With the Rangers two wins from the Stanley Cup Final, legendary announcer Sam Rosen spoke with joedelessio about why the team is getting better as they go and the calls he knows he nailed
Filip Chytil in game three of the NHL’s Eastern Conference Final on Sunday. Photo: Andrew Bershaw/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The venerable broadcaster Sam Rosen has been calling New York Rangers games on the MSG Network since 1984. But because national channels now televise all playoff games after the first round, he’d long been relegated to a role on the network’s pre- and postgame shows if the team went on a major postseason run. This was “unsatisfying,” he says.
It feels like the Rangers are hitting their stride at the right time. They weren’t playing their best hockey when they went down 3-1 to Pittsburgh at the beginning of the playoffs, but they’ve generally gotten better as the postseason has gone on. What are they doing now that they weren’t doing before?
I don’t think it was what they were doing. More so it was what Tampa was doing. Someone texted me about the Rangers giving up the lead and letting the game get away. And I texted back and said, “This is not a game in February against the Ottawa Senators. This is a game against the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions. And they’re not going quietly.
When you have a big call like the Artemi Panarin game-seven overtime winner against Pittsburgh, one that gets spread around and played over and over again, how much does it get back to you that fans love it? The one that sticks out to me was the 2020 game when Mika Zibanejad scored five goals against Washington. There was tremendous excitement in the building. Alex Ovechkin had scored a couple of goals. Mika just kept filling up the net, and then he scored the overtime winner. And I felt I was right on that call. I really was happy with that and pleased with that and got very good fan reaction from that as well. That was a very special game by a special player.
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