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The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York, New York,
U.S.A. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National
Hockey League (NHL). Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one
of the oldest teams in the NHL, and are part of the group of teams referred to as the Original
Six. The Rangers have won the Stanley Cup four times.
In only their second season, the Rangers won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Montreal
Maroons three games to two.
n 1925, the New York Americans joined the National Hockey League, playing in Madison
Square Garden. The Amerks proved to be an even greater success than expected, leading
Garden president Tex Rickard to go after a team for the Garden despite promising the
Amerks that they would be the only hockey team to play there.
Rickard was granted a franchise, which he originally planned to name the New York Giants.
However, the New York press soon nicknamed his team "Tex's Rangers", and the new name
stuck.
