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I bet half the people here don't even remember the early Sam.
Sam Rosen To Retire After Next Season
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I bet half the people here don't even remember the early Sam.
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Probably but I won't hold their age against them if they don't hold mine against me lol
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Based on what I've been able to track down, Rangers are 4-7-4 ahead of tomorrow's ceremony game.
If anyone can think of other one-off pre-game ceremonies in Ranger history, let me know.
If anyone can think of other one-off pre-game ceremonies in Ranger history, let me know.
Mike in Houston
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Sam's 30th anniversary was on January 31, 2014. They beat the Islanders 4-1. I believe there was an on-ice ceremony for him.
Lester Patrick Night. December 3, 1947. Loss to Toronto
Lester Patrick Night December 3, 1947. Loss to Toronto 4-1
Closing of Madison Square Garden February 11, 1968 tied Detroit 3-3
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I can’t remember why Park never had his jersey retired. Anyone remember? Just bad blood between him and organization?
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Could be Sam's replacement.
Could be John Giannone.
Could be Joe Tolleson.
There are a few decent choices.
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Mandar
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Sam will always be the voice of the Rangers for me. Michelletti will always be the Sammy Hagar of this Van Halen.
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Either Sam Rosen asked for it not to be a huge thing or MSG botched it. Or... two things can be true.
I really would have liked to know who Sam's successor is going to be.
Mike in Houston
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Probably not the time or place for that.
I think it'll be one of two choices.
Kenny Albert provided he steps away from doing Knicks as one of Breen's back ups. No more of that. Alex Faust is the other choice. Kenny's main backup on radio. He surpassed La Greca on the depth chart this season and does TV too nationally. Former Kings TV announcer after Bob Miller.
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We need to hear more about this. I know MSG Network is out of money, but it felt very chintzy.
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Now is the time for Rangers to right their Brad Park wrong
The Rangers this week unfurled their centennial logo that will be featured during the franchise’s 2025-26 100th anniversary season, but the only banner at the Garden I’m interested in seeing would be Brad Park’s No. 2 hanging from the famous pinwheel ceiling.If there is ever a time to right the injustice that has perpetrated for decades, it is now. If there is ever a time to honor the second greatest defenseman in franchise history, it is now.
Park, who will turn 77 in July, has earned it. So has the generation of fans that grew up on Emile Francis’ beloved teams that, truth be told, kind of set the template for the half-century that has followed that group.
I don’t care if he played 36 games more wearing the hated spoked-B than he did wearing the Blueshirt, I don’t care if he played fewer than 500 games as a Ranger, neither does anyone who appreciates the tortured history of this Original Six franchise and neither does anyone else who sat the in the blue seats those days that both seem so long ago and like yesterday. We’re dwindling, if you haven’t noticed.
There were five pillars of that era and four of them have appropriately been honored. But if the Rangers are going to celebrate 100 years of history, if there is truly an intention to reward the paying customers who have bled blue, white and red through decades upon decades — and that, in addition to marketing revenue, is what this celebration is about — then Park’s No. 2 finally needs to accompany Ed Giacomin’s No. 1, Rod Gilbert’s No. 7, Vic Hadfield’s No. 11 and Jean Ratelle’s No. 19 at the top of the building.
Almost 100 years and coming up on 50 years since Park left the building, it is the right thing to do. No. 2 has earned it. Rangers fans deserve it. It is no more complicated than that.
