The Spring of '94

MSG Network looks back at the championship runs of both the New York Rangers and the New York Knicks during the Spring of 1994.

[@amazinmets8439]

The Rangers actually got more press coverage that year than the Knicks did, if you can believe it. That will probably never happen again in my lifetime. Hockey on the whole was red hot. Ratings were at an all-time high and the NBA was without Jordan at that time. He was playing baseball lol.

[@nymike06]

1994 was such a magical time for NYC.

[@BlueshirtFan4Ever]

It really was. I was 5yrs old when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup back in 1994. But I didn't become a permanent fan of the Rangers until I was 17 and graduated from high school back in 2006.

[@briancusack4386]

It sure was Mike. I was 14 at the time. I grew up on PEI - Canada's smallest province. I will never, ever forget that spring! What an epic run by both teams. I was cheering for both the Knicks, and Rangers, to pull it off! The reason why I am watching this video is because 25 years later, the memories are still vivid, and fresh.

[@StivenBonillaNY]

New York Rangers

[@briancusack4386]

@Jamarquavis Jefferson : Well, if your Knicks land KD, and Kyrie, in the off-season, things will be looking up!! :)

[@BlueshirtFan4Ever]

@@briancusack4386 It didn't...

[@VeN0m88]

Great memories, but bitter sweet with Knicks not winning, but they gave me so much

[@Amoney1109]

Vic R let's just put it this way it was an unbelievable year in New York

[@Amoney1109]

Vic R let's just put it this way it was an unbelievable year in New York

[@briancusack4386]

@Sanjay Iyer : You are correct. Like yourself, I think the Yankees would have made it to the WS that season. However, I think they would have lost to the Montreal Expos. The Expos were on fire that season, and had the best record in MLB.

[@KWCline91]

@@briancusack4386 I doubt the Yankees would’ve made it to the WS that year because Cleveland was a threat. Then, there was still Atlanta in the NL even though Montreal had a good year.

[@andrewryan6531]

If Pat Riley had been SMARTER in game 7 there in the decisive final game of the series in Houston to ride with Hubert Davis instead of John Starks then the Knicks would’ve won there too now! #Facts 👌🏼🔥 Despite Starks being a perfect 4 of 4 with foul shots he was also a dismal 2 of 7 from two point range and a PITIFUL 0 of 11 from 3-point range shooting at the same time there in a “MUST WIN” situation there going 6 of 22 in shooting as entirety for the game there. 🤮👎🏾🔥🔥

[@StivenBonillaNY]

1994 Was So Magical Year in New York City is the New York Rangers

[@brettteply1207]

In a way, I was glad the Rangers won the Stanley Cup and celebrated before the OJ Simpson car chase

[@carterjohnston9448]

I love this so much.

[@briancusack4386]

Same.

[@SportsFan2001]

I may not have been alive, but one thing I will tell you is: • My dad couldn't sleep the night they won the cup (He was an Islanders fan growing up) • My mom attended the parade

[@nymike06]

Very cool!

[@will-eh3qt]

If the Rangers and Knicks were both in the finals at the same time, I’d actually shit myself

[@michaelbelfer1069]

iRanger722 They were both finalists in '72..... and both lost. Wilt & Orr to put it simply.

[@ziggymorris8760]

Islanders and Nets rule the roost now.

[@ENTERTAINMENT35]

@@ziggymorris8760 😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@briancusack4386]

@@michaelbelfer1069 : Wilt, and Orr indeed!

[@amazinmets8439]

@@michaelbelfer1069 Rangers would have won if they had Jean Ratelle, who broke his ankle.

[@slapshot68]

2021 is just like 1993 in NYC

[@bb-gc2tx]

2023 is even worse keep voting democrat nyc this is what you get crime and chaos

[@kareemmoreland9119]

Jacqueline K Onassis passed away during this time.

[@nymike06]

So did Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman

[@freakyfornash]

To think that New York could have been a perfect 4/4 in 94 if the Giants had beaten Dallas at the end of the season, and gotten homefield as a result, if only Starks would have made that three at the end of Game #6 against the Rockets until Hakeem got a fingertip on it, and if the 94 baseball strike hadn't happened! So close, yet so far, even if the Rags got their long awaited cup, albeit came at a huge price down the road though!

[@sanjayiyer489]

Had the strike not happened, the greatest moment in New York sports that year would have been the Yankees, regardless of how far they went in October. The Yankees were against a curse that had left the team ROTTEN TO THE CORE, which was Steinbrenner's ruthlessness and that year, they were in revival and Don Mattingly hadn't been in October to all at his career. The Yankees hadn't been to October since 1981 and it appeared that 1994 would be the year, but the strike took it all away.

[@freakyfornash]

@@sanjayiyer489 94 truly was an amazing, but forgotten season for the Yanks, which the strike sadly put a premature end to. A Yankees/Expos World Series would have been epic to say the least that year too!

[@robertosso5210]

if pat riley had taken out starks sooner than he did in game 7 in the finals we would of had a double championship

[@u.s.m.c.fewproudthemarines2987]

SINCE 94 FAMILY IS PASS ON ONLY ME OLDER SISTER KATHY 65 ME 56

[@nymike06]

Sorry for your loss. My condolences to your family.

[@ziggymorris8760]

Defeated the bulls without Jordan.

[@Shelver92]

Richter throwing his bitch fit @28:58

[@betterdaysareatoenailaway]

ah c'mon lol. Belfour's done worse. I'm a Canadian but it was totally obvious back in the 90s that Richter was the best goalie in the world for at least a 3-year period and probably longer. Certainly from the 1993-94 NHL season right up until the 1996 World Cup of Hockey when the U.S. beat Canada because the Canadians just could not score on Richter. He was a wall.

[@Hannah-lq2ps]

That foul called on Pippen in game five of the ECSF is still the worst call made in NBA history.

[@robertosso5210]

no it wasnt when hubert davis was shooting pippen jumped and tounched his arm it was a clear foul

[@Hannah-lq2ps]

@@robertosso5210 it was after the shot. Should have been sideline out of bounds. Ball was on its way before Pippen made contact

[@robertosso5210]

@@Hannah-lq2ps it doesnt matter he still touched him.

[@robertosso5210]

@@Hannah-lq2ps that was also payback from a year earlier with charles smith trying to make the shot and 4 bulls were clearly fouling him and the dumb refs didnt call it

[@robertosso5210]

@@Hannah-lq2ps charles smith under the basket couldnt make the shot because severals bulls were fouling him where the hell was whistle on that?

[@bb-gc2tx]

spring of 94 knicks came up short and the rangers bought a cup with rent a players 🤣

[@bb-gc2tx]

@@user-hs7qf5vv2n i know but its pretty sad that this is the team ranger fans glorify and it was a team thrown together for basically one playoff run

[@epaddon]

There is something so dishonest about Stan Fischler's participation in this program. In the Spring of '94 he was still the ultimate Ranger-hater and smoocher for the Islanders and Devils on Sportschannel. He even argued in the immediate years following 94 that Matteau's goal should have been disallowed because he was in the crease (he wasn't). But ever since SC and MSG merged together, Fischler knew he had to airbrush from existence his hatred of the Rangers since the Emile Francis era and reinvent himself as the kid who'd been the Rangers fan growing up. He simply had no business commenting in this program.

[@bb-gc2tx]

its really not that big of a deal relax 🤣

[@BSBnSPNFan]

ok so spring of 2024 need so happen the rangers need a cup ASAP

[@clutchcity25]

Is this Gus Johnson narrating?

[@sanjayiyer489]

Yes

[@robertosso5210]

too bad the knicks didnt also win