Unbelievable!
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I want to post my thoughts from the last thread again.
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Not kidding. Legitimately tearing up right now.
I watched my first hockey game 21 or so years ago. I became a full time Rangers fan 20 years ago at the start of the season and all the way through the playoffs. I watched them win the Cup and I'll always remember that.
It took 20 years to get back there, but the New York Rangers are heading to the Stanley Cup finals.
I've sat through a couple of good years after 94. I sat through the dark ages wondering if the team would ever even make the playoffs again. I saw through the lockout thinking the team was going to be horrendous and having them make me smile for the first time in a while when they made the playoffs after being predicted to finish dead last.
I sat through Dan Blackburn's injury -- legitimately tearing up when it came out that he was going to have to retire. He was our next superstar goaltender. But then I sat through Lundqvist's first game knowing he was going to be a superstar.
And today we are back to the Cup finals.
I want them to win it all, but I am not going to kill things if they don't. I just want them to play hard and have a good series.
This team deserves it. This team has earned it.