Rangers Haven’t Won in Vancouver in a Long Time

The Rangers play in Vancouver tomorrow night and as Dave Lozo at NHL.com reports it’s been awhile since the Blueshirts last won in the great Northwest.

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The Rangers haven’t won a game in Vancouver since 1997. The only player still in the NHL from that team, technically, is Marc Savard.
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Wayne Gretzky scored his 50th NHL hat trick in that game against the Mark Messier led Canucks on October 11, 1997. The Rangers won 6-3.

…a lot of that has to do with the unbalanced schedule the NHL has gone with so the Rangers don’t play in Vancouver every year, but still that’s a long ass time ago.

Looks like Ryan Kesler (41g, 32a last season) has decided that tomorrow would be a great time for his return from off season hip surgery. Not going to help the Rangers chances of getting off the schnide.

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