The New York Rangers' training camp in Saskatoon, Sask. was a dismal place last fall. Every hockey player there had read in the papers that his team was a cinch for the National Hockey League cellar. They were all resigned to their fateuntil their new coach, former Ranger Center Phil Watson, started giving them the needle. "Last place?" snarled the fiery Canadian. "Why, I never finished last in anything in my lifenot even in a poker game. Last season the rest of the league scored 210 goals against the Rangers while the Rangers made a lousy 150. This year we're going...
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