Eddie Giacomin edges Mike Richter among fan faves
Darn it, I keep forgetting to post this information from MSG's series "Fans' Most Wanted: Knicks," and "Fans' Most Wanted: Rangers."
Better late than never; the finale of the Rangers' version is scheduled for four re-showings Monday.
Fans were asked to vote for an all-time team for both franchises. Here are the results.
Feel free to comment about the selections and boost my page views for August, since I'm taking some time off after today and will be doing limited blogging down the stretch.
Rangers: Goalie - Giacomin; Defensemen - Leetch, Park; Forwards - Messier, Gilbert, Ratelle; Coach - Francis
Knicks: Center - Ewing; Forwards - Oakley, King; Guards - Frazier, Monroe; Coach - Holzman
What about Richter, you say? Ed-die beat him out by only 1 percent.
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Neil -
What has happened to MSG Network? They use to have every team...But there programming absolutely stinks now. YES and SNY are much better...What are your thoughts about it?
Center--Ewing????????????????????
Two words---Willis Reed!!!!
The Knick Fans of Today are more of a loser than the Team
The Rangers are Ok, even though Richter won them a Stanley Cup. Some people under 35 yrs old have no idea how bad the Rangers were before Eddie Giacomin. Plus he produced the most embarrassing moment in Rangers' history when he returned to the Garden as a Red Wing.
Patrick Ewing is no way in hell the best Knicks' center ever. Willis is and I wouldn't count Walt Bellamy out either. (For an aside, I hate Georgetown.) I would probably go Dave DeBusschere over Oakley too because he won titles. And Bill Bradley over Bernard King for the same reasons.
MSG had to refocus programming due to baseball owners [Steinbrenner, Wilpon] wanting their own piece of the cable/satellite pie, and those owners got a hard-and-fast acclimation [their own tv channel with attendant profits] of their success and pretty damned huge egos.
Pretty much it in a nutshell. It was inevitable. So the MSG folks contemplate the Garden itself and its 300+ dates of entertainment, so the press releases say. Besides the occasional headline grabber [or fanny-grabber] that makes lawyers drool with envy.
Everyone still makes a hell of a lot of money. Just that the baseball networks make it in the spring and summer and the basketball/hockey networks make it in the fall and winter.
YES is an aberration. It's the YANKEES, gol dang it. Its Nets programming has below-Islanders ratings.
SNY is still trying to get tread as something other than the "Mets Network" ... IMHO they overpaid for the Big East pkge - a low-rated conference which in basketball at least from the first game to the last promotes its conference tournament -- in Madison Square Garden. [on ESPN], which the conference pays Dolan and Co. a huge fee.
MSG had to refocus programming due to baseball owners [Steinbrenner, Wilpon] wanting their own piece of the cable/satellite pie, and those owners got a hard-and-fast acclimation [their own tv channel with attendant profits] of their success and pretty damned huge egos.
Pretty much it in a nutshell. It was inevitable. So the MSG folks contemplate the Garden itself and its 300+ dates of entertainment, so the press releases say. Besides the occasional headline grabber [or fanny-grabber] that makes lawyers drool with envy.
Everyone still makes a hell of a lot of money. Just that the baseball networks make it in the spring and summer and the basketball/hockey networks make it in the fall and winter.
YES is an aberration. It's the YANKEES, gol dang it. Its Nets programming has below-Islanders ratings.
SNY is still trying to get tread as something other than the "Mets Network" ... IMHO they overpaid for the Big East pkge - a low-rated conference which in basketball at least from the first game to the last promotes its conference tournament -- in Madison Square Garden. [on ESPN], which the conference pays Dolan and Co. a huge fee.
While the TV version of the all time Knck team had Oakley and King up front, the msg website has DuBusschere-- I was amazed when watching the TV show that # 22, an NBA all time top 50 player was not named-- and Oakley was-- makes no sense. not even close
While the TV version of the all time Knck team had Oakley and King up front, the msg website has DuBusschere-- I was amazed when watching the TV show that # 22, an NBA all time top 50 player was not named-- and Oakley was-- makes no sense, not even close
Dan: Wawa pretty much covered the basics about MSG's programming challenges. But the Nets' ratings are better than the Islanders'.
Sorry for the double-post. Windows Vista sucks.
As for the Nets, I should have wrote "below Knicks ratings".
No one is below the Islanders as far as pro teams go, sorry to say.
Hope that reverses itself, soon.
I oughta start a blog.
"The Wacky World of Wawa" but it will be confused with the folks in PA that run my favorite dairy/convenience store.
The orange milk there tastes just like a Creamsicle.
Have a nice Watchdog vacation.
Am I the only one who finds it strange there are no pre 1960 Rangers on the list? Alright, there aren't a whole lot of fans alive from that era. But don't you think a similar poll of Yankee fans, besides the legends like Ruth, Gehrig and DiMaggio, might name a Tony Lazzeri for 2B or a Red Ruffing for RHP or Joe McCarthy as manager? Unfortunately "1940" only existed as a taunt instead of a celebration.
Wawa...Do you really think MSG makes that much money off hockey - or basketball for that matter?...The ratings for all of their programming dont match YES or SNY. You take shots at YES and SNY for their programming, but not at MSG????....in reality, YES and SNY are much better networks. you can't argue that.
I watched the entire careers of both Eddie Giacomin and Mike Richter. I'm not surprised that they were seperated by 1% of the vote. They are both Ranger goaltending icons, who were ultimate professionals, and true Hall Of Famers.