by George Grimm | Mar 23, 2021 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
While the COVID-19 pandemic has cast a long, dark shadow on everyone’s lives, one unexpected bright spot has been the weekly ‘Hockey Time Machine’ broadcasts featuring a host of former players, coaches, announcers, referees, trainers and team executives The...
by George Grimm | Dec 26, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, Retro Rangers
At 6-1 and 185 pounds, Cal Gardner did not shy away from the physical side of the game and in 1947 he became embroiled in what was then described as the biggest, longest brawl in NHL history. Cal Pearly Gardner signed as a free agent with the Rangers in 1945 following...
by George Grimm | Sep 17, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
Tim Ryan graduated from Notre Dame University in 1960 with a journalism degree, in hope of becoming a newspaper reporter. He began working at the Toronto Star but was intrigued when he heard that a new commercial television network called CTV was coming to Canada....
by George Grimm | Aug 6, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
Edgar Laprade was considered by many to be the best senior hockey player in Canada during the early 1940s. Laprade began playing junior hockey with his hometown Port Arthur, Ontario, Bruins at the age of 16 in 1935. Three years later he moved up to senior hockey and...
by George Grimm | May 29, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, Retro Rangers
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 and the Rangers of the 1940s and 50s, most of those names...
by George Grimm | Mar 23, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
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 star for the New York Rangers before walking away from the...
