Next Sunday could have been the day. The Rangers and Bruins play a night game at the Garden after their respective alumni teams meet in the afternoon. So it could have been the day. And it still should.
But instead of Oct. 27 representing the date on which Brad Park’s No. 2 will be hoisted to MSG’s spoked ceiling to join his epochal peers Rod Gilbert, Ed Giacomin, Jean Ratelle and Vic Hadfield, it now becomes the date on which the Rangers should announce they are bestowing that honor on one of the two best defensemen in franchise history.