Harry Howell and Andy Bathgate number retirements just starting

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Check the 770's in channels and you may find it if you don't already have NHL Center Ice. Free preview this weekend which should mean you can watch this ceremony should you wanna see old time hockey paid tribute to...

Edited February 22, 2009 by Jersey Wing

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Check the 770's in channels and you may find it if you don't already have NHL Center Ice. Free preview this weekend which should mean you can watch this ceremony should you wanna see old time hockey paid tribute to...

Speaking of old time hockey, the Orginal Six is in the house at MSG tonight, representing the Red Wings is Red Kelly, representing the Canadiens Dick Duff, from Toronto is Frank Mahovolich, and from the Blackhawks Stan Mikita.

A nice touch...

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If anyone knows why Adam Graves' ceremony, for his retirement of #9, came before tonight's for Andy Bathgate, pleases share.

Taken from NHL dot com:

Howell and Bathgate.

I knew that this had happened with Detroit; games with the Rangers were played at a "neutral" site: Maple Leaf Gardens. But this part of it, I didn't know:

Howell and Bathgate told rollicking stories for more than an hour about a very different NHL that existed more than 50 years ago when they were young, stressing the inherent imbalance in the League, where the Detroit Red Wings' owner also owned the Rangers' building and scheduled the circus into Madison Square Garden each year at the exact time the Stanley Cup Playoffs were being held. If the Rangers made the playoffs -- and they rarely did, making it just four times for a total of 22 games in Bathgate's tenure -- they had to play at another NHL building.

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...where the Detroit Red Wings' owner also owned the Rangers' building and scheduled the circus into Madison Square Garden each year at the exact time the Stanley Cup Playoffs were being held.

This situation has happend twice in franchise history:

1) 1936-37: a best-of-five series, the first game was played in New York, the last 4 games

were played in Detroit and

2) 1949-50: a best-of-seven series, game one at home, game two and three played at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens and the last four games played in Detroit. Game seven of this series saw Detroit's Pete Babando score on Charlie Rayner in the second overtime, the first time the Stanley Cup was decided in a game seven in overtime in League history and the Club's fourth Cup win.

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does charter have the free weekend too? (sorry,a bit off topic)