OK, my apologies for this being exactly what Kevin DeLury posted a few hours ago, but I couldn't not repost this.
Apparently Andrew Gross was interviewing various Rangers today about the Rangers-Islanders rivalry, in anticipation of tomorrow night's game. Of the rivalry, Ryan McDonagh said "It's easy to see it's New York teams, but I don't know the history." So Gross pressed on and asked about the "Potvin Sucks!" chant (one of my favorite Ranger traditions). McD said that he heard it every night, but didn't know what it meant. He said he "figured it had something to do with the goaltender."
So Gross went on to set McDonagh straight on which Potvin sucks and why, going back to Potvin's big hit on Ulf Nilsson on February 25, 1979, which many credit with commencing the chant for the first time. In his piece, Gross goes on to point out that this hit occurred almost ten and a half years before Ryan McDonagh was born.
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