Book presentation: The New York Rangers Rink of Honor and the Rafters of Madison Square Garden

[Theokritos]

Author Sean McCaffrey is presenting his new publication on the History of Hockey subforum right now. He's providing information on the book and a reading extract and he's available to answer your questions.

Give it a look here: Book Feature - The New York Rangers Rink of Honor and the Rafters of Madison Square Garden (by Sean McCaffrey)

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[eco's bones]

It looks interesting. Not sure about your 93 though. I'll probably buy this though.

 

[Theokritos]

It looks interesting. Not sure about your 93 though. I'll probably buy this though.

Well, I'm not the author, just the messenger. But you can tell it to the author himself in the discussion thread linked above!

 

[cwede]

FYI

my subjective reaction to this list

personally i find this list over the top subjective, even arbitrary
as it includes Ogrodnick but not Sandstrom(def fan favorite, more NYR games, higher NYR goals/game, NYR pts/game, better all around game, with physical and attitude edge)
Rogers but not Poddubny, (extremely comparable as imported 2-time scoring leaders in only NYR seasons)
and an assortment of guys who played less and/or contributed less than Reijo Ruotsalainen,
such as Fast, Hagelin, Healy, Kisio, Kocur, Dom Moore, Nedved, even St Louis

 

[Ranger Ric]

For announcers where are Sam Rosen, Howie Rose and the guy I grew up with, Win Elliot?

FYI
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my subjective reaction to this list

 

[cwede]

For announcers where are Sam Rosen, Howie Rose and the guy I grew up with, Win Elliot?

Poor Win, wasn't he one of guys who had to make up play by play commentary from reading teletype feeds?

 

[LokiDog]

Am I missing something? No Leetch, Mess, Graves, Richter? Carl Hagelin and Jesper Fast? No Giacomin? Sean Avery and Alain Vigneault? Just seems like a very arbitrary list. I'm guessing the big names are missing because they're already in the rafters? But still, Hagelin? Why not Dubinsky then? Avery and Fast rather than a guy like Sandstrom?

 

[Theokritos]

I'm guessing the big names are missing because they're already in the rafters?

Looks like you're right with that guess.

But still, Hagelin? Why not Dubinsky then? Avery and Fast rather than a guy like Sandstrom?

Good questions. If you post them in the thread, the author might even give you his reasoning.