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2024 SWAC Tournament Preview & Predictions!
This podcast is the twenty-ninth of thirty-two shows as Madison goes through each 2024 College Basketball Conference ...
2024 MWC Tournament Preview & Predictions!
This podcast is the twenty-sixth of thirty-two shows as Madison goes through each 2024 College Basketball Conference ...
Day 72 - 72nd goal of Lionel Messi (vs Osasuna) 🔥🔥🔥 #shorts #messi #goat #football #barcelona
Lionel Messi's twenty-ninth official goal came on January 11, 2009, while playing for FC Barcelona against Osasuna in a La Liga ...
Cubs bring back Mike Tauchman | Matt Chapman to the Giants | Kris Bryant made a mistake?
On todays episode of One Twenty - A Chicago Cubs Podcast, Ben and Mikey break down all the headlines from the past week in ...
#1 South Carolina Gamecocks Women's Basketball vs. Tennessee Lady Vols - 3/3/24 - (FULL GAME REPLAY)
Game Twenty-Nine, and the Final Regular Season Game of the Gamecocks' 2023-2024 Season. #1 South Carolina Gamecocks ...
Gameday Tarps Ep. 25 The Calgary Flames Are The NHL's Busiest Team!
The Twenty-Fifth Episode From Gameday Tarps Podcast! Matt Rempe Has Arrived, The Best Collee Fight Ever? Orlando Yet ...
#1 South Carolina Gamecocks Women's Basketball vs Arkansas Women's Basketball - 2/29/24 -(FULL GAME)
Game Twenty-Eight of the Gamecocks' 2023-2024 Season. #1 South Carolina Gamecocks Women's Basketball vs. Arkansas ...
NHL '94 "Game of the Night" Rangers @ Devils "1994 Eastern Conference Final" Game6 Messier guarantee
Every New York Rangers fan knows where he/she was when Mark Messier called the shot. The move’s significance strips away youth, in a sense. Even young fans grasped the severity of May 25, 1994. Twenty-five years ago today (Saturday, May 25, 2019), the Rangers captain, the Messiah, not only guaranteed victory in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final against the New Jersey Devils, he delivered with a natural hat trick in the third period. Messier’s pregame words were straightforward. “I know we’re going to go in and win Game 6 and bring in back here [Madison Square Garden] for Game 7 … We have enough talent and experience to turn the tide. That’s exactly what we’re going to do in Game 6.” The backdrop of Gary Thorne’s ESPN broadcast only heightened the moment. “Do you believe it? Do you believe it? He said ‘we will win’ Game 6 … he has just picked up the hat trick.” Oftentimes, the details get lost when immortals step forward. Without Alex Kovalev’s first goal, none of this happens. Without Mike Richter standing on his head early on, Messier’s 1994 squad flames out so predictably (based on Rangers history). Without Esa Tikkanen‘s nearly designed penalty that created a four-on-four situation to New York’s advantage, Messier doesn’t collect his second goal. Of course, Stephane Matteau‘s double-overtime goal in Game 7 sent the Rangers to that last hill to climb, the Stanley Cup Final against the seventh-seeded Vancouver Canucks. (And yes, there’s only one way to take in the Matteau goal: with Howie Rose’s call.) Messier collected 12 goals and 18 assists in 23 total playoff games, playing second-fiddle (statistically) to only the Conn Smythe man himself, Brian Leetch. Spiritually, Mark Messier owned the moment and the franchise. He came, he conquered, and he erased so many demons to be crowned one of the greatest New York sports heroes of all-time. (1) New York Rangers vs. (3) New Jersey Devils This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with New York winning the only previous series. They last met in the 1992 Patrick Division Semifinals, which New York won in seven games. New York made their third Semifinals/Conference Final appearance since the league began using a 16-team or greater playoff format in 1980. They were defeated in five games by the Montreal Canadiens in their most recent Conference Finals appearance in 1986. New Jersey made their second appearance in the Conference Final. Their most recent appearance was in the 1988 Prince of Wales Conference Final, which New Jersey lost against the Boston Bruins in seven games. New York won all six games in this year's regular season series. With a minute remaining in game one at Madison Square Garden, New York was leading 3–2. However, Devils forward Claude Lemieux tied the game on a scramble in front of New York goaltender Mike Richter. The Devils went on to win the game on Stephane Richer's breakaway goal at 15:23 of the second overtime. The Rangers evened the series winning game two in a 4–0 shutout. The series then turned to the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey, for games three and four. Like game one, game three went into double overtime but this time it was New York who won 3–2 on Stephane Matteau's goal at 6:13 of the second overtime period. The Devils won game four by a final score of 3–1 and evened the series at 2–2. The Devils took the series lead with a 4–1 win at Madison Square Garden in game five. Despite the fact that his team trailed in the series 3–2, Rangers captain Mark Messier made a highly publicized guarantee that New York would win game six. After trailing New Jersey by a score of 2–1 after two periods Messier himself scored a third-period hat trick to rally the Rangers to a 4–2 victory. Rangers coach Mike Keenan said of the guarantee, "Mark was sending a message to his teammates that he believed together we could win. He put on an amazing performance to make sure it happened. Game seven played at Madison Square Garden, was a goaltending battle between New Jersey's Martin Brodeur and New York's Mike Richter. Brian Leetch gave the Rangers a 1–0 lead in the second period. Richter shut out the Devils for over 59 minutes before conceding a goal to Devils forward Valeri Zelepukin with just 7.7 seconds remaining in regulation. The two teams played into double overtime for the third time in the series and for the second time in the series it was Stephane Matteau who scored the game winner. Matteau scored on a wrap-around at 4:24 of the second overtime period as the Rangers won the game 2–1 and the series 4–3. Many consider this one of the greatest hockey playoff series of all time.