An unforgettable moment.

[bmw2004]

I was watching Rangers Classics today on MSG. Game 7 Rangers VS Canucks 1994. What a moment of joy, moment of tears. Like it was yesterday, I remember watching this game 15 years ago on my TV. I was fortunate to meet the team on June 16th 2004 at Restaurant National, a Russian nightclub on Brighton Beach in Brooklyn. It was an unforgettable experience to see theStanley Cup for me and everybody else who was there that night. I was so lucky to take pictures with Mess, Richter, Graves, Buekeboom, Healy, Lowe, Karpovtsev, Kovalev, Zubov, Leetch, Tikkanen, Nemchinov and Keenan.
I really hope we would get a chance to see our team to win the cup again in the nearest future.
Please share some of your experience.
Thank you.

[mhurley]

I met Gordie Howe on Monday night at the Garden!!!!

Also, best hockey moment for me was the photo of Denis Potvin kneeling against the boards in anguish as the Rangers defeated the Fish in the 1979 playoffs.

[Anderson]

Ive been watching those games, and it amazes me how much players "got away with" in those days.

My memory, spending the night in NYC watching the game at a bar on 43rd or 45th. Then heading down to Penn Station after the game to watch mayhem ensue. Was a very fun few weeks, you could feel the energy in NYC for the week of the SC as well as a few weeks after it.

[Mio41]

I was watching MSG Vault and they had a special on the GAG line and they interviewed Hadfield outside Skateland, my father used to take my brother and I to watch practice there...I stood behind the glass behind Eddie giacomin for a 1/2 hour one time and he wasn't wearing a mask yet...

[jbennardo]

I still have that game on VHS. I recorded it manually... way too important to not save that!

[TomLaidlaw]

I think MSG needs to do more to remind us of the 1994 cup team. I don't think it is mentioned nearly enough.

[gravey9]

I watched the 94 Stanley Cup Celebration last night. At the end, they interviewed Adam Graves in the dressing room and he brought up Cele Sydell. She was a loooong time Rangers fan that died 6 weeks before they ended up winning in 94. Gravey said that when she died she brought the curse with her. And it frankly brought me to tears. I totally forgot about that story. I just think it's awesome that on a night like that, as the team is basking in the glow of its herculian accomplishment Graves brings it home by showing just how connected he really was to the fans of NY. I totally forgot he did that and it caught me off guard.

Near the end of the broadcast, they showed the rafters at MSG. There were only 2 numbers up there, meanwhile at that very moment, there are 4 players on the ice whose numbers would eventually join gilbert and giacoman. What a defining snapshot of a team and a moment.

[morffin]

Amazing...I still get nervous watching that game.

My best memory was of staying up all night drinking champagne ... walking around the city with a bottle in a bag and some plastic cups ... would stop everyone I saw with a Rangers shirt on and do a toast.... I was in front of the Empire State Building the following morning and a cop saw me drinking and asked me what the hell I thought I was doing ( in that special way that only a member of the NYPD can talk ) ... I slurred out, Rangers....sir!... he looked around to see if any other officers were around and did a toast with me. I can only imagine what the tourists around us were thinking.

What a great time...Sam was right ..it will last a lifetime...no matter how many other Cups we win..that one will always be special.