For all Ranger fans, June 14 1994 is a special day as it is the day the New York Rangers finally won the Stanley Cup with a victory over the Vancouver Canucks, taking the best of seven series 4 games to 3, and bringing an end to one of the longest championship droughts in professional sports history. The Rangers had gone 54 years without one, while only the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox of the four major sports (football, baseball and basketball being the others) experienced greater futility. Today is the 14th anniversary of that memorable day and so to Mark Messier - The Captain, our captain, we salute you and to all who followed - congratulations.
Post script, the Red Sox and White Sox have since won their World Series championships leaving only the Chicago Cubs with, by far and away, the longest drought in professional sports. They last won the World Series in 1908 (that's 100 years if your doing the math). To put it in perspective, that's the same year Ford introduced the Model T and only 32 years after Bell invented the telephone.
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