Tribute This One Will Last A Lifetime -30 YEARS AGO TONIGHT

[RangersFan1994]

Let's talk about the memories of what happened 30 years ago tonight.

What was your favorite memories of the Rangers winning the Stanley Cup in your lifetime?

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[Clark Kellogg]

The Sam Rosen Curse.

 

[bobbop]

I spent the day in a meeting in Hershey PA. Stopped at my house and grabbed what I thought was my Rangers nylon jacket. Turns out I grabbed my sons’ Cub jacket. Karma?

The rest of the day went smoothly. Train was on time, Don Pepi’s was busy and the game was the best non family moment of my life. I became a Ranger fan when I was 7 years old. It was a long wait but worth it.

After the game I bought a tee shirt, sat back down in the stands and had a good cry. The next day I went to my father’s grave to tell him everything that happened.

A uniquely personal experience.

 

[Boris Zubov]

I remember this day like it happened yesterday. It was a sweltering 97˚ in the city that day & everyone was just tense as hell. The game was magical for 2 periods & absolutely terrifying in the 3rd. Once it ended, it was an absolute whirlwind of hugs & high fives. When the crowd erupted into a "1940" chant, you could really feel the elation of the moment.

I was able to attend the post game parties in the Garden events spaces, the Play by Play was open to certain fans & the Club restaurant that was for the team only. I left the Garden at about 1am & stayed out in the city partying with people I met at the game...when I got off the LIRR in Queens at 7AM, people waiting on the other side of the track going to work looked at me very strangely. At the time I still lived at home with my mother who had to unlock to door to let me in the house...she looked at me & smiled, but never gave me shit for staying out all night without calling.

I had to be back in the city at 930 for work on the 15th & I had a ton of friends calling me. They knew I was at the game, but couldn't understand why I didn't sound more fired up about the victory. Only when I explained to the I was working on about 45 minutes of sleep did they start laughing their asses off at my drunk ass.

I have a love hate/relationship with this day. I loved every minute of it, but I hate that we still have to relive it 30 years later because this organization is so inept.

 

[mrmovies779]

I'm so tired of reading/hearing about 94.I want this damn team to make a new memory already

 

[SeanAveryTheGreatOne]

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I hate that we still have to relive it 30 years later because this organization is so inept.

Agreed. I am an old man with kids of my own, and I wasn't even alive for it. That's how long ago it was. I have to imagine other fanbases laugh hard every year they see MSG playing Summer of '94 after we get eliminated. I'd be laughing if Leafs fans were still celebrating 1967.

Saw this on the mainboard. It really epitomizes how woefully incompetent this Dolan franchise is, what with us wasting 15 years of prime Lundqvist without a single f***ing Cup win:

 

[Crease]

The only championship won by the four teams I follow. I was 7.

 

[Row I Goon]

 

[Cygnus 2112]

The first hockey game I ever watched. My best friend was a big fan and he explained the significance of it so I tuned in. Obviously I didn’t know what was going on (I remember thinking at the end ‘what the hell is icing and why do they keep saying it’s happening?’). Became a fan and have been ever since. But yeah, as much as I love the highlight clips and Road To Victory, enough already. Win NOW.

 

[eco's bones]

It's like Rangers fans back then made a deal with the devil. If you let us win this after 54 years (and a good decade's worth of taunts from Islanders and other fans) that'll be enough. We're not greedy and we won't bother you again.

But then of course it wasn't enough but it's what we got and all future Rangers fans have had to suck it.....so you can blame us but looked at another way this could be year 84. One thing I remember well was how it finished with that stupid f*** of a linesman Collins calling two straight plays icings in the final moments that weren't really icings. Besides the players passing the Cup around the next best thing was the parade. That was awesome.

 

[NYRFAN218]

Sam wasn't kidding.

 

[Harbour Dog]

I turned 6 years old on the same day, and wasn't even a Rangers fan yet.

I think I owned a Florida Panthers lunch tin, because I was a child and I liked the logo. At some point during this run, Messier and Richter both got on my radar and, along with Hasek, I was always one of those three guys when I played road hockey.

Without this cup, I may have ended up a Sabres fan. Terrifying.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

I had just turned 9 and was just beginning to be a Hockey fan. Don't remember much but my dad setting off the outside alarm throughout the neighborhood when they won the game (it was LOUD).

 

[Boris Zubov]

I turned 6 years old on the same day, and wasn't even a Rangers fan yet.

I think I owned a Florida Panthers lunch tin, because I was a child and I liked the logo. At some point during this run, Messier and Richter both got on my radar and, along with Hasek, I was always one of those three guys when I played road hockey.

Without this cup, I may have ended up a Sabres fan. Terrifying.

Happy Birthday!

 

[Brutananadilewski]

What I wouldn't do to be a fly on the wall in that strip club after they won the Cup...or a crab on one of the strippers.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

Gut Punch the book about the 1994 Rangers:

 

[TominNC]

I guess it didn't. Fans seem to want another. Or is it only the under 30 crowd that are feeling needy?

 

[McRanger92]

I was 1 year old. Hope to experience one of my own one day.

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

Was talking to an older woman who runs an antique store in Montclair.

I saw a Rangers jersey in the window and on a whim I popped in to buy a lotto ticket. (Didnt win of course)

However, had a nice conversation with her about the Rangers not getting over the hump this year and 94.

We were talking about it we both agreed - We will ALWAYS have that 94 win. Something tells me it will be that way for a very long time. Regardless, we will always have 1994.

Thank God for that.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

I was 5 years old and didn’t know what hockey was yet. Didn’t start watching until 1997. Then they wouldn’t even make the playoffs again until I was graduating from high school.


My actual greatest memories of the team is the 2011-12 season, when we didn’t even make the SCF.


Thanks for nothing, Rongos.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I'm so tired of reading/hearing about 94.I want this damn team to make a new memory already

Was thinking the same. Loser organization has one memory since WW2.

 

[Ail]

NO MORE, '94!
NO MORE, '94!

 

[rangers1314]

I was 12. My dad’s office was on Battery Place, right where the parade started. He let me play hooky from school. Got a poster signed by 5 players. What a day.

 

[17futurecap]

The organization will be getting closer and closer to 1994 mock chants soon.

 

[Chaels Arms]

Can we stop doing this now