Sunday, April 08, 2007
Let's go Rangers!!!
Don’t look now, but the NHL’s six month exhibition season is almost over. No more shootouts. No more you get a point even though you lost. The hockey playoffs are about to start.
And lo and behold if the New York Rangers aren’t gonna get to participate. How exciting!! Rangers fans have been waiting for this moment ever since getting swept in the first round last year by the hated New Jersey Devils. Prior to the 2005-6 season it looked like Rangers fans were going have to accept that opposing crowds chanting 1994, was far better than opposing crosing chanting, 1940.
All Ranger fans breathed a huge sigh of relief as the team’s late season drive landed them the sixth seed and a first round match-up with the Atlanta Thrashers. The Rangers are as hot as anybody in the Prince of Wales conference. 17 up, 5 down and 6 ties since the arrival of all around star, and Elisha Cuthbert's boyfriend, Sean Avery. Already beloved by the blue shirt faithful, and hated by on ice rivals, the Rangers haven’t had an agitating goal scorer like this since the glory days of the legendary future Hall of Famer, Esa Tikannen. A man whose name is on Lord Stanley’s Cup five times.
The Rangers also have a shot in these NHL playoffs because they have a great goaltender in Henrik Lundqvist. A goaltender who has won Olympic gold for his country, Sweden, always gives you a shot. The favorites at the beginning of this tournament are the two teams with the best goalies. In the West, the Detroit Red Wings and Dominick Hasek, and in the East, that means future Hall of Famer and three time Cup winner, Marty Brodeur and the Devils.
Favorites, aside, the Clarion's sentiment is...Let’s go RANGERS!!! Let’s go RANGERS!!!
One last hockey thought, are their two anymore underexploited, undervalued sports brands than original-sixers the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks. Somebody could make serious bank reviving either one of those moribund franchises.
And lo and behold if the New York Rangers aren’t gonna get to participate. How exciting!! Rangers fans have been waiting for this moment ever since getting swept in the first round last year by the hated New Jersey Devils. Prior to the 2005-6 season it looked like Rangers fans were going have to accept that opposing crowds chanting 1994, was far better than opposing crosing chanting, 1940.
All Ranger fans breathed a huge sigh of relief as the team’s late season drive landed them the sixth seed and a first round match-up with the Atlanta Thrashers. The Rangers are as hot as anybody in the Prince of Wales conference. 17 up, 5 down and 6 ties since the arrival of all around star, and Elisha Cuthbert's boyfriend, Sean Avery. Already beloved by the blue shirt faithful, and hated by on ice rivals, the Rangers haven’t had an agitating goal scorer like this since the glory days of the legendary future Hall of Famer, Esa Tikannen. A man whose name is on Lord Stanley’s Cup five times.
The Rangers also have a shot in these NHL playoffs because they have a great goaltender in Henrik Lundqvist. A goaltender who has won Olympic gold for his country, Sweden, always gives you a shot. The favorites at the beginning of this tournament are the two teams with the best goalies. In the West, the Detroit Red Wings and Dominick Hasek, and in the East, that means future Hall of Famer and three time Cup winner, Marty Brodeur and the Devils.
Favorites, aside, the Clarion's sentiment is...Let’s go RANGERS!!! Let’s go RANGERS!!!
One last hockey thought, are their two anymore underexploited, undervalued sports brands than original-sixers the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks. Somebody could make serious bank reviving either one of those moribund franchises.
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