Welcome to NHL99, The Athletic’s countdown of the best 100 players in modern NHL history. We’re ranking 100 players but calling it 99 because we all know who’s No. 1 — it’s the 99 spots behind No. 99 ...

Brian Leetch, here scoring in Game Seven of the 1994 Stanley cup finals, showed true class and character in helping children who lost parents on 9/11. Hockey fans in general, and New York Ranger fans ...

One victory. One more triumph over the Vancouver Canucks tonight at Madison Square Garden, and the New York Rangers would never have to hear the chant "Nineteeeeeen Foooorty" ever again. The dreaded ...

Brian Leetch’s first standing ovation began long before he graced the ice. Fittingly, before hitting the red carpet covering the Garden sheet, Leetch made a detour into the old locker room, to say hi ...

The Rangers are one of the oldest franchises in the NHL. The New York is one of the league's Original Six members, operating since 1926. One would think with that kind of longevity, the Rangers would ...

When Adam Graves bumps into Mark Messier, Mike Richter, Brian Leetch or any member of the 1994 Rangers team, he greets them with a smile and a laugh, as if not one day has passed since the group ...

When 5-year-old Brian Leetch first stepped onto the ice at the Cheshire rink run by his father, he was hooked. It was 1973 and a love of hockey was born. “At that point you never think about where it ...