Obscure goals or games that you remember from long ago

[McRanger]

Rangers at Canucks, Oct. 97. It was the first time the Rangers faced Messier since he signed with Vancouver that summer. He scored a goal but Gretzky one-upped him with the hat trick and the Rangers won 6-3.

I remember that game clearly too. That was the last time I had hope for the team until after the '04 lockout. First win of the season after 4 straight ties.

Quickly went downhill after that.

Also clearly remember the win over Colorado a Sunday in November. Tim Sweeney scores 2 goals and Roy pulls a spinorama on Gretzky at center ice and gets a penalty.

 

[OverTheCap]

I remember that game clearly too. That was the last time I had hope for the team until after the '04 lockout. First win of the season after 4 straight ties.

Quickly went downhill after that.

Also clearly remember the win over Colorado a Sunday in November. Tim Sweeney scores 2 goals and Roy pulls a spinorama on Gretzky at center ice and gets a penalty.

Yes, that was the last glimmer of hope. I really thought the Rangers were going to be decent that year. At least Gretzky, LaFontaine, and Leetch were fun to watch.

I remember the Colorado game as well - I thought Roy had gone nuts.

 

[Megustaelhockey]

A girl I dated in college had family in Pittsburgh. We visited them a couple of times and on one of those visits I distinctly remember watching this gem in their basement.

Penguins 10, Rangers 4 - 04-09-93

http://blogs.post-gazette.com/sport...pty-netters/37593-twenty-years-later-04-09-13

I was at that game... I thought the Rangers were never going to win another game.

I was so disgusted that I swore the reason they lost was because I was wearing Rangers stuff to the game. I haven't worn a single piece of NYR garb at a game since.

 

[Jersey Girl]

Not really obscure, but I was little and I'll never forget the first game of the 1990 playoffs vs. the Islanders. The crowd was insane a half hour before the players even came out for warmups.

Bernie Nicholls scores the first goal and I could not believe how much louder the already loud building became. Richter stops Randy Wood on a penalty shot. Then James Patrick almost kills Fat Lafontaine with a shoulder check to the head, and of course the face off at the end of the game when Vukota and Baumgartner are chasing Rangers down the ice because Roger Neilson did not send his players to the faceoff.

So much emotion! It was one of my first games ever (the first one I remember specifics of) and I thought all games were like that!

 

[OverTheCap]

I also randomly remember a late regular season game against the Isles in April 1994, I think Healy was playing.

It was a Sunday afternoon and I had just gotten back from little league. My dad couldn't stop cursing at the TV and the Rangers ended up losing. The Islanders had the Rangers number that year until the playoffs.

 

[patnyrnyg]

President's Day, 1994. Rangers were down 3-1 to the Penguins. Came back to tie and force OT. Opening face-off of OT, puck wound up in the pittsburgh zone near the boards at about the hashmarks. Amonte flew down the wing, got to the puck and threw a backhand at the net that went in. Rangers won 8 seconds into OT.

Early in the 89-90 season. Playing a friday-saturday home and home with the Isles. Friday was at MSG and Isles were up 5-2 after 2. Rangers scored 3 in the third to tie. Went into the Coliseum the next night and smoked 'em.

 

[Tawnos]

President's Day, 1994. Rangers were down 3-1 to the Penguins. Came back to tie and force OT. Opening face-off of OT, puck wound up in the pittsburgh zone near the boards at about the hashmarks. Amonte flew down the wing, got to the puck and threw a backhand at the net that went in. Rangers won 8 seconds into OT.

I was at that game! That was before they started using Presidents Day as the annual "crappy Western opponent" game they'd still sell a lot of tickets to because lots of parents took their kids.

 

[True Blue]

Where does one even start for this? Guess you need to go back in time....

For starters, I remember when Pierre Larouche ruled the ice. One season, he started hurt. There was a game against Quebec that he finally came back The long awaited debut. He hit the cross-bar on a break away at last second of game to loose.

I also recall George McPhee giving Scott Stevens a beating. And off courses, Rick Tochet.

 

[Killem Dafoe]

I still remember a Kevin Stevens hatty in a 10-2 win over Tampa.

 

[E-Train]

President's Day, 1994. Rangers were down 3-1 to the Penguins. Came back to tie and force OT. Opening face-off of OT, puck wound up in the pittsburgh zone near the boards at about the hashmarks. Amonte flew down the wing, got to the puck and threw a backhand at the net that went in. Rangers won 8 seconds into OT.

Early in the 89-90 season. Playing a friday-saturday home and home with the Isles. Friday was at MSG and Isles were up 5-2 after 2. Rangers scored 3 in the third to tie. Went into the Coliseum the next night and smoked 'em.

