The Rangers this week unfurled their centennial logo that will be featured during the franchise’s 2025-26 100th anniversary season, but the only banner at the Garden I’m interested in seeing would be Brad Park’s No. 2 hanging from the famous pinwheel ceiling.
If there is ever a time to right the injustice that has perpetrated for decades, it is now. If there is ever a time to honor the second greatest defenseman in franchise history, it is now.
Park, who will turn 77 in July, has earned it. So has the generation of fans that grew up on Emile Francis’ beloved teams that, truth be told, kind of set the template for the half-century that has followed that group.
I don’t care if he played 36 games more wearing the hated spoked-B than he did wearing the Blueshirt, I don’t care if he played fewer than 500 games as a Ranger, neither does anyone who appreciates the tortured history of this Original Six franchise and neither does anyone else who sat the in the blue seats those days that both seem so long ago and like yesterday. We’re dwindling, if you haven’t noticed.
