As we await the next NHL season (please come soon), Forever Blueshirts looks at who belongs on the New York Rangers version Mount Rushmore. Here’s four iconic Blueshirts that we thing belong.
Rangers Mount Rushmore: Lester Patrick
Lester Patrick is the patriarch of the New York Rangers. The “Silver Fox” is as important to the birth, rise, and success of New York’s second professional hockey team as George Halas was to the Chicago Bears and Curly Lambeau was to the Green Bay Packers. Without Patrick’s leadership, team-building skills and coaching acumen, the Rangers may not have survived the Great Depression era, in which several NHL teams went bankrupt, including the hockey team that preceded the Rangers at Madison Square Garden, the New York Americans.