The Rangers have won the Presidents' Trophy which is roughly equivalent to those 1927 Yankees winning the American League pennant -- amongst other similarities.
The Rangers have won the Presidents' Trophy which is roughly equivalent to those 1927 Yankees winning the American League pennant -- amongst other similarities.
The prime reason why the New York Rangers will win today and beat Washington in the opening playoff round is because of New York's Murderers Row.
There are six in the Row and you know them well.
The Breadman Panarin, Adam Fox, Chris Kreider, Vincent Trocheck, Mika Zisbanejad and Igor Shesterkin.
And if the term "Murderer's Row" sounds familiar, you have to know your baseball, my good friends.
Murderer's Row was a label that originally belonged to the 1927 World Champion Yankees.
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For sure, you don't have to be a baseball historian to have heard of
Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. But there were four other Yankees greats on that rip-snorting Row -- Earle Combs, Tony Lazzeri, Mark Koenig and Bob Meusel.
"The Greatest Baseball Team of All-Time" many diamond experts have said.
Now we're watching the Murderer's Row of Hockey at every key Rangers position.
Breadman is having his best year; Kreider makes the power play POWERFUL.
In any given game, Fox is the league's best D-man, Shesterkin won a Vezina and Trocheck-Zibanejad equal Koenig and Meusel.
The Rangers have won the Presidents' Trophy which is roughly equivalent to those 1927 Yankees winning the American League pennant.
Nice for both but not big potatoes. Those Yankees then went on to win the World Series.
Ah, but your beloved Blueshirts have yet to win the big prize and we all know what that is -- Lord Stanley's Cup.
Taking out the Capitals' road block should be as easy as dunking a donut. Here's why".
In goal Iggy is better than the second-stringer the Caps have. Washington's best blue liner, John Carlson, once was as good as Foxy; but no more.
The Maven bows with utmost admiration for Alex Ovechkin but The Big 8 simply cannot do it alone, not even with Tim Wilson's urgent help.
And if tough Tom thinks he can toss Rangers around like a Yo-Yo, he'll have a bigger hill to climb -- Mount Rempe.
Ye Olde Yankees of '27 boasted strength from the top to the batboy.
Ye New Rangers boast strength from the goal crease to the stickboy.
Now we'll see if Peter Laviolette's puck men can make The Maven look good or make me and themselves -- I hate to say it -- look bad!
Drop the puck already; DROP THE PUCK!