OFFICIAL: Next season #NYR will raise to the rafters @TheGarden to honor the career of Jean Ratelle! #NYR90 pic.twitter.com/vX6DmFqSJ1
— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) February 18, 2017
No. 19 is going, going, gone. Next season, the New York Rangers will retire the great member of the GAG line when his jersey is raised.
In 1951, 10-year-old pals Rod Gilbert and Jean Ratelle started playing hockey together on a frozen pond in Canada. 65-plus years later the New York Rangers will reunite these Hall of Fame hockey legends when Ratelle’s No.