I first felt it sitting in Madison Square Garden five minutes before Game 6 started. “Still New York” by MAX was playing, the pre-game hype video was on the jumbotron/ice, the crowd was starting to rev up. As the Rangers exited the locker room I got that strange half calm, half compete panic sensation one does before an elimination game on home ice. Then the thought washed over me.
Just come home.
I hadn’t felt that since 2014, when the Rangers were down 3-1 in their series against Pittsburgh (no not this time, that time) and Martin St.