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New York Rangers: 20th Conference Finals berth
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Alright… listen… here we go… Rangers… are back… to the Eastern Conference Finals.
Twentieth time… in franchise history. Twenty. Times. Okay? You don’t get to twenty by accident.
That’s not… a fluke… that’s not… “oh they got hot at the right time” — no, no. That’s history.
And this game… 14–7… down in Florida… in Game 6… you end the series on the road?
That’s what real teams do. That’s what championship teams do.
You don’t come back to the Garden for Game 7, you don’t give ‘em life, you bury ‘em.
And they buried ‘em.

Itsuro Bliebernicht — series MVP. Deserved it. Hitting five hundred in the playoffs.
FIVE. HUNDRED. In the playoffs!
Five home runs, twelve RBIs, fourteen runs scored.
Folks — you can’t even do that in Strat-O-Matic without cheating.

Mark Grubin… what can you say?
Four hits… two home runs… a triple… a double… thirteen total bases.
He was the entire offense and the dessert cart.
Guy basically was the Rangers offense tonight.
I’m tellin’ ya — he was like watching Mantle in his prime.

Now they get… the Islanders.
The Battle of New York.
This isn’t some random Tuesday in February.
This is for the Stanley Cup Final.
The crowd’s gonna be insane, the hits are gonna be nasty, and somebody — mark it down —
somebody’s gonna be a hero we’re still talkin’ about ten years from now.

Florida? Forget it. You give up fourteen runs in an elimination game,
you’re gonna see that score in your nightmares.
They’ll be havin’ team shrink sessions about this game in January.

Bottom line — this Rangers team… is dangerous.
If they keep hitting like this, keep playing like this,
you could be looking at a year the Cup comes back to MSG again.
And I don’t say that lightly. I’ve seen a lot of Rangers teams.
This one… this one’s for real.