i live less than an hour from Hartford and ten minutes from Danbury in NE Westchester...there are tons of Rangers fans Danbury and that SW part of Connecticut- they won’t be changing their allegiance...
bringing the team back to Hartford from NC is sheer stupidity...
Danburian of yesteryear, and Ranger fan. My brother and I would take I-84 to Hartford when the Rangers played the Whalers, in the late 70’s. About a 55 minute drive, Civic Center was right off the highway exit, two bucks to park, and eight bucks for a reasonably good seat. Not as rousing as seeing them in The Garden, but a lot cheaper, and more convenient !
Now I watch them in Anaheim. Still convenient (25 miles away), but hardly cheap.
Didn’t Hartford just spend $60m on a stadium for a AA minor league baseball team? Sheer lunacy.