Retiring Rangers' #'s 3 & 9
Some thoughts about the uniform retirement ceremonies for Harry Howell and Andy Bathgate:
http://rangers.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=410591
1. From this Canadiens fan, hats off to MSG for a great job. Class through and through.
2. Sorry there were not more fans in the building. These two greats and those putting together the vening deserved better. As Al Trautweig siad in his narrative greats like Mr. Howell and Mr. Bathgate made the likes of Adam Graves and Mark Messier possible.
3. It was great to see some of the other former greats we often don't hear about and from: Former Rangers Red Sullivan, Lou Fontinano, Bill Gadsby (I remember him as a Red Wing), Earl Ingerfield (glad he received his due recognition), Bob Nevin and Arnie Brown. What about Eddie Shack back in a Rangers uniform (I recall him with most the Leafs, but also with the Bruins, Kings(?) and Sabres) ? Then there were some of my out-of-town greats from the six team era: Red Kelly, Frank Mahavolich, Stan Mikita and one of my personal favorites Dick Duff. But waht was that with those uniforms that Kelly, Mikita and the Big M never wore ?
And finally, from Jay Greenberg in The New York Post:
"....Now that two wrongs have been righted, there are two to go, even if the opportunity to tell Bill Cook and Frank Boucher, two Rangers pioneers, Hall of Famers and two-time Stanley Cup winners, how much they meant to the franchise passed with them dying in 1986 and 1977, respectively..."
"...Cook was a three-time NHL goal scoring champion, a three-time first team All Star. Boucher was a three-time first team All-Star in addition to coaching the Rangers to the 1940 Stanley Cup that stood as the franchise's last for 54 years...."
"'It should have been done when both just finished playing,' Howell said. 'They were the stars of the early Ranger teams, Cook especially. I knew his history, how great he was.'"
"Time for him to pass that along. Their numbers should be retired, and there should be a red carpet laid out for invited Cook and Boucher descendants. It's necessary, especially for a franchise that loves to exaggerate the richness of a checkered history, yet never has honored two men most responsible for its greatest era".
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02232009/sports/rangers/honoring_these_greats_long_overdue_156566.htm
http://rangers.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=410591
1. From this Canadiens fan, hats off to MSG for a great job. Class through and through.
2. Sorry there were not more fans in the building. These two greats and those putting together the vening deserved better. As Al Trautweig siad in his narrative greats like Mr. Howell and Mr. Bathgate made the likes of Adam Graves and Mark Messier possible.
3. It was great to see some of the other former greats we often don't hear about and from: Former Rangers Red Sullivan, Lou Fontinano, Bill Gadsby (I remember him as a Red Wing), Earl Ingerfield (glad he received his due recognition), Bob Nevin and Arnie Brown. What about Eddie Shack back in a Rangers uniform (I recall him with most the Leafs, but also with the Bruins, Kings(?) and Sabres) ? Then there were some of my out-of-town greats from the six team era: Red Kelly, Frank Mahavolich, Stan Mikita and one of my personal favorites Dick Duff. But waht was that with those uniforms that Kelly, Mikita and the Big M never wore ?
And finally, from Jay Greenberg in The New York Post:
"....Now that two wrongs have been righted, there are two to go, even if the opportunity to tell Bill Cook and Frank Boucher, two Rangers pioneers, Hall of Famers and two-time Stanley Cup winners, how much they meant to the franchise passed with them dying in 1986 and 1977, respectively..."
"...Cook was a three-time NHL goal scoring champion, a three-time first team All Star. Boucher was a three-time first team All-Star in addition to coaching the Rangers to the 1940 Stanley Cup that stood as the franchise's last for 54 years...."
"'It should have been done when both just finished playing,' Howell said. 'They were the stars of the early Ranger teams, Cook especially. I knew his history, how great he was.'"
"Time for him to pass that along. Their numbers should be retired, and there should be a red carpet laid out for invited Cook and Boucher descendants. It's necessary, especially for a franchise that loves to exaggerate the richness of a checkered history, yet never has honored two men most responsible for its greatest era".
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02232009/sports/rangers/honoring_these_greats_long_overdue_156566.htm
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