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 | The new team turned out to be a winner--in their first season, the Rangers won the American Division, but lost to the Boston Bruins in the playoffs. |
| The Rangers won the Stanley Cup over the now long-defunct Montreal Maroons in only their second year in business, but it was not without some desperation: Coach Patrick had to be their goaltender for two periods of game two of the finals after regular goalie Lorne Chabot was injured. |
| Still, the many playoff failures convinced Rangers fans that this was a manifestation of the curse of 1940, which is said to have begun when the Rangers' management burnt the mortgage to Madison Square Garden in the bowl of the Stanley Cup after the 1940 victory. |
| Mark Messier: Information From Answers.com (509 words) |
| Mark Douglas John Messier (born January 18, 1961, in Edmonton, Alberta) is an Ice Hockey center in the National Hockey League, who has spent a quarter of a century in the professional ranks to date (1979-2004) with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, and Vancouver Canucks. |
| In Game 3 of the 1984 Finals, for example, with his Edmonton Oilers trailing the mighty New York Islanders by a goal, Messier ignited a comeback by beating an opposing defenseman one-on-one and then burning the goalie with a wicked wristshot to the short side. |
| The Rangers went on to win the series and the Stanley Cup (with Messier scoring the Cup winning goal in game 7)--their first in 54 years--and effectively put New Yorkers in a frenzy in the process. |
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