's pretty close but man that whole playoff run in '94 sweeping the hated Islanders, easily beating the Caps in 5 and than the epic 7 game ECF vs the Devils to where we all though we were going to beat the Canucks in 5 after being up 3-1 and them SOB's beating us the next two to force a game 7....it was nerve racking but yet so amazing at same time.

No worries tho my friend, I truly believe we are on the right track to another Cup or two. It might take another 5-6 years but I do believe we will be going to a parade or two sometime in the 2020's...no question in my mind.

 

[Bob Richards]

My body would actually shutdown if I ever saw this team win the big one.

 

[Leetch3]

 

[aufheben]

I'd probably suggest Jeremy should try laying low instead of digging the hole he put himself into even deeper.

Exactly.

What a goober.

 

[nyrage]

Don't exactly feel as if I'm "old" thank you very much...lol.

I am old enough tho to have experienced alot of pain along the way as the early '80's losing to the Islanders in the playoffs every year they won the Cup was the absolute worst feeling as Ranger fan to this day I've ever felt.

But yes being around and 30 at the time and my daughter having been born during the Ranger/Devil series on May 17th and than seeing finally a Cup won, is to this day the best sports memory of my life.

Rangers winning the Cup in '94 even tops for me the Mets winning the WS in '86 tho it's pretty close but man that whole playoff run in '94 sweeping the hated Islanders, easily beating the Caps in 5 and than the epic 7 game ECF vs the Devils to where we all though we were going to beat the Canucks in 5 after being up 3-1 and them SOB's beating us the next two to force a game 7....it was nerve racking but yet so amazing at same time.

No worries tho my friend, I truly believe we are on the right track to another Cup or two. It might take another 5-6 years but I do believe we will be going to a parade or two sometime in the 2020's...no question in my mind.

Watching the Mets win in 86 was amazing (especially the Mookie game), but nothing compares to watching the Rangers win in 94. I remember being interviewed live by CBS outside the Garden and the reporter asked, how does it feel to finally watch the Rangers win the Cup after all these years? I blurted out "F*** the Islanders"! All the random hugs and high-fives that night. We had free drinks all night long wherever we went. I stayed out all night and rolled straight into work at 8am drunk as hell. Just the greatest sports memory of all time.

 

[Maximus]

Yeah it's a nice gig playing alongside MacKinnon but Burakovsky has really come into his own this year as he's been a great pickup by Sakic.

With tonight's first goal tonight on the PP , the Bura is on pace for 26 goals and 62 points...not too shabby for a guy who never scored more than 17 goals or 38 points before in his career.

 

[NYSPORTS]

Watching the Mets win in 86 was amazing (especially the Mookie game), but nothing compares to watching the Rangers win in 94. I remember being interviewed live by CBS outside the Garden and the reporter asked, how does it feel to finally watch the Rangers win the Cup after all these years? I blurted out "F*** the Islanders"! All the random hugs and high-fives that night. We had free drinks all night long wherever we went. I stayed out all night and rolled straight into work at 8am drunk as hell. Just the greatest sports memory of all time.

best ever and thank goodness for that post late in Game 7. Hard to believe how hard that last game was and how amazingly they lost Game 1 of that series.

 

[Maximus]

Watching the Mets win in 86 was amazing (especially the Mookie game), but nothing compares to watching the Rangers win in 94. I remember being interviewed live by CBS outside the Garden and the reporter asked, how does it feel to finally watch the Rangers win the Cup after all these years? I blurted out "F*** the Islanders"! All the random hugs and high-fives that night. We had free drinks all night long wherever we went. I stayed out all night and rolled straight into work at 8am drunk as hell. Just the greatest sports memory of all time.

That's an awesome recollection of yours. Sounds kind of familiar to mine as my buds and myself didn't even go to sleep that night and I called in "sick" the next day tho my boss knew.

That same boss of mine at the time let us not have to come to work the day of the parade and it tho it was like 105 degrees that day, it was almost as much fun as watching them actually win the Cup to see the boys rolling down the Canyon of Hero's with a million or so of my fellow Ranger nuts celebrating.

Ahhhh yes...good times indeed. At least some of us old enough to be fans have had at least that one Cup some of our brothers in here have just a Cup final.

I'm jonesing bigtime for another one and it needs to happen this decade otherwise we might be stuck with having just that one!!

 

[Maximus]

best ever and thank goodness for that post late in Game 7. Hard to believe how hard that last game was and how amazingly they lost Game 1 of that series.

As much as I recall how happy and relieved we all felt, the thing that I still recall vividly about that whole playoff run from the Devil series till the Canuck series was that it was 14 games of the most stress, nerve racking hockey I've ever felt.

We were supposed to win the Cup that year which is what made those last 14 games so stressful for any Ranger fan at the time. All the playoff series since than including all the playoffs we've been in the past 12 years, sure they were stressful but they never compared to what we all were going thru back in '94 and like I said alot of it had to do with us being favorites and the weight of the 54 year old curse which compounded things!

