Day: May 14, 2013

The last time the Rangers and Bruins met in the playoffs was April 10th, 1973, or to put it another way, it will have been 14,645 days.  Richard Nixon was in the whitehouse, and the Sears Tower wouldn’t be completed within the month.

Not a single current Ranger was born when the two teams last met, in fact Brad Stepan, Derek Stepan‘s father, was just 5 years old at the time.  Boston native John Tortorella may actually remember the series, he was 14 years old, but still five years away from joining the University of Maine Black Bears.

Last night the Rangers did something the franchise had never done since coming into the league in 1926 – win on the road in Game 7.  Four previous attempts had ended in losses, including a triple OT and double OT loss in the early years to Boston (1939) and Detroit (1950) respectively, as well as Chicago (1971) and Philadelphia (1974).

Back in 1939 and 1950 the format of the series was a little different thanks to the circus upstaging the Rangers.  In fact in 1950 they had to play 5 of the 7 games on the road, including the last three.