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The New York Rangers have retired nine of their jersey numbers. Also out of circulation is the number 99 which was retired league-wide for Wayne Gretzky on February 6, 2000. [202] Gretzky played the final three seasons of his 20-year NHL career with the Rangers and was the only Rangers player who ever wore the number 99 prior to its retirement.
The Rangers' new rivals, the New York Islanders, who entered the League in 1972–73 after paying a hefty territorial fee – some $4 million – to the Rangers, were their first-round opponents in the 1975 playoffs. After splitting the first two games, the Islanders defeated the more-established Rangers 11 seconds into overtime of the deciding ...
Although both teams were the top point-getters in the NHL during the Rangers' championship season of 1993–94 (the Presidents' Trophy-winning Rangers netting 112 and the Devils notching 106), [6] the story entering the Eastern Conference finals was the Rangers' 6–0 record against New Jersey that regular season. In the final weeks of the ...
The Bread Line was the Rangers' first notable line.Consisting of Bill Cook, Bun Cook and Frank Boucher, they played together from 1926 to 1937.. After a loss to the Boston Bruins in the 1929 Stanley Cup Finals and a few mediocre seasons in the early 1930s, the Rangers, led by the brothers Bill and Bun Cook on the right and left wings, respectively, and Frank Boucher at center, would defeat the ...
This is a list of players who have played at least one game for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1926–27 to the most recent complete season.. As of the completion of the 2018–19 New York Rangers season, a total of 932 skaters and 84 goalies have played for the Rangers in the 92 full seasons since starting in the 1926–27 New York Rangers season.
Pages in category "History of the New York Rangers" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Wolf Pack have honored a number of former Hartford Whalers players by hanging their jerseys in the rafters, without formally retiring their numbers. In 2006, Ulf Samuelsson (#5), Ron Francis (#10) and Kevin Dineen (#11) were honored by the team in this way, joining Rick Ley (#2), Gordie Howe (#9) and John Mckenzie (#19) whose numbers had ...
HBO's first sports broadcast was of a New York Rangers-Vancouver Canucks NHL game, transmitted to a Service Electric cable system in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on November 8, 1972. From 1972 to 1974, HBO used only one announcer on Rangers games so Marty Glickman , who was in charge of HBO Sports , hired other announcers to replace him when he ...