Twenty-five years after the New York Rangers’ won their last Stanley Cup, the animosity between them and their rival across the Hudson has cooled. The results of this year’s Draft Lottery will change that.
Other pens have already written about how the outcome of the Draft Lottery will reignite the Battle of the Hudson. Today we’re going to try and capture the whole picture, starting with the Rangers’ first Stanley Cup in 54 years.
History
The rivalry between what is now Newark’s hockey club and New York City’s hockey club was at its peak in the 1990s.