As the current New York Rangers team meanders their way through what is sure to be a second consecutive playoff-less spring, and as our fantastic team of writers profiles potential draft picks for the upcoming NHL entry draft, let’s go back in time a bit. Let’s take a gander in our rear-view mirror at Rangers squads that came oh so close to capturing Lord Stanley’s gleaming silver chalice.
Yes, the grim reality is that only one Rangers team in the last 79 years has achieved hockey immortality. However, if not for some unlucky bounces, egregiously bad officiating and freakish, untimely injuries, it is quite possible, if not probable, that there would be more than just four Stanley Cup banners hanging from the rafters at the World’s Most Famous Arena.