Some of Amanda Kessel’s earliest memories of the Rangers start with her younger brother, Blake Kessel.
Though Blake wasn’t a goaltender and grew up in Wisconsin, a Mike Richter 1994 Stanley Cup champion Rangers jersey hung in his bedroom.
“He had a Rangers wallet, too,” Kessel, a gold medalist for the United States women’s national hockey team in the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, told The Post. “It’s funny to think that now I’ll be working with them.”
On July 2, the Rangers announced their sponsorship of a girls youth hockey program — Junior Rangers Girls Hockey — with Amanda Kessel as its official ambassador.