Nowadays, when you go to a Rangers game, you get more than just a game; you get a show.

MSG marketers make sure that not a second goes by during a play stoppage when fans are not assailed with something or other. What's more, The World's Most Famous Arena has a separate entertainment crew ready to stimulate your nervous system in one way or another. (As if the game itself was not enough!)

In the old, Original Six days, it was never thus: My favorite character sat at Old MSG's organ console, Gladys (Two D's) Goodding. For two decades, Gladys pumped out the best tunes and had a song for every single team that ever played hockey at MSG including the Sands Point Tigers of the old Met League. ("Tiger Rag," of course.)

Those Original Six Rangers teams never had cheerleaders but their Eastern Amateur Hockey League farm team, the New York Rovers did have a lovely, bevy of cheerleaders called the Roverettes. (Eleanor Pappacoda of Bensonhurst was my favorite.)

The Rangers Fan Club was organized in 1950 by Blueshirts publicist Herb Goren and it blossomed into a fine bunch of fans including jazz historian Ira Gitler, my insurance pal Hal Gelman, Fred Meier and Bernie Wolk.

A regular at Blueshirt games was a trombone player who always wore a gold lame jacket and blew a chorus or two on his horn before the opening faceoff.

Then there was "Hatpin Sally." A designer by trade, Sally Lark was a blond who had a season ticket right next to the penalty box. (In those days the penalty box was just a bench often shared by both teams and was not separated from the fans.

An ardent supporter of the home team, Sally had no problem schmoozing with visiting players as well as Rangers who were camped in the sin bin but she did take a disliking to a rugge Toronto Maple Leaf right wing named "Wild" Bill Ezinicki.

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One night, while Ezzie was wreaking havoc with the Rangers, Sally decided to get even. As it happens, Wild Bill was crouched for a face-off directly in front of Miss Lark with his derriere pointed in her direction.

Just as the linesman prepared to drop the puck, Sally pulled out an oversized hat pin and gave Mister Ezinicki a pin check the likes of which he never got from either Rocket Richard or Gordie Howe!

Or, anyone for that matter than Sally Lark. P.S. Hatpin Sally escaped without a penalty.