Mike Richter's save to close out Game 2 against Vancouver
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NYR94
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Richter doesn't have the deep playoff runs Hank had, but when he was good (91,94,97), he was really good. I think of the Big 3 during the 94 run, Richter probably doesn't get his fair share of the credit compared to Messier and Leetch.
HFsNumber1Heel
FKA Roo Returns...Still A Contrarian Apparently
Zubov is the one who gets no credit for anything.
Love 94 as much as the next guy, I even have a framed poster of it right above my home office, but another topic there is no need to revisit every year.
Let's make some new memories.
JT Kreider
FIRE GORDIE CLARK
I hate the "Sure Richter won a Cup and Hank didn't but Hank didn't have the benefit of being surrounded by Hall of Famers" argument, they clearly forgot about this save or the fact the Rangers were actually losing in Game 4 when Richter made the penalty shot save on Bure
Boris Zubov
No relation to Sergei, Joe
Or the 2nd period vs the Devils in Game 6 when it was only 2-0. The Rangers were dead in the water & Devils could've easily been up 5-0. Richter stopped odd man rush after odd man rush including a 2 on 0, I believe. Until Kovalev scored to make it 2-1, Richter was the only Ranger who showed up for the first 35 minutes of that game. There's not a Ranger fan alive who watched that game & didn't think to themself that the season was over. The only reason they stayed alive was Mike Richter.
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JT Kreider
FIRE GORDIE CLARK
100%, any documentary about 1994 whenever it gets to that game, goes out of its way to point out how the Rangers had nothing going for them in the first half of that game and if not for Richter the game would have been long out of reach before Messier, Kovalev and Leetch had the chance to take over.
If that save happened with Henrik Lundqvist all we'd hear about is Henrik saving a shitty team and carrying them on his back.
Boris Zubov
No relation to Sergei, Joe
I remember being at the game and watching this like it was yesterday. Except I've never been to Vancouver. Crazy the things we remember. I have an autographed photo of the save.
Synergy27
F-A-C-G-C-E
It’s funny that these clips show Brian Leetch making multiple ridiculously boneheaded plays to lead to these chances.
JT Kreider
FIRE GORDIE CLARK
How about this first he turns the puck over and then gets burned by Bure and taken for a ride around the entire defensive zone
Jesus dude, give it a break.
Why Henrik Lundqvist is the greatest Game 7 goaltender in history
Yeah, Lundqvist never came up big when it mattered!
Irishguy42
Mr. Preachy
Boris Zubov
No relation to Sergei, Joe
Sorry, I meant it was the only MSG home game I didn't go to. I was a broke college kid, so there was no way I could afford flying to Vancouver for the away games. I actually never visited that city until 2018.
I literally never said Lundqvist didn't come up big. But the narrative would have been that he's carrying a shitty team regardless of how good it was if he made the Richter save. While the Richter save is largely forgotten.
I knew what you meant. I really did think I was at that Vancouver game or more accurately, I thought it happened at the garden so I must have remembered being there when it happened.
Boris Zubov
No relation to Sergei, Joe
I knew what you meant. I really did think I was at that Vancouver game or more accurately, I thought it happened at the garden so I must have remembered being there when it happened.
They had watch parties at MSG for the games in Vancouver, so maybe you recall watching it at MSG?
Chalfdiggity3
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People forget about how good Richter was. Most of this board does not remember the four horseman. Our team played a full out offensive game with really no defensive structure and giving up consistent odd man rushes. He stood on his head and kept us in countless games with his unbelievable saves.
JT Kreider
FIRE GORDIE CLARK
Richter's legacy has been pretty much whitewashed in recent years because he always has to compare to Lundqvist (and that's a comparison he always loses) and any praise of Richter is seen as an insult against Hank for some weird reason.
Maybe it's just some weird default counter defense of the fact Lundqvist will retire cupless
Synergy27
F-A-C-G-C-E
I mean, Bure was basically impossible to defend at the time. But yeah, if you assume that this was probably the most that non-Ranger fans got to see him play, you can understand why they underrate his defensive skills.
JT Kreider
FIRE GORDIE CLARK
True. This is actually probably one of the most impressive one man shifts in NHL history because he also bodies Beukeboom in the corner who he is giving up some serious weight and height too and then beats Messier to the loose puck as well.
I don't care that Ovy is considered the better player, Bure was a lot more fun to watch.
Crease
Chief Justice of the HFNYR Court
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Richter is my favorite player, but I cannot be convinced he was better than Lundqvist, by any metric.
