New York Rangers St Louis Blues 5 FEB 1986 Complete Broadcast Part 1

Recently found a tape of a complete game broadcast of the NY Rangers—St. Louis Blues NHL game of 5 February 1986 from WOR-TV channel 9 in New York. Thought it might be of interest to true die hard hockey fans, because this is pretty much a run-of-the-mill mid-season game with nothing special about it—not even a fight. I'll post the entire game in several installments for the 10 or 15 people who may be interested.

One point of interest, this game took place on the day the Blues made their first contribution to making the Calgary Flames into a powerhouse team by trading Joey Mullen to the Flames. Later they would send them Doug Gilmour and the Flames would make the Stanley Cup finals in 86 and win the cup in 89 as Mullen became their leading scorer and Gilmour a key contributor. Both became hockey Hall-of-Famers while the Blues have yet to win anything. (Sorry St. Louis fans.)

Interesting that this particular year (1986) these two thoroughly mediocre teams, the Rangers and Blues, would both somehow make it all the way to the Stanley Cup semi-finals, the Rangers losing to the eventual cup champion Montreal Canadiens, the Blues losing to, guess who?—the Calgary Flames.

Of interest to Ranger fans—their star defenseman Barry Beck missed this game with an injury—as usual.

I have left a few of the original 1980's TV commercials in as a way to maintain dramatic verisimilitude. Also of nostalgic interest—many great views of the old St. Louis Arena.

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[radiodj1520]

In This Clip, From 0:37 To 2:25, It Was Madison Square Garden TV's New York Rangers Hockey Video Open From Wednesday Night, February 5, 1986.

[landrykkb]

Who knew that St.Louis & Calgary would collide in the Western Conference Final just 3 months down the road and the Flames just barely won that trade.

[retroguy1976]

I used to watch the rangers and knicks on ch9 awesome back then for sports plus the mets too

[TimThomure]

I miss the Arena! There was no place like it despite its age. Thanks for posting the entire game. It's like being there.

[MikeMths35]

This is great! Thanks for posting this! I remembering watching the Rangers that season.

[SFFOOL76]

Wonder if Demers was reading from a teleprompter? This is a pretty kick ass and cool intro, thanks for posting this.

[debraj5000]

yes this clip interests me, becoz i get to hear the open to the Ranger games shown on WOR-TV in 1986 after such a long time---n i like the intro animation n graphics, so it does have a nostalic value me as it bring back memories of the 80s