(Ed. Note: As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we're bound to lose some friends along the journey. We've asked for these losers, gone but not forgotten, to be eulogized by the people who knew the teams best: The bloggers and fans who hated them the most. Here is Sergei Miledin of From Russia With Glove, fondly recalling the 2015-16 New York Rangers.)

BY SERGEI MILEDIN

Spring is finally here and with that comes warmer weather, longer days, seasonal allergies, and of course another fruitless playoff run by the New York Rangers. A team that prides itself on history and tradition so much so that, for whatever reason, their fan base still clings on to that 1994 Stanley Cup win as if it hasn’t been 22 years.

The NHL was a different place back then, Quebec (then Colorado) still had a team, the Ducks were still Mighty, and the Hurricanes didn’t even exist. Since then, however, all those teams have gone on and won hockey’s most coveted prize (some even twice) while the Broadway Blue Shirts have done diddly. Even those guys from across the river won three cups in nine years just one shy of the Rangers franchise total, one that predates World War freaking II.

What is it about the Rangers and never doing something right? They came so painfully close in 2014 until Alec Martinez killed the dream while simultaneously making it look like someone literally sucked the soul out of the once reliable Henrik Lundqivst.

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Then last year they were just a game shy of going back to the Final only to lose at home in Game 7, something every media outlet made sure to stuff down our throats how the Rangers NEVER lose Game 7’s at home. This time, there would be no “roadkill Lundqvist” but something much better. Sad Lundqvist. He appears almost every spring if the cameras are willing.

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There are many different forms of sad Lundqvist that predate the temper tantrum Abba-listening goalie that he has since become. There’s the “don’t look at me” following elimination in 2013.

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