Retro Rangers: Forgotten Blueshirts
Do the names Hub Anslow, Ron Rowe, Herb Foster, Huddy Bell, Jean-Paul Denis or Alex Ritson, ring a bell? How about Len Wharton, Henry Dyck, Max Labovitch or Art Strobel? Unless you’re a true student of the game...
Book Review: “Toe Blake: Winning is Everything” by Paul Logothetis
This writer’s personal motto has always been “History abhors a vacuum”.
For much too long there has been a vacuum in the annals of hockey history: a definitive biography of the late Toe Blake. Even though To...
Retro Rangers: Pavelich Paid the Price
In February 1980, Mark Pavelich was sitting on top of the world as a key member of the US Hockey team that won the Gold Medal in the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. He then went on to be an unlikely s...
Retro Rangers: From House Goalies to EBUGs
During the NHL’s early years, teams were only required to dress one goaltender. If that netminder was injured he either had to play through the pain and return to the game after being repaired or his team had t...
Retro Rangers: The Quest for Big Ned
At 6-foot-2, 205 pounds Czechoslovakian Vaclav Nedomansky was everything Emile Francis, as well as most of the other GM’s in the league, was looking for in a center during the 1970s. He was big and strong, ...
Cammi Granato Out Front of Trends
She’s used to being out front of trends. Cammi Granato was playing hockey with boys when she was a teenager back in the 1980s, because that’s where the good competition was. She was a member of the US Women’s N...
Retro Rangers: Remembering Arnie Brown
Defenseman Arnie Brown came to the Rangers along with Bob Nevin, Dick Duff, Rod Seiling and Billy Collins in the blockbuster February 22, 1964 deal that sent Blueshirt captain Andy Bathgate and Don McKenney to ...
Cold War Survivor
Not many North American fans ever saw Vaclav Nedomansky play. His career over here concluded over 35 years ago. Perhaps none saw him play in his prime, because his best days as a hockey player came under Commun...
Retro Rangers: The New Kid in Town – Gene Carr
Gene Carr could have been a huge star in New York. He had long blonde hair and blazing speed but he had trouble putting the puck in the net and suffered a pair of serious injuries and so his time with the Range...
Retro Rangers: Making a Case for the Cat
I’ll get right to the point, Emile “The Cat” Francis deserves a banner with his name on it up in the rafters at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers have already retired the numbers of five of his former players ...