Twenty years later, the No. 1 star at Madison Square Garden will get to take the mulligan that was never quite in the cards for his spiritual ancestor. This time the icon’s name is Henrik Lundqvist, who leads by example as well as by performance. He yearns for a championship and believes he has the team to finally make that happen in the spring of 2015, his 10th year in the NHL.
Then, the icon’s name was Patrick Ewing, who led by example as well as by performance. He yearned for a championship and believed he had the team to finally make that happen in the spring of 1995, his 10th year in the NBA.