Top Ten Most Important People in Rangers' History: #2 Mark Messier
Greg Caggiano at The Bleacher Report continues his 10-part series counting down the top ten most important people in Rangers' History with #2 Mark Messier.
...if Messier is #2, who the heck is #1?
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...Lester Patrick?
As per Wikipedia:
Patrick is famous for an incident which occurred during the Stanley Cup finals of 1928. At the age of 44, while serving as coach and general manager of the Rangers, Patrick inserted himself into a playoff game to play goal against the Montreal Maroons due to an eye injury to starting goaltender Lorne Chabot. Patrick allowed one goal in helping the Rangers to an overtime victory. The Rangers went on to win the Stanley Cup. He also guided the Rangers to another championship in 1933. He resigned as coach in 1939 for his one-time great center Frank Boucher and Patrick was again a Stanley Cup winning general manager when Boucher led the Rangers to their last Cup for 54 years in 1940. He finally retired as general manager in 1946, but stayed on as vice president of Madison Square Garden, finally exiting in 1950.
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...Lester Patrick?
As per Wikipedia:
Patrick is famous for an incident which occurred during the Stanley Cup finals of 1928. At the age of 44, while serving as coach and general manager of the Rangers, Patrick inserted himself into a playoff game to play goal against the Montreal Maroons due to an eye injury to starting goaltender Lorne Chabot. Patrick allowed one goal in helping the Rangers to an overtime victory. The Rangers went on to win the Stanley Cup. He also guided the Rangers to another championship in 1933. He resigned as coach in 1939 for his one-time great center Frank Boucher and Patrick was again a Stanley Cup winning general manager when Boucher led the Rangers to their last Cup for 54 years in 1940. He finally retired as general manager in 1946, but stayed on as vice president of Madison Square Garden, finally exiting in 1950.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Patrick
Lester Patrick was #8 on this list. The list goes:
10 Bathgate
9 Francis
8 Patrick
7 Gilbert
6 Giacomin
5 Jagr
4 Richter
3 Leetch
2 Messier
Who's left? Espo, JD, Dugay, Keenan?
Frank Boucher, he won 3 cups as a Ranger. 2 as a player and 1 as a coach. Harry Howell is another possibility.
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