 

[NYSPORTS]

As much as I recall how happy and relieved we all felt, the thing that I still recall vividly about that whole playoff run from the Devil series till the Canuck series was that it was 14 games of the most stress, nerve racking hockey I've ever felt.

We were supposed to win the Cup that year which is what made those last 14 games so stressful for any Ranger fan at the time. All the playoff series since than including all the playoffs we've been in the past 12 years, sure they were stressful but they never compared to what we all were going thru back in '94 and like I said alot of it had to do with us being favorites and the weight of the 54 year old curse which compounded things!

agree, that was win it or it was the end of the World.

I was actually worried on the Matteau goal that Tikanen was in the crease so hesitated.

 

[n8]

Doesn't seem like a big take for Toffoli but Kings fans should still be happy with that trade. Tyler Madden is probably the best piece they are getting back but that still his stats have to still translate into a pro game. Schaeller is whatever.

 

[nyrage]

best ever and thank goodness for that post late in Game 7. Hard to believe how hard that last game was and how amazingly they lost Game 1 of that series.

Game 1 was a heart-breaker. Losing a lead late in third. Leetch hits a crossbar in OT and Vancouver scores right afterwards.

I remember even going to the Garden to watch the away games on the big screen. Nothing was ever easy as a Rangers fan. We go up 3 games to 1 and Vancouver wins the next 2 and you're thinking: here we go again. Game 7 probably caused my first gray hair.

 

[nyrage]

That's an awesome recollection of yours. Sounds kind of familiar to mine as my buds and myself didn't even go to sleep that night and I called in "sick" the next day tho my boss knew.

That same boss of mine at the time let us not have to come to work the day of the parade and it tho it was like 105 degrees that day, it was almost as much fun as watching them actually win the Cup to see the boys rolling down the Canyon of Hero's with a million or so of my fellow Ranger nuts celebrating.

Ahhhh yes...good times indeed. At least some of us old enough to be fans have had at least that one Cup some of our brothers in here have just a Cup final.

I'm jonesing bigtime for another one and it needs to happen this decade otherwise we might be stuck with having just that one!!

Let's not forget the Knicks run either. 94 was crazy (OJ's run, too). I quit my job at Atlantic Records and was moving to Florida. It was kind of open-ended. I waited until the day after the parade. That was a surreal moment.

 

[nyrage]

agree, that was win it or it was the end of the World.

I was actually worried on the Matteau goal that Tikanen was in the crease so hesitated.

I don't know what was more tense: Game 6 against NJ. It was looking pretty bleak until the third period. Game 7 against NJ or game 7 against Vancouver.

 

[Maximus]

Let's not forget the Knicks run either. 94 was crazy (OJ's run, too). I quit my job at Atlantic Records and was moving to Florida. It was kind of open-ended. I waited until the day after the parade. That was a surreal moment.

Yeah your right...the Knicks were on that amazing run of theirs as well at same time. That was if you think about it about as good as it got for fans like us seeing both teams were really good and had John Starks not for some reason forget how to shoot the basketball with the Knicks up 3-2 over the Rockets, we might have had two MSG champs that year.

Speaking of surreal, me and my buds were playing poker watching the Knick Rocket game and than the TV goes split screen and shows OJ's bronco being chased by cops in LA. What a wild times that was in America at the time for sure!

 

[Maximus]

I don't know what was more tense: Game 6 against NJ. It was looking pretty bleak until the third period. Game 7 against NJ or game 7 against Vancouver.

They were all equally intense that's what made it as stressful a stretch of time that any Ranger than and to this day has ever experienced. It was brutal. Even the games we won in that stretch of 14 games were super stressed out. Just a crazy time to be a fan.

That said I wouldn't trade it in for anything and I can't wait to feel that kind of stress and intense nerve racking pressure filled games where we are all going nuts once again in the near future hopefully as this team gets better and better going forward to where they are Cup contenders again.

 

[NYR94]

Context for the Vancouver trade:

 

[RangersFan1994]

Rantanen crashed into the boards and could be hurt. Didn't look good at all.

 

[Maximus]

MacKinnon once again with a ridiculous snipe. Guy is so friggen good!

 

[Maximus]

Nichushkin ties it up 3-3 in what has been a hell of a game between the 'Lanche and Lightning.

Hope it goes to OT and we get to see MacKinnon, Makar, Kucherev, Stamkos and Point on the ice at same time....

 

[Avery16]

 

[egelband]

What precipitated that????

 

[Avery16]

What precipitated that????

 

[Maximus]

Kucherov showing some very sick speed as he picks MacKinnon's pocket and outraces MacK and scores game winner in OT.

Gotta be honest, never thought Kucherov wast that fast but he is....wow what a game in what could be a precursor for this year's Cup final.