Mario's 5th goal vs Rangers

April 9, 1993. at NEW YORK

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• HOCKEY
• NHL
• MARIO
• LEMIEUX

[ZUFALL2938]

Lemieux made every goalie look mediocre. No. 66 is simply the greatest!!

[insaneiaq]

Hats off to the Ranger fans who recognize and respect great hockey no matter what team it is.

[jimmyk058]

Man this seems like it was yesterday...love it.

[BillyWagner13]

This was literally a day after I was born.....and I'm a Rangers fan lol

[dzanier]

I'm a Rangers fan & was at this game. We were watching the Rangers choke away a playoff spot a year after being the Presidents Trophy Winners. It was depressing as hell. At the time, the idea that 1994 might finally bring us that joyous moment we'd been waiting for for so long never entered our minds. Since it did, I can look back on this game & smile. Me & my friend never left our seats. We stayed the whole game. As much as we hated to see NY lose, we felt honored to have witnessed this.

[dzanier]

Whatever advantage Wayne had from 84-85 through 87-88 no longer existed once Wayne got traded to LA and the Pens started to get more talented players from within and outside the organization. Having said that, one could make the argument Mario was as good as Wayne.

[dzanier]

You're right to a point, but Wayne's first year he had nobody. Messier wasn't even on his line, plus Messier wasn't even close to an impact player yet. His linemates were Brett Callighen and Blair McDonald. Ring a bell? I didn't think so. Coffey, Anderson and Kurri did not debut until 80-81. In Lemieux's first season he didn't have much. Doug Shedden and Mike Bullard maybe, but those players were established scorers while Gretzky's linemates were unknowns.

[dzanier]

You're right. Lots of people don't know that.

[journeythruthepast]

@leez92 I never said that! God you're reading what you want to read. That's ludicrous. Why do you have to get so testy with me? I just said that it's a myth Gretzky always had superior support to work with. Only from 1981-88 and don't tell me the Kings teams Gretzky was on had more talent than the Pens of the late 80s and beyond. The 87-90 Pens weren't awful but nowhere close to the Oilers. But after 1990, Lemieux's teams were almost always more talented than the ones Gretzky played on.

[leez92]

@journeythruthepast Its not worth arguing with someone that thinks Dan Quin, John Cullen, and Rob Brown, were ever on the same level as Mark Messier, Glenn Anderson, and Jari Kurri, at any point in their careers.

[journeythruthepast]

@leez92 Messier had 12 goals then 22 before getting 50 in 81-82, Anderson was a good rookie in 80-81 but no better than Warren Young was for Mario. Wayne had no established scorer on his first 2 seasons. At least Mario had former 50 goal men Mike Bullard and Wayne Babych. Look up the 79-81 Oiler stats and you'll find the future stars were still moulding into form and the rest was crap that Wayne made look good. The idea Gretzky always had stars by his side is a myth.

[journeythruthepast]

Wasn't till year three that any of those guys did anything worth spit. And still, Wayne won two harts and a scoring title. And he still had 42 more goals and 108 more points than the next best player on Edmonton that 3rd year. He has Mario beat for years 3-6 of their careers in terms of surrounding talent for sure but before their prime he carried that his team much like Mario had to. Wayne was better from 18-22 years of age than Mario at the same ages. Helped that Gretz had more pro experience.