The New York Rangers will be looking to avoid being swept by the Los Angeles Kings in the Stanley Cup Final, but one fan in attendance at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday will have something much more important than hockey on his mind.

When Bobby Ackerman purchased his baby daughter a Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist jersey, he did so in hopes that she would wear it to a Stanley Cup Final game; sadly, Madison passed away in April at four months old, just as the Rangers were getting ready for the postseason.

Ackerman told Steve Politi of The Record the Rangers' playoff run was “the only thing keeping me from thinking horrible thoughts.”

As word got out in regards to Ackerman's story, Shawn Revell - a fellow Rangers fans and administrator of a Facebook site called 'New York Rangers Memes' - resolved to do something special: “We all just said, 'We need to do something for this guy,'” said Revell. "We agreed if the Rangers made the finals, we were going to find a way to get him there.”

After the Rangers beat the Montreal Canadiens in the Eastern Conference Final, Revell set up a fund for that purpose, with enough money coming in to supply Ackerman with tickets for Game 4 on the date of the two-month anniversary of his daughter's death.

“I still can't find the words,” said Ackerman, who will bring the small Lundqvist jersey with him in memory of Madison. “I'm just your average guy who loves hockey. The hockey community is the best thing in the world. Without it, I don't know where I'd be right now.”