Ask Adam Graves about 1994 and the memories come flooding out, like water from a fire hydrant someone opened on a hot summer day in the city.
“I can tell you, I played hockey since the time I was 5 years old,’’ Graves said in a phone interview this past week. “I’m close to 50 now, and I still play whenever I get the opportunity. And I have never played on a team that cared about each other and were that close as I did that year.’’
The Rangers will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their 1994 Stanley Cup victory on Friday before the current Blueshirts host the Carolina Hurricanes at Madison Square Garden.