A List Of Ten Rangers Oddities Over The Years

1. Before becoming Rangers captain, Don (Bones) Raleigh played for the Brooklyn Crescents in the Eastern Hockey League, 1944-45.

2. The Crescents played only one season at their home, The Brooklyn Ice Palace, on Atlantic Avenue between Bedford and Nostrand Avenues. Seating capacity, 2,000.

3. After Bones became a Ranger he moved to Staten Island and – en route to The Garden – Don wrote poems on the ferry to Manhattan.

4. Barney Kremenko, covering the Rangers for Hearst's NY Journal-American, gave Don his nickname after winning a lot of money on a long shot at Belmont. The horse was "Bag Of Bones," and after collecting his dough, Kremenko covered the Rangers that night.

5. Raleigh had a big game so Barney wrote his story and trimmed "Bag Of Bones" to "Bones" so that it was easier to fit in headlines.

6. Original Ranger (1926) Myles J. Lane was offered to Boston in a trade for Bruins ace Eddie Shore. B's GM Art Ross answered the offer with a telegram: 'YOU ARE SO MANY MYLES FROM SHORE YOU NEED A LIFE PRESERVER!"

7. Composer J. Fred Coots, who wrote "The Rangers Victory Song," is better known for having a big hit in 1940, "Love Letters In The Sand."

8. MGM had a hockey movie in the works during the late 1930's in which Rangers center Phil Watson had a part. (Clark Gable was to be the star.) Unfortunately, Watson never made it to the screen as MGM cancelled the flick in production.

9. When the old – or third – Garden opened in 1925, architects discovered that they had forgotten one important thing – a box office.

10. The first three of the four Rangers Stanley Cups were won on the road because in the old days, the circus had top priority at old MSG and forced out the Rangers.