Rangers failing to keep up their end of rivalry with Islanders
NY Post
When it’s the Rangers and Islanders at the Coliseum on a Friday night in April, all should be right with our little corner of the hockey world.
But it is not. Well, at least not in Manhattan. Because the Blueshirts have been unable to keep up their half of the bargain, we are almost surely headed to a 27th straight year without a playoff Battle of New York. It was a smaller league way back when, but our two teams met in the playoffs in a seminal series in 1975 (what in the world was Steve Vickers thinking?) and then in another landmark matchup in 1979 that was front-page material, and then in 1981, 1982, 1983 and a fourth straight year in 1984, which ended with Ken Morrow in overtime.More Related News