Ranger History Thread

[Mandar]

Since we seem to have quite a few days between games (I know there's one tonight), I thought it might be fun to start a Ranger History thread. Maybe bring up some old Ranger memories.....first game you went to....what happened on this date in Ranger history.....stuff like that.

I'll start....

49 years ago today, the Rangers made the most emotional trade in their history (not the worst, that was Hodge for Middleton)....dealing away Jean Ratelle (my favorite Ranger), Brad Park (my dad's favorite Ranger), and the infamous Joe Zanussi......for the hated Phil Esposito and Carol Vadnais. Its 49 years later, but I still remember crying about that deal.....we all hated the Bruins at that time (much like we hate the Devils today)...and no Ranger fan liked or wanted Espo. I still havent gotten over being angry at Emile Francis for doing this deal, lol.

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[bernmeister]

Since we seem to have quite a few days between games (I know there's one tonight), I thought it might be fun to start a Ranger History thread. Maybe bring up some old Ranger memories.....first game you went to....what happened on this date in Ranger history.....stuff like that.

I'll start....

49 years ago today, the Rangers made the most emotional trade in their history (not the worst, that was Hodge for Middleton)....dealing away Jean Ratelle (my favorite Ranger), Brad Park (my dad's favorite Ranger), and the infamous Joe Zanussi......for the hated Phil Esposito and Carol Vadnais. Its 49 years later, but I still remember crying about that deal.....we all hated the Bruins at that time (much like we hate the Devils today)...and no Ranger fan liked or wanted Espo. I still havent gotten over being angry at Emile Francis for doing this deal, lol.

I'm famously on record cursing Cat F for this.
Rod Gilbert had coffee w/me coupla times, bless him, and told me Francis did that "just to show he could"

Again, eff you EF, eff you.