October 1991, the month that changed New York Rangers history. Mark Messier’s arrival brought a sharper, more arrogant tone to an organization riddled with the nagging year of 1940.
Messier, upon his grand entrance, couldn’t understand why expectations had remained so low for so long. A point in time had arrived in which expectations weren’t raised due to the continuing notion of bitter disappointment the fan base had suffered through the decades.
Nobody inside the organization wanted to discuss 1940. It was taboo, akin to a hockey plague.
The Messiah intentionally changed it all.