One day before Mark Messier scored his hat trick 23 years ago, three goals that pulled the New York Rangers off the mat and willed them to a win that for half the game looked like an impossibility, he ...

This story is part of a series counting down the 40 greatest comebacks in sports. May 24, 1994 On the day he promised victory, Mark Messier stopped for breakfast at the On The Way Cafe, a new brunch ...

May 25, 1994. The New Jersey Devils are leading the conference finals series 3-2 against the New York Rangers. The Rangers haven’t won Lord Stanley’s Cup since the 1939-40 season. The Devils have ...

It’s May 25, 1994, exactly 20 years ago on Sunday, and Mark Messier and Brian Leetch are driving to work out up the West Side Highway. Leetch has The Post in his lap, and a 120-point headline is ...

It would become one of the most iconic statements ever made in hockey. Thirty years ago, such news wasn't delivered by social media or push alert, but the old-fashioned way: newspaper. That's how Nick ...

in a 4-2 victory at Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Messier tells reporters the Rangers, down 3-2 in the best-of-7 series, will force a Game 7. His words are splashed on the front ...

Mark Messier guaranteed a New York Ranger victory yesterday. "We know we are going to go in there and win Game 6 and bring it back to the Garden," the Rangers captain said as his team faced ...

Mark Messier made a guarantee 20 years ago. Maybe you’ve heard of it. Entering a do-or-die Eastern Conference Finals Game 6 at Meadowlands Arena against the New Jersey Devils, the captain promised his ...