The Rangers this week unfurled their centennial brand that will probably be featured throughout the franchise’s 2025-26 one centesimal anniversary season, however the one banner on the Backyard I’m fascinated about seeing can be Brad Park’s No. 2 hanging from the well-known pinwheel ceiling.
If there’s ever a time to proper the injustice that has perpetrated for many years, it’s now. If there’s ever a time to honor the second biggest defenseman in franchise historical past, it’s now.
Park, who will flip 77 in July, has earned it. So has the technology of followers that grew up on Emile Francis’ beloved groups that, reality be informed, type of set the template for the half-century that has adopted that group.
I don’t care if he performed 36 video games extra carrying the hated spoked-B than he did carrying the Blueshirt, I don’t care if he performed fewer than 500 video games as a Ranger, neither does anybody who appreciates the tortured historical past of this Authentic Six franchise and neither does anybody else who sat the within the blue seats these days that each appear so way back and like yesterday. We’re dwindling, if you happen to haven’t observed.
