Day: July 24, 2001

by Ranger Extreme

Woke up Early to play a golf game with my old friend Peter Pocklington today. We laughed And joked how We both are considered the biggest morons in Hockey History for trading out the greatest player of all time for what basically came down to a Krappa load of fishnagles. Speaking of fishnagles J.D and Toucan Sam Rosen joined us on our golf outing. I asked them to fly up at their own expense to hit the lynx and afterwards to join me and Pocky over at his palatial estate to go over the scripts I had prepared for them to repeat at nauseam for the 2001-2002 NYR season.

The story is well known among Ranger fans, a kid chosen in the first round is branded by the GM as savior and by the coach as a role-player.  And so have gone the fortunes of one Manny Malhotra as he arrived at one of the worst times in the Rangers recent history.

It was back in 1996 when the center made his debut in juniors.  Joining the Guelph Storm, he lead all players with 44 points adding another 14 in only 18 playoff games.  That same season he played in the Under-17 World Hockey Challenge and was named MVP of the tournament.