New York RangersAmerican Professional ice hockey team based in new York. One of the oldest teams of National Hockey League (NHL), the Rangers play in the Atlantic Division of the East Conference. The team won the Stanley CupThe NHL championship trophy, four times (1928, 1933, 1940 and 1994).
Founded in new York by Tex Rickard In 1926, as an expansion franchise, the team received its name from the New York Press, which nicknamed it “Tex’s Rangers” (a piece on the expression “Texas Rangers”). Rangers’ home matches were played in Madison square garden (A new arena of the same name opened its doors in 1968) from the team foundation. The Rangers were one of the “six originals” (as well as the Montreal Canadians,, Maple Leafs of Toronto,, Boston Bruins,, Detroit Red WingsAnd Chicago Blackhawks) which formed the NHL from 1942 until expansion in 1967.
Assembled by the legendary Conn Smythe (whose name is associated with the trophy awarded to the best player in the Stanley Cup qualifiers), the first teams of the Rangers were filled with future stars, such as Frank Boucher, Murray Murdoch and the Cook Brothers (Bun and Bill), and the team had an early success under its first coach, Lester Patrick (see Patrick family), which, on the eve of the first season of the team, replaced Smythe as manager-coach. The team finished first in his division in his first season, and in his second year (1927-1928), he won the Championship of the Championship by defeating Montreal Brown In a series in which the coach (and the former defender), Patrick, replaced Lorne Chabot as a goalkeeper halfway 2 when the latter underwent an eye injury; The Rangers have therefore become the first hockey team based in the NHL United States to win the Stanley Cup. They would reach the Stanley Cup final four times more in 1940, winning it twice (1933, 1940).
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The team had less success from the 1940s to the 1960s, when it often finished last in the six team league and frequently missed the play-offs, despite the fact that four of the six teams made playoffs each year. At the end of the 1960s, the team experienced a resurgence and started regularly in the playoffs. In 1971-1972 and 1978-1979, the Rangers made the Stanley Cup final, although they lost twice (in six games against Bruins in 1972 and in five games against Canadians in 1979). During the 1993-1994 season, directed by perennial stars Mark MessierDefender Brian Leetch, the left wing Adam Graves and goalkeeper Mike Richter, the Rangers have captured their first Stanley Cup since 1940, beating the Vancouver cannucks In seven games in the final. Despite numerous acquisitions and large names Wayne Gretzky And Luc Robitaille, the team could not reproduce its success of the Stanley Cup in the years immediately according to the 1994 season, and in the 1997-1998 season, the Rangers entered a seven-year-old drought in franchise.
The Rangers returned to the playoffs in 2005-2006 and in 2011-2012, the team-led by the goalkeeper Henrik Lundqvist and striker Marian Gaborik – will be his first division title in 17 years and qualified for the conference final, where he lost against the Devils from New Jersey. In 2013-2014, the team defeated its long-standing rival of Montreal Canadians in a series of six games from the Eastern Conference final to obtain a place in the Stanley Cup final for the first time in 20 years, but the Rangers lost against the Kings of Los Angeles In five games. The Rangers displayed the best NHL record and returned to the conference finals the following season, but the team lost a series of seven games against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The team qualified for the play-offs during the following two seasons, but failed to pass beyond the second round, and in 2017-2018, the team’s game reduced its doors, which led to the worst Rangers record since 2003-2004 and a last place of division.
