Getting emotional, vulnerable, and existential, if I may.

[Peltz]

Yo guys.... I just want to put things in perspective. My wife is a BUFFALO SABRES fan.

In comparison to her hockey fandom experience, ours has been an embarrassment of riches over the past 15 years.

Every single NHL team goes through ups and downs. And every single one of them eventually misses the playoffs. It happens.

Since Henrik Lundqvist's rookie year, we have made the playoffs the vast majority of the seasons. The team sucks... but it's really okay.

Even under Drury, you never know what could happen next year.

 

[80s Kid]

41 here but I won't be thinking about NYR on my deathbed. Yes, I feel that I will never see them win another cup, and although I saw 94, I don't think I enjoyed it when it happened as much as I would enjoy it now.

I still have some video games to look forward to so that will help with no post season NYR hockey. I play hockey a couple times of week still, but I'm sure when that's eventually gone i'll be a little grumpy. I consider myself a big NYR fan, but I am not the type that lives, eats, and breathes NYR. I don't need my man cave and life built around NYR. I think I would consider myself a bigger hockey fan than just a NYR fan.

We're all getting older and it's a bit depressing when you think about how many years this organization wasted or how many years you view them as being far off from returning to actual threats. But in the end there's more important things in life... like great beer and bourbon...

41 here as well. Similar experience with the 94 team...I saw it but don't remember much and was too you to appreciate what happened.

If anything the Cup win resulted in me playing a lot of NHL 95 for Super Nintendo.

 

[Whoot Whoot]

43. Been a fan since the late 80s and regularly watch/obsessed since Leech/Granato hit the scene. My dad took me to a game and I caught a puck (back when they were plain black and white). I even met Guilani and Orangeface at a game. I Remembered every moment of Game 7 1994 (both NJD and VAN) During covid I watched a lot of chess, especially Fabi and Magnus which helps a bit but I am a die-hard NYR Fan and only NYR fan, through and through. Fortunately I have a great passion in life (not-hockey related) which I obsess slightly more over. Mozart and medication ballances things for me.

 

[Roo Returns]

mancini? victor mancini?

Yes, I genuinely liked him as a prospect and was super impressed with how he translated to the AHL last season, and to the NHL this season. He's ahead of schedule, is a great skater, actually likes to shoot, and will get stronger.

 

[Roo Returns]

I'm pretty sure the dude selling you tickets is not connected to the front office decisions and is likely some guy who barely even knows what's going on with the players.

Too bad. I didn't curse, I gave him an honest 45 seconds of why I don't go to more home games. If you're going to call me up during work hours in between my Zoom meetings from some unknown 212 number when I get a healthy amount of work-related calls from that area code you are fair game for dialogue.

Don't waste my time. And if that's "offensive" to anyone, too bad.

 

[Brief Candle]

Way too much of my physical, mental, and emotional health is reliant upon the performance of this team.

There are times where I feel amazing in life simply because the Rangers have been doing well. At the same time, there are times where my life is good, but I feel like shit because the Rangers suck.

I was raised a diehard fan, and I have issues with hyper-fixation in which I am super invested in one particular thing in my life and it consumes me. Most of the time, this fixation has been the Rangers.

Is anybody else here in their 30s and getting to the point where they think they may never (in a conscious capacity) witness a Stanley Cup?

Even worse, does anyone else here feel like they’ll be thinking about the Rangers never winning a Cup on their f***ing death bed?

I’m fully aware of the fact that sports isn’t everything, or even that important at all. But at the same time, it’s really hard to invest decades of yourself into an entity and receive nothing but pain in return.

If anyone can relate, I’d appreciate some input.

I'll never forget rolling up to 7-11 in 1994 and seeing an OLD man having his coffee outside wearing his Rangers cap. We had just gotten to the finals. I commented "Excellent hat, sir!" He looked at me and responded "I saw the Rangers win the cup in 1940. I just want to see them win it one more time before I f***ing die". I'll never forget that exchange.


I've barely watched this club in the last two years or so because I genuinely think some of the people involved are just garbage humans, and it makes it extremely hard to support a team where I'd like to see most people involved, from the owner down, gone. Hell, I watched the game with Sam and J.D the other day, and all it did was remind me how much different it was back then. The name on the front of the sweater was more important than the one across the back.