NEW YORK — On the night when the Garden celebrated the arrival of Patrick Kane to help the Rangers go a potential Stanley Cup run, it was a vital cog in the Blueshirts’ previous run to the Final that stole the show against his former team.
Playing in his 1,000th career game, Derrick Brassard, who helped the Rangers reach the 2014 Stanley Cup Final, scored two goals to throw ice water on the Blueshirts’ warm greetings for Kane in Ottawa’s 5-3 victory.
But make no mistake, Kane, the three-time Stanley Cup winner and former Hart Trophy recipient, is here to try to help the Rangers win their first Cup in 29 years, and he’s excited to be in New York to do precisely that.
