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True Blue said:
I recall Hardy being an ok third pairing d-man

Joe Patterson. Was acquired a bit before Nilan was as the Rangers were getting physically manhandled that year. Patterson was just a pugilist, but Nilan was actually a good player. And as mean as anyone.
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I recall Nilan but not Patterson. Nilan was a great checker.
 
Edge said:
Wayne Presley made sure to stop by on his way our of the league.
Ditto for Mark Osborne and Troy Loney.
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Osborne was very good for NYR as a young guy, his return at ~33 not memorable

Presley was one of so many prior 30-goal wingers to pass thru MSG without leaving a mark - Blaine Stoughton, Bill Goldsworthy, Brian MacLellan, ...
 
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will1066 said:
Speaking of great chemistry, the Czechmates Petr Nedved, Jan Hlavac, and Radek Dvorak

David Oliver. Yes, current assistant coach Oliver. He played one year for the Rangers, I think.
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Rangers also had a second David Oliver play in the AHL for them . He was known for his knuckles more so than his offensive ability . Great thread...I have been busy the last few weeks....missed some good stuff and I still have 7 pages to sift through in this thread LOL before Hab game is on . Some great and some not so great memories in this one . Has anybody mentioned Mark Jannsens ? He could duke it out and made for some excitement along with Mallette .
 
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will1066 said:
Let's remember Darren Langdon
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Hard to forget him...had the pleasure of watching him play his Junior A hockey here in his last season before he went the hard route of the EHL? and then AHL and then NHL...he never backed down from NOBODY ! Might not have won them all but he was game.
 
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NCRanger said:
And Wilson finished that season on like a 110 point pace (55 points in 41 games).

Then Neil Smith takes over, Wilson gets injured, then gets traded back to Hartford for JODY HULL!
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Wilson for some crazy reason caught lightning in a bottle as soon as we traded for him, but never showed anything like that in his career before or after that second half of 88-89.

I was actually at his first game as a Ranger the day after Christmas in 1988. It was an afternoon game & I don't think the news of the trade was announced before I got on the LIRR. Found out at the game Maloney was shipped out along with Norm MacIver (another name from the past) who I actually thought was a decent prospect. Then again, I was a High School senior so what did I know.

Wilson had a couple of assists, but the crowd was really apesh!t for Rudy Poeschek fighting in the first period. I sat in the blues right in front of Ranger superfan "Fuzzy". For some reason I will never forget it because Fuzzy seemed to have a personal vendetta against linseman Pat Dapuzzo. The Rangers beat the Devils that day pretty soundly, but he just kept screaming at Dapuzzo the entire game, almost like the score didn't matter. I digress...
 
@Edge Osbourne was a Ranger twice. I think he was in the the big Duguay trade and they got him from Detroit, and then years later he came back as a UFA for 1994-95.

Loney was a goon. I remember him on Anaheim. They got him off waivers for the stretch run and as a 4th liner for 1994-95 as well.

Jason Ward was really good for the 2005-06 team. He was a high pick who couldn't hack it in the old NHL, but was a good energy/role player in the new NHL for a few years. Management sold him (as part of the Avery trade) at the right time. Same with Carey Wilson years earlier. He was never really the same after that injury in 1989-90.
 
Players I've seen live relevant to this thread:

-John Tripp: scoring machine for Hartford during the dark ages and had a cup of coffee. Became a very successful player in Germany. He was a AAAA power forward who had a neck fusion and couldn't turn his head sideways.

-Joel Bouchard: won a Cup with Dallas and played some decent hockey with the Rangers a few seasons prior to the lockout.

-Jason Krog: I was at that game in Philly (Dan Girardi's debut) when he scored the GWG

-Ilka Heikkenen-Finnish DMan who Torts gave a cup of coffee to after the infamous Redden and Kotalik scratching

-Matt Zaba-Went to the Italian league


2012-13 "depth issues":
-Ben Ferriero: had a decent run with the Sharks. Played a few games with the Rangers and then was sent to the minors never to be heard from again.
-Kris Newbury: AHL All Star
-Darrol Powe: had a good career as a Flyer but was done by the time he made it here. He looked like a state trooper or the T100 from Terminator.
 
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White Plains Batman said:
@Edge Osbourne was a Ranger twice. I think he was in the the big Duguay trade and they got him from Detroit, and then years later he came back as a UFA for 1994-95.