That next night at the Coliseum was the last win there until March of '94. Another memorable one on the Zubov 3rd period winner. That Oct. '89 game was a fight fest. Fun team that year.

 

[Savant]

In, I think 2009, I was at a Rangers vs Kings game where the Kings started a goalie named Erik Ersberg. The Rangers lit him up including Marian Gaborik who had one of the nicest snipes I had every seen. My friend and I had a perfect sight line on that shot and we were talking about how Gabby took Ersberg's soul on that shot. After that game Ersberg was sent down and I believe Jon Quick was called up if I remember correctly.

 

[Bleed Ranger Blue]

Ill never forget the Pittsburgh goal that went off of Ulf Samuelsson's face and basically ended the 1996 playoffs for the Rangers.

 

[JanErixon20]

Game in the 91/92 season against the Caps and the Rangers were down 6-1/2 and came back to win 8-6.

That was a great game. They were on the road. Nemchinov iced it with the empty netter. John Ogrodnick scored a goal with like 1 second left in the 2nd that really gave them a chance in the third.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

In, I think 2009, I was at a Rangers vs Kings game where the Kings started a goalie named Erik Ersberg. The Rangers lit him up including Marian Gaborik who had one of the nicest snipes I had every seen. My friend and I had a perfect sight line on that shot and we were talking about how Gabby took Ersberg's soul on that shot. After that game Ersberg was sent down and I believe Jon Quick was called up if I remember correctly.

Yeah, Joe couldn't stop talking about that goal and Gabby's "quick release".

 

[JanErixon20]

Where does one even start for this? Guess you need to go back in time....

For starters, I remember when Pierre Larouche ruled the ice. One season, he started hurt. There was a game against Quebec that he finally came back The long awaited debut. He hit the cross-bar on a break away at last second of game to loose.

I also recall George McPhee giving Scott Stevens a beating. And off courses, Rick Tochet.

I remember watching this on ch 9. I can still hear Sam Rosen, "Here comes Larouche, Larouche on a break....! HIT THE POST!"

Good thread here.

One of my favorites was Bob Brooke's OT winner versus the Caps in game 4 in '86.

 

[RangerBoy]

December 26,1991. The Rangers couldn't beat the Capitals. They lost the Caps in the playoffs in 1990 and 1991.

For almost 20 minutes Thursday night at Landover, Md., the New York Rangers could do nothing right. They trailed the Washington Capitals, 6-1, and appeared in for a beating.

But in one of the biggest games of the first half of the NHL season, the Rangers did a remarkable turnabout.

Mike Gartner's goal with less than eight minutes remaining capped a comeback and helped the Rangers to an 8-6 victory. It was their seventh victory in a row and put them in a tie with the Capitals for first place in the Patrick Division.

Michal Pivonka led the assault on the Rangers' No. 1 goalie, Mike Richter, getting his first hat trick in a little more than five minutes.

But from the time John Vanbiesbrouck replaced Richter, the Rangers dominated. In the last 40 minutes, Vanbiesbrouck faced only seven shots.

A goal by John Ogrodnick that barely beat the light signaling the end of the first period cut the deficit to 6-2. But even though the Rangers outshot the Capitals, 18-4, in the second period, New York trailed, 6-3, going into the final 20 minutes.

Don Turcotte had a goal and an assist early in the third period, and the Rangers were back in the game. Paul Broten's goal cut the lead to 6-5, and Kris King tied the score a minute past the middle of the period.

Gartner's shot from the slot for his 21st goal put New York ahead, and Segei Nemchinov completed the scoring into an empty net with 36 seconds left.

"I never saw a comeback like this," Ranger Coach Roger Neilson said. "Everything went wrong in the first period. Coming back from a 6-1 deficit is some feat in this league."

Washington Coach Terry Murray seemed stunned.

"It just kept snowballing," he said. "It got worse and it got worse. Giveaway after giveaway."

http://articles.latimes.com/1991-12-27/sports/sp-841_1_rally-past-capitals

 

[RangerBoy]

Joey Kocur shot one through the net one game.

Im pretty sure it was reviewed, and it counted.

I was at that game. It was against Pittsburgh. The fall of 1991.

 

[RangerBoy]

Esa Tikanen game winner against the Panthers in '97 when everyone thought it hit the crossbar.

I was at that game. My seats were in 402. There was a luxury box to our right with a TV. You could clearly see it was a goal. The puck hit the camera in the net.

 

[RangerBoy]

Where does one even start for this? Guess you need to go back in time....

