…though until someone posts it to YouTube, we’ll have to take Eric at Off-Wing Opinion’s word for it.
Until such time, you’ll have to settle for a disco fever tribute to Petr Prucha’s rookie campaign.
Jaromir Jagr scored his club record 53rd goal of the season in today’s OT win over Boston, and afterwards, goalie Kevin Weeks comparing playing alongside the Czech superstar to what it must be like teaming with Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, John Stockton or Roger Clemens. Though we can nitpick about the chosen analogies, the following can’t be stressed strongly enough ; what Jagr has accomplished this regular season isn’t merely one of the greatest individual performances in Rangers history, it ranks amongst the finest campaigns ever in New York City sports.
And he didn’t even have to resort to extramartial affairs, gambling, short shorts, or steroids to achieve it.
He is, however, a big Bon Jovi fan, so you might wanna deduct some style points.
also – no guarantees from Double J thus far.
I mean, I know it isn’t like CSTB is chock full of Rangers content more than every now and then. But else does this year’s team have to do to be embraced by anyone behind the game’s hardcorpse fans? It would be simplistic to conclude that between the work stoppage and the don’t-call-it-Outdoors OLN hookup, the NHL has fallen off the average sporting schmoe’s radar. But that’s the deal. Most folks don’t give a fuck. Gary Bettman finally gets the hotshit team in media market numero uno…and the World Series Of Poker has more viewers. Whoops.
As one of those hardcorpse fans, I greatly miss being ESPN/ESPN2’s coverage. I’m seriously considering getting Center Ice for the playoffs so I can actually see more than two games a week.