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25 years later: How an off-day sparked Rangers to close out a Stanley Cup

If the game had been on June 13 instead of June 14, then the past 25 years might have been completely different.

But a quarter-century later, the Rangers and their fans get to look back on Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup final as the day The Curse was broken, the moment when 54 years without a championship came to an end. But without that second, extra day off coming back from a Game 6 loss in Vancouver — which followed a Game 5 loss in the Garden, making a 3-1 series lead evaporate — things might not have turned out how they did.