Imagine you are a lifelong Rangers fan. Maybe you grew up in Queens, playing roller hockey at a time when every neighborhood had its own team. Maybe you even had Rangers season tickets, first with your father, and then later, after you’d moved to Long Island and started a family, with your sons.
And say you became a hockey dad, taking your sons to early morning practices, and chasing them all over the Northeast with their club teams. Then imagine one of your sons grew up to be a hockey star, who played in college, got drafted by an NHL team, and eventually left college to turn pro — and signed with the Rangers.