Pro Hockey: Look Who's No. 1

PRO HOCKEY

Whom does a New York sports fan root for these days? The pro-football Giants have turned into dwarfs (see col. 2), and the Jets are strictly subsonic. The Knicks are to pro basketball what Mrs. Miller is to soul music. Baseball's onceproud Yankees are a burnt-out case: they finished tenth last year. And the Mets wound up ninth only because they play in another league with the even worse Chicago Cubs.

That leaves the Rangers—the worst team in the National Hockey League, a team that has not won the Stanley Cup since...

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