NHL Original Six Series - The New York Rangers 1994 Stanley Cup Champions

MUST WATCH FOR ALL NHL FANS (2008-10-03)
This is a must watch for all NHL fans. We've never seen a Stanley Cup final as exciting as the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals. This was the most exciting finals we've ever seen in a long time, when the New York Rangers won their first Stanley Cup in 54 years.

I may be young to recall the Rangers winning the Cup, but the excitement of the finals really made the Rangers' win more exciting.

These are the most memorable calls on the Rangers win:

Rangers making it to the finals,: Mattaeu swoops in to intercept. Matteau behind the net, swings it in front. He SCORES! Matteau!! Matteau!! Matteau!! Stephane Matteau!! And the Rangers have one more hill to climb, baby! But it's Mount Vancouver! The Rangers are headed to the Finals!!!" From Rangers' radio announcer Howie Rose

Rangers winning the Stanley Cup: "The New York Rangers have done it here on a hot June night in New York! The Rangers are Stanley Cup Champions!" From CBC Hockey Night in Canada lead announcer Bob Cole.

Should have been fantastic (2008-03-22)
This week, while being home from work, I was able to view the entire 7 game series against the Devils. I haven't seen the final series yet. I enjoyed the entire series although I was a bit disappointed in a number of things regarding this DVD set. Unfortunately for Rangers fans, they use ESPN broadcasts for all but 1 game. The other game they use a Canadian Cable channel broadcast. I'm pretty sure these games were broadcast on the Rangers regular MSG network and that is what should be on these disks. Sam Rosen and John Davidson far surpass the announcer combinations on these disks. I also would have loved to hear the different calls of the Matteau goal at the end of Game 6, especially the famous Howie Rose radio call (Matteau!! Matteau!! Matteau!). There were definite technical difficulties with blurry footage for during some of the games which was very annoying. Plus, I wish they could have included some interviews of former players with their remembrances of each game as well as some pregame and postgame thoughts and interviews. Those would have been a fantastic addition to this series. Those things hold down the number of stars I give to this collection. Otherwise, it was a terrific way to relive the Rangers - Devils series.

Rangers Fan Who Lived Through It Live! (2007-08-09)
This is the greatest DVD set on the greatest team in sports (yes, I own season tickets). You are not a true Ranger fan until you add this to your collection. Only improvement would be to add the original MSG broadcasts for the network games. However, I got those from MSG during the strike and burned them to DVD. The quality is much better here, however.

Seems like ages ago - wait......it was!! (2007-04-29)
As a massive Rangers fan, I was so happy to receive this as a birthday gift. With 15 DVD's crammed full of the conference and Stanley cup series, it is something that I have not been able to switch off. People have made comments about the broadcast quality, but you must remember that this is from a time when the technology was not as good as it is now and that over the 30 hours, the occasional glitch pales into insignificance.

I've collected other hockey DVD's from other teams as well - notably the Red Wings original six series - and it's great we get packages like this. More please!

Let's Go Rangers! (2007-02-18)
As a Rangers fan, how can you not like this? My only complaint is that the MSG broadcast was used for Game 7 of the Finals as opposed to the ESPN broadcast with Gary Thorne.