In the first two parts of our series on great New York Rangers teams that came close to winning hockey’s Holy Grail we looked at the powerhouse teams of the early 1970s. In part three of our series, we look at one Rangers team that wasn’t expected to succeed and came thisclose to winning it all.
Before Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr and dynastic Montreal Canadiens broke the hearts of the New York Rangers in the 1970s, two distinct enemies combined to thwart New York in the 1950 Stanley Cup Finals against the Detroit Red Wings: pedestrian left winger Pete Babando – and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.