Two Rangers Sweaters Will Rise Where a Cup Banner Didn’t (NY Times)
From The New York Times:
By Dave Anderson
Published: February 21, 2009
They skated in the Original Six, when the New York Rangers were one of only six teams in the N.H.L. (compared with 30 now), when only about 120 players, virtually all from Canada, were the best in the world (compared with about 650 now from North America and Europe). They deserved to have their uniform numbers retired long ago, but for Andy Bathgate’s No. 9 and Harry Howell’s No. 3, that ceremony is finally happening Sunday night at Madison Square Garden.
Unless you saw them play in the old Garden on Eighth Avenue between West 49th and 50th Streets more than four decades ago, you’re probably too young to know, much less appreciate, how skilled they were.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/sports/hockey/22anderson.html?ref=sports
By Dave Anderson
Published: February 21, 2009
They skated in the Original Six, when the New York Rangers were one of only six teams in the N.H.L. (compared with 30 now), when only about 120 players, virtually all from Canada, were the best in the world (compared with about 650 now from North America and Europe). They deserved to have their uniform numbers retired long ago, but for Andy Bathgate’s No. 9 and Harry Howell’s No. 3, that ceremony is finally happening Sunday night at Madison Square Garden.
Unless you saw them play in the old Garden on Eighth Avenue between West 49th and 50th Streets more than four decades ago, you’re probably too young to know, much less appreciate, how skilled they were.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/sports/hockey/22anderson.html?ref=sports
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