So this is just the most spectacular and most painful season in Rangers history, right?
I mean, the Tony DeAngelo fiasco that was organizationally self-exploited; Artemi Panarin case of Russian intrigueIn which he was considered a piece of political attack on a young woman a decade ago.
Then the Tom Wilson case, in which Panarin was dislocated and slipped from the body to ice twice after a Golmouth scandal. Following the NHL’s failure to suspend Wilson, the Rangers’ statement aroused the league and George Parrows, and six first-period fights that took place two nights later at the Garden.
And it is at the heart of Wilson Mad that John Davidson and Jeff Gorton’s two chief executive hockey executives of the club appear to have been fired, triggering a cry of betrayal from a fan base, who are on the rebuilding process. Have become accustomed The franchise may have sold very well.
Anything else? Well, the coaching staff that was missing six matches in the middle of the season was notable, but every team in the league had to endure the inconsistencies created by the epidemic, so it becomes one of many starred footnotes for the season.
So, was this the most eventful and painful year in franchise history?
Only if you are not familiar with 1975-76.
Because during the first four months of that season a series of hockey earthquakes occur, followed by incredible tremors, and the entire Rangers universe comes off its axis.
First, Ed Giacomin was forgiven on 31 October. Then on November 7, the Giants Jean Ratel and Brad Park were traded to the despised Phil Esposito and Carole Wadnis in Boston, and suddenly fans were forced to accept the enemy who had fallen in between them.
And you know that Giocamin was sent three days ago, so was Vegina-winner and Jack-o-lantern-mask-clad Gilles Willemer.
Now, Davidson’s exit was already from a summer trade for Davidson, and he had not played a game that season, but the deal benefited Chicago defenseman Doug Jarrett, who faded to join the Rangers. Became one of the herds of. For a year or two they feel an extension-type.
Come on. Bill Goldsmith
The Shockwaves halved the ice for a spell, but were humiliated 7-3 by the Red Army team at the Garden on December 28 in the first game of the NHL-USSR Super Series ’76, showing one after three nights in history. The most celebrated international matches were the New Year’s opening 3-3 between the Canadiens and the Red Army at the Forum in Montreal.
Of course while that game was being played, the Rangers were being crushed 8–1 at the Gardens by the Flames of Atlanta.
Less than a week later, Emil Francis, who was the founding father of the modern era of the franchise, was fired. He was sacked on January 6, 1976, along with head coach Ron Stewart, whose team was 15–20–4. Guys, was The Cat seriously hired to coach the team between Bernie Geoffrian, Larry Popin and Stewart, seriously among their own gigs behind the bench?
And came John Ferguson, another mortal enemy as a Canadiens policeman who tormented the Rangers, in the dual role of GM-coach the next day. They continued to harass the team by changing their uniforms and fashion antics of the Winnipeg Jets.
So, within 10 weeks: Goodbye to Villur, Giacomin, Park, Ratel and Francis. One. Shockwave. After one more.
And unlike any other season. Even by 2020-21.
Lost in the uproar created by the unsuccessful department of player safety’s failure to suspend Wilson, along with another example of unforgivable leniency from Paros’ office, saw Shyne Gostberhair of Teh Flyers for his cross-check just two- The Penguins’ Mark Freedman hit the end boards after a free-net goal by a Pittsburgh winger who sentenced the game.
The puck was in the net. The play was over. Freedmen started swinging. Gostisbeheer, one of the two flyers who followed, then cross-checked / autopsied Gracheutus. Not only was it dangerous, it was a violation of hockey etiquette, if not in the same area as the 1993 Hitler-Pierre Turgen episode, but still completely unacceptable.
Gostisbehere should receive 15 games to move to next season. Instead he got two. Apparently that was a statement of parrots.
And the NHLPA remains silent.
So you know what was one of the least terrible terrible trades of the Francis era? One on November 30, 1973 in which the Rangers sent Mike Murphy, Tom Williams and Sheldon Kangeijeser to the Kings for Gilles Marrote and Rayle Lemieux.
Marotte, better known as Captain Crunch – indeed, I’m not sure if it was his surname or just the surname by which he was known, and derivatively, then in Section 419 – omitted in three. Was on the wrong side of deals gone. History of the NHL.
In the deal with Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge and Fred Stanfield, the defenseman moved from Boston to Chicago, re-enabling the Bruins Cup in 1970 and 1972, then bringing the legendary Bill White to the Black Hawks in a trade from Chicago to Los Angeles. . And then this one.
Imagine
Tom Williams Rangers Deal in Marot Deal 1960s Bruins is not Tom Williams, whose name was the lone Yanke in the NHL when the mandatory suffix of “American Boy” was made.
Maybe it was just a victory Elliott Saturday night game special.
Q: Do you have to sit in section 419 to find out who had the nickname, “Boards, Billy to the Boards?”
You know, I remember writing poorly about Nick Beverley’s performance as the Kings GM, and I’m hoping now that it wasn’t because I hired him for a player coming to the Rangers in exchange for a wick headfield .
Finally, reading that the Rangers’ statement generated support for the parrot among the general managers of the NHL, I am reminded that there was a body of gentlemen who ever gave Stephen Walkcom the title of Standing Ovation.
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