For starters, I remember when Pierre Larouche ruled the ice. One season, he started hurt. There was a game against Quebec that he finally came back The long awaited debut. He hit the cross-bar on a break away at last second of game to loose.

I also recall George McPhee giving Scott Stevens a beating. And off courses, Rick Tochet.

McPhee beat the **** out Tocchet in game 3 of the 1986 playoffs. The Rangers won game 3. It was a Saturday night. Went to that game because there was no school the next day. Lost game 4 at home. Won game 5 in Philly. Last year of the first road being best of 3.

 

[True Blue]

McPhee beat the **** out Tocchet in game 3 of the 1986 playoffs.

Do not want to make this a fighting highlight, but I recall one year when they were getting pushed. Again. Anyway, that led to the trade for Nilan. But I also seem to recall that they traded for someone by the name of Joe Patterson as well. The first game after those trades, was night and day. They went from being intimidated to being the intimidators. Nilan was one of those rare breed of players. All the toughness of being a top rate enforcer, and the ability to go out and skate a regular shift. And man, was he mean.

 

[RangerBoy]

Leetch had a beautiful end to end rush against Philly where he came out right in front of Richter. I wanna say '92-'93 season but coulda been mid 90's.

1991-92. Leetch was terrific that year. His first Norris. Messier and Amonte hooked up on a nice OT goal against Philly that year.

Late in the third period and into overtime, the Flyers challenged Rangers goalie John Vanbiesbrouck. But the veteran, starting his 11th consecutive game, was solid. Vanbiesbrouck stopped Rod Brind'Amour twice in overtime.

The game-winning goal developed out of a broken play at the Philadelphia blue line. Adam Graves bumped Flyers defenseman Terry Carkner off the puck and Mark Messier, skating by along the boards, sped into the Flyers zone with it.

The Rangers' captain controlled the puck behind the net, then fed Amonte in front.

"Mark deked out all three guys, the two defensemen and the goalie, and I luckily got a shot," Amonte said after scoring his 25th and 26th goals. "I banked it off (Roussel's) arm pad."

Messier is having the kind of season even the opposition has to acknowledge.

"He's a horse," Flyers coach Bill Dineen said of Messier. "You need somebody on him all the time. I didn't think he'd have that much left at that stage of the game. They were almost double-shifting him at the end.

"The last time we were here, we were down, 4-1, at the end of the second period. We came back to 4-3 early in the third and the same guy blows down the right side and beats us."

http://articles.philly.com/1992-02-...ne-flyers-debut-flyers-goalie-dominic-roussel

 

[True Blue]

Messier and Amonte hooked up on a nice OT goal against Philly that year.

The Amonte trade still irks me to this day. I know who it netted and the contributions of whom it did, but Amonte would have looked great in NYR for all those years.

Other games to remember......I cannot recall the exact one, but I remember Maryo getting so fed up with Erixon, that in the postgame, he compared him to a bad smell that you could not get rid of.

 

[alkurtz]

OK guys, going to drop a real oldie on you.

Sunday, Oct. 23, 1967 at the old MSG. Rangers vs. Toronto and I'm sitting in the end balcony in a seat that I purchased with a school discount ("G.O.") for a think 75 cents.

Rangers had played in Toronto the night before (lots of home and home in those days) and had tied 4-4. Ranger goalie situation was unsettled with two young goalies, Eddie Giacomin and Caesar Maniago battling for the job. Maniago had started on Saturday but had asked out of the game in the 2nd period because of injury. Coach/GM Emile Francis was not happy as he didn't think the injury was all the serious.

Giacomin got the start on Sunday. Third period, score 0-0. Red Berenson, one of the Rangers extra forwards (teams only dressed 11 forwards and 5 D in those days and yes the same guy who is the college coach) cleanly wins the faceoff and gets it back to Dman Wayne Hillman who blasts the puck beyond Leaf HOF goalie Johnny Bower. Rangers win 1-0.

First shutout of Giacomin's career and the launching point for this career. From that point on, the #1 job is his. Rangers get hot and go on to make the playoffs for the first time since 61-62.

Can still see the puck hitting the twine.

 

[ThisYearsModel]

Early 80's. St. Patrick's Day. Flyers at Rangers. Rangers win 7-3. Ruotsalainen scores and gets in a fight. Half the benches left with players by the end of the game.

 

[The Lunatic Fridge]

Not exactly obscure but how about downright creepy? The exact two rangers against the same team, different games, almost the same identical goal just swapping the goal scorer (dubi and cally)

The second vid is also the night staal tied the game with less than 2mins to go while shorthanded. The refs were throwing everything at the rangers that night. Including global warming.