As we prepare for what we hope is news that the NHL will ends its pause and proceed with a 24 team tournament style playoffs that includes the Rangers. Let’s take a trip down memory lane and look at some 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 80 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.