{"time":1773849000202,"blocks":[{"id":"bVtISYA45I","type":"image","data":{"caption":"Thomas Salus-Imagn Images","withBorder":false,"withBackground":false,"size":"full","alignment":"center","linkUrl":"","file":{"url":"https://deweb-519a7.b-cdn.net/post-images/935b496c-4ae2-4c22-a8f2-bb03c17adbef.jpeg","width":3718,"height":2479}}},{"id":"WlrlecbOhb","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"When the National Hockey League season started in October, there was unmitigated joy on both sides of Henry Hudson's River."}},{"id":"JFqdrFdDvJ","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"I recall one otherwise sober individual actually telling me that New Jersey's Devils would win the Stanley Cup for the first time in 23 years."}},{"id":"oje9rDL8xl","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Meanwhile, Rangers fans were celebrating because The Hockey News Yearbook promised a playoff berth for the New York Retools. (And what a novelty that would have been.)"}},{"id":"Wa7O3Kuayf","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"\"Nobody's perfect,\" chuckles The Old Scout, \"but the two teams about to miss the postseason by so much is hard to believe.\""}},{"id":"mmw7v5dh","type":"video","data":{"url":"https://us-central1-deweb-519a7.cloudfunctions.net/mediaService-api/videos/ba2d7f42-684c-42f0-9bd3-7edb27522039/mp4","caption":"","autoplay":false,"controls":true,"muted":false,"stretched":true,"width":0,"height":0,"image":{"url":"https://us-central1-deweb-519a7.cloudfunctions.net/mediaService-api/videos/ba2d7f42-684c-42f0-9bd3-7edb27522039/thumbnail"},"cdn":{"videoId":"ba2d7f42-684c-42f0-9bd3-7edb27522039","libraryId":"372172","collectionId":"30032062-eefd-4041-a355-12ad05bc987b","cdnBaseUrl":"https://vz-052fc010-b27.b-cdn.net","mp4Url":"https://us-central1-deweb-519a7.cloudfunctions.net/mediaService-api/videos/ba2d7f42-684c-42f0-9bd3-7edb27522039/mp4","thumbnailUrl":"https://us-central1-deweb-519a7.cloudfunctions.net/mediaService-api/videos/ba2d7f42-684c-42f0-9bd3-7edb27522039/thumbnail","previewAnimationUrl":"https://vz-052fc010-b27.b-cdn.net/ba2d7f42-684c-42f0-9bd3-7edb27522039/preview.webp"}}},{"id":"GLCoRAyi0U","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Here are the things that went wrong:"}},{"id":"MBpTh6bRoY","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"1. Neither the Devils nor Rangers, who meet tonight at The Garden, have Matthew Schaefer in their lineup."}},{"id":"g_mB6imiJG","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"2. The Devils were self-torpedoed when ace – later to be known as Gold Medalist – Jack Hughes forgot to be super-careful at a team party. Jumpin' Jack's absence was devastating; and that's an understatement."}},{"id":"s50X8xLhWh","type":"linkTool","data":{"link":"https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/new-york-rangers/latest-news/the-rangers-fall-back-down-to-earth-in-loss-to-kings","meta":{"title":"The Rangers Fall Back Down To Earth In Loss To Kings ","site_name":"The Hockey News","url":"https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/new-york-rangers/latest-news/the-rangers-fall-back-down-to-earth-in-loss-to-kings","description":"Hot scientific news fresh off the ice. The Rangers have invented the mirage.\n","image":{"url":"https://deweb-519a7.b-cdn.net/post-images/4637e711-f03d-4843-aa31-b5ce2f84baaf.jpeg","type":"jpeg"}}}},{"id":"gsGPmZFSkS","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"3. Since there was no one else on the Devs roster named Jack Hughes, the skating Satans were, in a word, bedeviled! (Poof! Just like that, out of the playoffs."}},{"id":"2DnIA3z5wU","type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"4. The Rangers, on the other (non-injured) hand, forgot to remove the 2024-25 calendar from the clubhouse wall, and simply stunk out the season with a ditto like the previous year."}}],"version":"2.31.0"}

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