The previous ten years of New York Rangers’ hockey has been an outright treat. Although the team never captured Lord Stanley’s Cup, the organization was a perennial contender, made a cup final run and appeared in three different conference final. Sure, a cup victory eluded the franchise but it takes luck to win a championship in any sport.
This was in stark contrast to the first decade of the 21st century. Those Rangers were a Frankenstein monster of overpaid and over the hill veterans that could not compete with the juggernauts of the league at the time like the Detroit Red Wings.