Word: stemkowski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, remember Pete Stemkowski? Yeah, the Kings just named him coach of the AHL Springfield Indians and he played a year for L.A., but that's not the "Stemmer" (I'll leave the Polish nicknames stuck in Bill Chadwick's "Big Whistle") we fondly remember lumbering for the Rangers when they used to wait until the semis before choking...
...almost an anti-climax when, at 1:29 of the third extra session, one tick of the clock before midnight, that Stemkowski (you do remember Pete Stemkowski, right?) popped a rebound by Esposito's achilles heel off assists by Ted Irvine and Tim Horton to keep the series, and season, alive. Of course, being the New York Rangers, they lost the deciding seventh contest in Chicago. But they still had the sixth to remember...
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