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WAKE UP, RANGERS FANS!
Stop fuming, moping, sulking and writing negative things about your Beloved Blueshirts.
Despite recent setbacks, they are in a good position to make the playoffs. There are three-reasons for this:
1.TALENT: Man for man – or go up and down the line -- the Blueshirts have more good players than Montreal, Detroit, the Blue Jackets and Islanders. (Genius will out! )
2.SCHEDULE: Rangers games coming up include Anaheim, San Jose, Minnesota and New Jersey. Each one of the foes is vulnerable in one form or another. A possible eight points is there for the taking. (So, take it already, and start a streak.)
3.HISTORY: The current Blueshirts remind me of a New York team from yesteryear – the 1949-50 edition, to be exact. Those Blueshirts finished the season with a dismal under-.500 record. They were destined for a quick elimination. Guess what happened? They got hot; knocked off Montreal in five games and then took Detroit to seven games and two overtimes before bowing out.
4. MORE HISTORY: In the spring of 1995, the Devils barely limped into a playoff berth, had one last practice before meeting Boston in the opening round. "We got hot at just the right time," said defenseman Bruce Driver, and won all four series. In the Final, we beat Detroit in four straight.
5: MORE HISTORY: In 1938 the Chicago Black Hawks finished with an under .500 and won The Cup. Ditto for the 1949 Toronto Maple Leafs.
This is not make-believe hockey history. The trick for the Rangers – as it was for the Hawks, Leafs, Devils – is just GET IN. Once your club is in, then the fun starts and upsets happen.
But the homestretch surge must begin in Anaheim and continue in San Jose.
Hey, it's not that hard. You win one, the second is not that hard and that's why I wrote a second column on this because the big question with the Rangers is all about WILL.
Do they really want to make the playoffs or do they want to go down in history as the most disappointing Rangers club of all-time.
Read my adjoining column and you'll get another view. WARNING: Not pleasant, I assure you.
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