Loney was a goon. I remember him on Anaheim. They got him off waivers for the stretch run and as a 4th liner for 1994-95 as well.

Jason Ward was really good for the 2005-06 team. He was a high pick who couldn't hack it in the old NHL, but was a good energy/role player in the new NHL for a few years. Management sold him (as part of the Avery trade) at the right time. Same with Carey Wilson years earlier. He was never really the same after that injury in 1989-90.
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I remember Osbourne's first go around as a young kid. I did a double take when I saw he played 37 games for the team in 94-95. He was that invisible.

Loney was another one who I stopped and said, "Oh yeah, I guess he did play for the team."
 
Edge said:
I remember Osbourne's first go around as a young kid. I did a double take when I saw he played 37 games for the team in 94-95. He was that invisible.

Loney was another one who I stopped and said, "Oh yeah, I guess he did play for the team."
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Regarding Loney, I think in the first game he played for the Rangers, he was on a line with Nemchinov and Kovalev. The game was tied, and Sarge got thrown out on the face off, and due to a miscommunication, Loney took the draw and proceed to lose it, resulting in a go ahead goal. That is about the only thing I can remember about Loney’s time as a Ranger.
 
Boris Zubov said:
Lawton was another Esposito busted trade that turned into a 2nd trade... We gave up Mark Tinordi for him & then shipped him to Hartford a few months later with Don Maloney for Carey Wilson.
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More wastes of space. Lawton was as big a bust as it gets in the NHL. Not quite as big as Daigle, but close. Attitued aside, those two were the Jamarcus Russel & Ryan Leaf of the NHL.

Tinordi represented another good player that went on to have a solid career in Dallas. Yet another Rangers prospect who went on to better things elsewhere.
 
SingnBluesOnBroadway said:
Nordiques?
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Double checked. It was the Senators.... in their inaugural season where they were downright awful (10-70-4; 24 points). 63 points in 80 games as a D isn't half bad, even for that era. Next best was Jamie Baker, a center, with 48. Maciver only put up 23 the next year, but had a 53 point year split between the Penguins and Jets a few years later.
 
Tawnos said:
Double checked. It was the Senators.... in their inaugural season where they were downright awful (10-70-4; 24 points). 63 points in 80 games as a D isn't half bad, even for that era. Next best was Jamie Baker, a center, with 48. Maciver only put up 23 the next year, but had a 53 point year split between the Penguins and Jets a few years later.
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Wow—I never would have thought that he would have still been in the league when the Suns came in.
 
will1066 said:
I recall Nilan but not Patterson. Nilan was a great checker.
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Only thing I remember about Joe Patterson is that he somehow scored a goal against Vancouver in January of the 1987-88 season on a Friday night out there. How do I remember this? I had a US History Achievement test the next day (You could take an SAT like test in certain subjects that was supposed to help with college admissions -- somehow I thought it was just a College Boards cash grab, but whatever), and my mom could hear my TV -- so I was listening on my Walkman or whatever the thing was back then. I didn't really care because I could ace a US History exam on 2 hours sleep anyway...still can.

But yeah, Patterson scored in the game, and the last place Rangers started their run toward the playoffs that night.
 
White Plains Batman said:
Players I've seen live relevant to this thread:

-John Tripp: scoring machine for Hartford during the dark ages and had a cup of coffee. Became a very successful player in Germany. He was a AAAA power forward who had a neck fusion and couldn't turn his head sideways.

-Joel Bouchard: won a Cup with Dallas and played some decent hockey with the Rangers a few seasons prior to the lockout.

-Jason Krog: I was at that game in Philly (Dan Girardi's debut) when he scored the GWG

-Ilka Heikkenen-Finnish DMan who Torts gave a cup of coffee to after the infamous Redden and Kotalik scratching

-Matt Zaba-Went to the Italian league


2012-13 "depth issues":
-Ben Ferriero: had a decent run with the Sharks. Played a few games with the Rangers and then was sent to the minors never to be heard from again.
-Kris Newbury: AHL All Star
-Darrol Powe: had a good career as a Flyer but was done by the time he made it here. He looked like a state trooper or the T100 from Terminator.
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Heikkinen is totally relevant! I just noted in the Prospect Thread how he was T-18th in scoring in Liiga right now, and one of the guys he's tied with is Immonen. Zaborsky is 7th and Stromwall is 1st.
 
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