Pete Stemkowski

And, you know, it's funny, I forget which former Ranger I spoke to.

It was either Ed Jockaman or Pete Stemkowski.

And, you know, the Rangers in the beginning, when the Islanders first were in the league, the Rangers used to train at Long Beach.

So they were on the island for practice all the time.

Those were my guys.

I just had lunch with one of them yesterday, Pete Stemkowski, and I still get a kick out of that because those were my guys growing up.

And so I was starting to think about, as that third period was winding down, all right, as they get to the final seconds, how do I want to organize what I'm going to do? So there's one line came to me.

that i would use as the clock was winding down i'd let it go to three two one and then as the buzzer sounds i would simply say and now there is one more hill to climb leave it at that let the crowd take it right can't do it for very long on radio obviously and then start in with whatever else i was going to say well then zela pukin scores that stinking goal and it changes everything Now, a couple of things.

That's also, I'm really proud of that one.

I think Coach Ed did a great job interviewing Pete Stemkowski, Rangers legend.

Also Toronto Leafs legend.

He won the cup with them back in 1967.