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Home > Hockey > Stanley Cup History > New York Rangers vs. Vancouver Canucks 1993 94
New York Rangers vs. Vancouver Canucks 1993-94
The Stanley Cup is one of the most-recognized symbols in North American sports. It is the championship trophy of the NHL, National Hockey League that is won by one of the teams that have qualified for the championship finals after playing a series of playoff matches. It is the only trophy in professional sports that has the name of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff engraved upon it. The Cup winners keep it until the new champion is crowned.
The Stanley cup championship of the 1993 to 1994 season was played between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks team. Since the year 1940, the Rangers team had watched eleven teams win the Stanley Cup. Five of those teams entered the league in the year 1967. The names of Clint Smith and the 1940 Rangers are no longer on the Cup gone to make room for new champions, new names and new traditions. And the dubious distinction of having the longest-running Cupless streak now belongs to the Red Wings, who last won in the year 1955.
Richter, who was chosen over John Vanbiesbrouck when the Rangers knew they were going to lose a goalie in the expansion draft, had four key saves when the Rangers trailed, 2-0, in the second period of Game 4 before his stop on Pavel Bure's penalty shot. He constantly kept the Rangers in the series. Messier's leadership was one thing, but the Canucks team could not find anyone to match him. He also had an effect on Trevor Linden, who had helped the Canucks win 11 of 13 games going into the finals but never got untracked playing against him.
The Rangers teams' power play was not the greatest in the series, but it had two important goals in Game 7. The provoking defense of coach Mike Keenan's kept the Canucks team backing away instead of aggressively winning the races to loose pucks as they did earlier in the playoffs. Finally the New York Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks team and won the Stanley Cup.
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