The team was superb...great players...all with different skill sets. Potvin, Morrow, and Mike Bossy was the best stick handler and pure shooter I ever saw.
Talk about having one amazing year... Ken Morrow went from winning the Gold Medal in 1980 to winning the Stanley Cup soon after. That's a career in and of itself.
Back then the Rangers and Islanders had a real death rivalry. The teams detested each other. Rangers hadn't won a Cup in decades, here comes this upstart, pissant team that wins four straight..
I went to one Rangers/Islanders game at the Garden. You have absolutely no idea what it is like to hear 19,000 fans screaming at the top of their lungs;
POTVIN SUCKS!
“I went to one Rangers/Islanders game at the Garden. You have absolutely no idea what it is like to hear 19,000 fans screaming at the top of their lungs;
POTVIN SUCKS! “
I do. 40 years later you still hear Potvin Sucks! Now they have Dancing Larry.