When Mats Zuccarello makes his Madison Square Garden return on Monday with the Minnesota Wild, it will invoke complicated emotions for every Rangers fan. That will be particularly the case for the many Norwegian fans, some of whom started following the Rangers specifically because of Zucarello.
Tommy Steinmo, who is from the northern Norwegian town of Narvik, took a casual interest in the Rangers in 2011 when the team was featured on HBO’s Road to the Winter Classic.
“When Mats came back from the KHL I started to watch games and became a fan (of the Rangers,” Steinmo said.