Last week, Michelle Jay at The Ice Garden pitched four women’s hockey stories that Netflix should consider for feature films or mini-series after the streaming titan announced plans for a movie about the 1999 U.S. women’s soccer team and their unforgettable victory in the 1999 World Cup. I really liked the idea, so I decided to steal it.
The New York Rangers have been around since 1926, which pre-dates the invention of radar, Scotch tape, and penicillin. That’s old. If the Rangers were a kindly old grandpappy, they could spin yarns for hours by the fire whilst occasionally using terms and phrases that are no longer socially acceptable and offering hard candy that may or may not have been a keepsake from an MRE opened during the Battle of the Bulge.