![]() Our football teams have won zero playoff games. Our baseball teams won five playoff series between them. 5, 2012, there have been exactly zero championships, and as many near-misses. To recap, since the Giants won Super Bowl 46 on Feb. Getty ImagesĪnd then five years pass, in an eyeblink.Īnd the Rangers joined in with the rest of the New York sporting chorus, all nine pro teams taking turns singing “Wait Till Next Year,” Next Year never arriving for any of them. Mika Zibanejad, (l.), Chris Kreider (c.), Adam Fox (r.) and the Rangers open the 2022 NHL playoffs Tuesday at home against the Penguins. Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider scored the goals. That kind of logic and professionalism is why the Rangers are where they are, why on Tuesday they will play their first postseason game at the Garden in 1,820 days, a drought that stretches back to May 9, 2017, a 4-2 loss to Ottawa that halted that season’s playoff aspirations. It’s a long series, but it’s a short series, too.” Probably just keep that even-keel mentality. And if you lose Game 1, doesn’t mean you’re going home in four. If you win Game 1 of the first round, it doesn’t mean you won the Stanley Cup. Rangers center Andrew Copp spoke the other day of “just the even-keel mentality. Tuesday night, starting maybe an hour before quitting time, the folks will gather at Mustang Harry’s and Jack Doyle’s, at Lucy’s and Tir na Nog and The Keg Room, all of them in their sacred blue vestments.Īnd after an hour of warm-up and perhaps a Guinness or two, all you need to do is follow that great blue wave as it crawls toward the Garden, toward the first round of the NHL playoffs, Rangers versus Penguins in what - your lips to God’s ears - might be as close to playoff nirvana as the law allows. Tuesday night, New York City won’t need a road map to find the best place in town. It feels like they have been rebuilding Madison Square Garden - inside and outside, the basketball team and the hockey team - since eight-day bike races used to dominate that marquee.īut that’s OK. The regal entrance on Seventh Avenue is still embalmed in a clutter of construction, meaning it’s easy to get turned around if you’re looking for the famous marquee. Kevin Durant trade saga turned the Nets brass into stooges Pete Alonso in middle of everything in Mets loss Mets deliver perfect Willie Mays tribute with surprise number retirement at Old-Timers' Dayĭonovan Mitchell trade stalemate can’t lead to this Knicks mistake Julius Randle could take advice from Francisco Lindor for New York comeback story
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