Tribute Marián Gáborik Memories

[RangersFan1994]

With him retiring today, let's talk about one of the best 2 way forwards in the game and one of the better Rangers signings in team history. What is your favorite memory of Gaborik?

Is he going to the hockey hall of fame? I say he gets in st some point.

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[TheBloodyNine]

My first real Gabby "WOW" moment was this goal (stick tap to the amazing @Loffen for the video):



What a shot. I remember being a little light headed after this goal because I jumped up too fast haha.

 

[Machinehead]

He started an elite hockey player and finished an elite "let's remember guys" player.

He played for Ottawa. That is a thing that happened.

 

[Machinehead]

My first real Gabby "WOW" moment was this goal (stick tap to the amazing @Loffen for the video):



What a shot. I remember being a little light headed after this goal because I jumped up too fast haha.

I was at this game

 

[NYR94]

You didn't say they had to be good memories so...

 

[RangersFan1994]

I was at this game

I was at this game too, section 219.

 

[Machinehead]

You didn't say they had to be good memories so...

I was watching something else when this happened. I think it was the Giants in some big game or something.

 

[WojtekWolski86]

You didn't say they had to be good memories so...

Look all those NHL execs standing a foot from gabby and letting him score #4.

 

[clmetsfan]

 

[KevinFinnerty]

Gaborik one of the better 2 way forwards? He was an elite goal scorer who had crazy speed crazy shot and great deflections, but was never a defensive player.

I loved his hat trick against Colorado

 

[rangers1314]

carrying that christmas tree on 24/7.

 

[TheDirtyH]

My favorite Ranger from the moment he signed. First jersey I bought. He was one of my favorite players in the league before he signed with the Rangers. That first game against Pittsburgh, I went and bought his jersey the next morning. What a great career.

 

[huerter]

There were those couple minutes when the initial reports were that he was signing for 5.75 per year. It was all downhill after that.

 

[will1066]

You didn't say they had to be good memories so...

Yup. First real memory of Gaborik right here

 

[FultonReed]

saw him in his preseason debut for NYR. he scored twice. that was really cool.

can't forgive him for 2014 though lol

 

[Atax]

I think my favorite moment was him buying a Christmas tree on the winter classic? special. Was hilarious seeing him carry the tree around the city. Was a nice humanizing moment.

 

[Zamboner]

After one disastrous free agent signing after another, Gaborik did something miraculous: He came to the Rangers, got paid and ... Played great. Couldn't' believe it. Two out of the three seasons with 40 goals, solid defensively, never annoyed me, an icon on HBO 24/7, loved the Marian Gaborik Experience.

Then Torts ran him out, like the destructive lowlife Torts was.

 

[Chaels Arms]

I seem to remember one of our posters made an incredible highlight reel vid of his goals on YouTube back on the day.

I've never seen another player so automatic on breakaways in my life. If he was coming in on the goalie alone you always expected him to score.

 

[Leonardo87]

I think my favorite moment was him buying a Christmas tree on the winter classic? special. Was hilarious seeing him carry the tree around the city. Was a nice humanizing moment.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

I loved Gaborik but I'd look back on him much more fondly if he wasn't on the Kings in 2014.

That game vs Boston, the one time the Nash-Richards-Gaborik line ever looked good, was so exciting and made me get so pumped at the possibility of that line being good going forward.

Gaborik kind of goes under the radar as a big time UFA signing that was a resounding success and worth every penny. He had two 40 goal seasons out of the 3 full ones he played here and for almost the whole time he was the entire offense basically, then we flipped him for a package that netted us our 2C for our contending window among other assets.

 

[RosensRug]

He blew the roof off Nassau Coliseum with that OT winner back in 2013.

 

[I Eat Crow]

Starts and ends with this....



One of the best releases I've ever seen.

 

[thethirdhockeyman91]

Didn't Gaborik score 40 goals one of those seasons with Erik Christensen as his center? that's insanely impressive.

 

[Peltz]

My first real Gabby "WOW" moment was this goal (stick tap to the amazing @Loffen for the video):



What a shot. I remember being a little light headed after this goal because I jumped up too fast haha.

I remember this moment extremely vividly.

 

[Fitzy]

One of those rare free agent signings where we got good value for the first few years and then traded him at the precisely correct moment when he started to decline.

Obviously he was still a pretty big factor when the Kings beat us in the cup finals but he was never quite the same again once he hit 30 years of age.