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Has there been any mention of Mike Allison ? Drafted 35th overall in 1980 by us. Kicked around for 500 NHL games playing also with Leafs and Kings .
 
Jocelyn Guevermont , Curt Ridley couple of Canucks . JG finished with us and Ridley started with us[2 games] . . Both guys are in a 70's NHL group I moderate in and frequent contributors . Ridley is a very talkative guy .
 
Dwight Helminen.

A day or two after we traded for Bure, my brother and I got to be "GM for a day" from a Casino Night auction. I remember talking to Sather and he asked how I liked the Bure trade. I don't remember what I said about that, but I remember saying I wish we could get Malhotra back, and saying that I liked the signing of Helminen because he played with Lundmark in Seattle (back then I had been listening to radio feeds of Seattle playoff games). Sather was surprised that I knew that.
 
maybe he is mentioned above, but gotta call out John Mitchell
was watching youtube videos for work, wanted a break, so looked for Richards late game-tier vs Caps in MSG PO game

many will recall Mitchell won the FO in OT back to Staal for the win
(on the back half of the late double minor on Ward)**
i looked it up, it was Mitchell's only career NHL Playoff point, in his only career NHL Playoff season

what I also recall about him was IIRC he was called up simultaneously with Hagelin,
they'd had chemistry in Hartford, and i believe he was out there for a bunch of Hags' first NHL points

i remembered he'd had a high scoring game vs NYR while a Leaf, tracked down this:
he helped Leafs beat NYR twice, in Toronto, when NYR had held 2-0 leads
getting the 2-1 goal, and 3 points in last 10 minutes, vs Valliquette,
New York Rangers at Toronto Maple Leafs Box Score — November 1, 2008 | Hockey-Reference.com
and the 2-1 goal vs Hank, in an eventual 2-3 OT loss
New York Rangers at Toronto Maple Leafs Box Score — March 27, 2010 | Hockey-Reference.com

** (ugh Ward got back at us, in'15, with that very late winner in waning seconds of regulation of MSG PO game)
 
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How about some USA gold medalists

Mark Pavelich the original smurf
Robbie McClanahan
Dave Silk
 
leetch99 said:
Has there been any mention of Mike Allison ? Drafted 35th overall in 1980 by us. Kicked around for 500 NHL games playing also with Leafs and Kings .
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He was on the Rangers a pretty long time. Was actually part of the two teams in the 80s that went deep (1981 and 1986).

Slightly before my time but he had a really nice start to his career, then hurt his knee, and became more of a checker who was always in and out of the lineup.

I remember him on the Kings. He was like maybe in the 28-30 age range, but looked like he was 45. 80s hockey players all looked about 5-10 years older than they actually were. Except Gretzky lol.

Esposito in probably his best move, traded him for Walt Poddubny who went on to have two excellent seasons with the Rangers.

Side note: I think anyone traded during Esposito's years here it shouldn't be "oh the Rangers gave up on him..typical stereotypical Rangers" it was just the guy was a maniac as GM. He made a trade every week. Literally. He was once quoted as saying he had no time for youth, he had to win now, and also if he can get a guy who could score 26 goals for a guy who could score 25 goals, he'd rather have more goals.

We're lucky HF or the internet wasn't around for his three years here. Imagine all the heat Benning and Bergevin have gotten in Van and MTL the last few years, and raise it a few exponents.
 
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bobbop said:
When I was a kid and the teams only dressed 16 skaters, Val Fontaine and Ken Schinkel were the Rangers spare forwards and prime penalty killers.
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I have a question for you because you might be old enough to remember. About 25 years ago, I bought a DOS computer hockey simulation game which had multiple seasons with it. One of the seasons was 1957-58, which my dad used to play with me. He loved it, because the Rangers happened to be half decent that season, and the simulation had them finish 2nd as in real life, but they trounced the Bruins in the first round, and then lost to Montreal in 6.

However, there was one Ranger on that team that he could not remember - Hank Ciesla. He remembered everyone on that team in vivid detail, except for Ciesla.
 
Walt Podubny was thought of as a journeyman but his two best seasons came as a New York Ranger, 86-87 with 87 points, 87-88 with 88 points. Won the Frank Boucher trophy both years. He actually came over for Mike Allison, who I do remember too, though I don't actually recall the trade itself so much. I always thought of him as the consummate team guy with a good skill set.
There is a good story by Alan Maki (one of my favourite sports writers for the way he captures the humanity angle) if anybody wanted to read it at A man who lived for the game that left him behind.

PS - my apologies if he was already mentioned in this great thread and I missed it.
 
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