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Schwartz: Open Letter To Hockey Gods: Isles-Rangers In Playoffs, Please!

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Dear Hockey Gods,

As you know, there aren’t many things that fans of the Islanders and Rangers agree on.

For example, Rangers fans continue to chant “Potvin Sucks” because they think the hit the Islanders’ Hall of Fame defenseman delivered to Rangers center Ulf Nilsson back in 1979 was dirty. Islanders fans, of course, are of the belief that it was nothing but a clean hit.

I think it was clean, but, here, form your own opinion.

Islanders fan love to chant “If you know the Rangers … (well, a word that rhymes with puck)” to the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands!