1993 Stanley Cup Game 6 vs New York Rangers
The New York Rangers: a historic Original Six franchise that ended a 54-year Stanley Cup drought in 1994.
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. The Rangers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference.
Quick Facts
- Franchise at the time
- New York Rangers
- Opponent
- Vancouver Canucks
- Venue
- Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
- Series result
- Rangers won 4–3
- Rangers goaltender
- Mike Richter
- Franchise star
- Mark Messier (age 33)
- Rangers captain
- Mark Messier
Lore & Background
The Rangers were founded in 1926 as one of the Original Six NHL teams. After a 54-year championship drought, the 1993–94 Rangers, led by captain Mark Messier, defeated the Vancouver Canucks in seven games to win the Stanley Cup, ending the longest title drought in NHL history at the time.
Reader's Guide
The Stars have won nine division titles in Dallas, two Presidents' Trophies as the top regular season team in the league, the Western Conference championship three times, and the Stanley Cup in 1999, when center Joe Nieuwendyk won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs. Over the course of the franchise's history in both Minnesota and Dallas, the team has appeared in the Stanley Cup Final five times (1981, 1991, 1999, 2000, and 2020).
Did You Know?
- Mark Messier's guarantee of a Game 6 victory in the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals is one of the most famous moments in NHL history.
- In 1994, Brian Leetch became the first American-born player to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
- The 1994 Stanley Cup Finals were the first to be played entirely under the NHL's standard two-referee system.
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