The American Nightmare
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- I’m back from vacation. It’s about time I did another video on a defunct team. Many people think of the Rangers as the first NHL team in New York. But they don’t know that another team came a year before them, known as the New York Americans.
When you look at it, the Americans were screwed over by the league and cursed with rotten luck. That bad luck would eventually spill onto their cross-town rival which forced them out.
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Excellent video as always by Penguin Note. If you’re as passionate about sports history as I am, then you definitely gotta check out Penguin Note’s videos. Awesome. 👍👍
Buffalo is not a part of the New York Metro Area, it’s just in New York State. The Sabres are literally closer to Toronto than they are to New York City…
Buffalo is NOT in the New York metropolitan area. We're close to 500 miles away from NYC.
I was enjoying this video until this point! Philadelphia is closer to NYC than Buffalo!
And then we also got a "if you count it" for the New Jersey Devils... who used to play in the same arena complex as two teams called "New York" in football before moving within 30 minutes away. We know who's not from the area LOL.
@@adamdobrowolski2510 Exactly, don't diss New Jersey. We get enough of that from the New York Rangers fans! LOL
Ironically, the New York Americans were in the Canadian conference.
They put them and the Rangers in separate divisions so fans could cheer for both teams.
They were originally the Hamilton Tigers.
Good video. I would say the very end is weird. The Devils are in the NY Metropolitan area, they're just a short train ride away from MSG. The Isles are actually further away. The Sabers are def not part of the area, as they play a good 6 hour drive from NYC.
@gakster29 I included the Sabres as in the state of New York and the NY Metro Area. Should have mentioned that
@@PenguinNote67 It's a BIG state, the New York Metro area is the area surrounding New York City. Would you include the San Jose Sharks in the same metro area as the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks?
The Devils are definitely a part of the NYC metro area. You can watch a Rangers’ matinee game after the game, go down the elevator to Penn Station, hop on a NJ Transit train, 2 stops later, get off at Newark Penn Station and walk up the street to watch the Devils’ evening game. The trip time should take no more than 45 minutes to an hour. You’ll even have time to grab a coffee, before your train.
Speaking of the Devils, when the team moved from Colorado to NJ, one of the names they seriously considered before going with the Devils, was Americans.
Why do people think Buffalo is closer to New York City than Newark, NJ? Don't we have Google?
@@BallparkHunter People from other parts of the country are surprised how easy it is to cross state lines in the Northeast. Drive for 3 hours and you can cross into 4 different states. So they think NJ must be far from NYC because it’s another state, even though it’s just across the river. And Buffalo is really far away from the city, even though it is in the same state.
@@sdeepj Now I am glad my mom forced me to read an atlas when I was a kid! My wife thinks that Cleveland and Cincinnati are next to each other.
Excellent video. I didn't know anything about the Americans. Also that picture of Barclay Center set up for hockey shows how clunky and awful it was for a game
Wait til we get to this fall and Utah HC starts play in da Delta Center
The audio clipping at 8:58 scared the hell out of me LOL
Great video though! Always love hearing more about these folded teams that we all think we know about, but usually don’t know much.
the devils are certainly part of the NYC metro area. Even philly is much closer to NYC than buffalo is
The Rock is 13 miles from MSG!
The long lost ancestor of the Rangers & Islanders, all started in the big Apple.
I knew of the NY Americans, but until this video I had no idea that they lasted as long as they did.
There was a Soccer team also called NY Americans, sadly isnt much info about it...
Do you think BUFFALO is in the New York City metropolitan area? The two cities are 373 miles apart! Buffalo is across the river from Canada! Also, why would you not count the New Jersey Devils, their arena in Newark is 13 miles from Madison Square Garden.
Screaming gets you nothing!
Let’s go rangers 🎉
@@ReidWeissberg-er3bc congratulations your team is the reason why we have the Islanders instead of the Americans
@@PenguinNote67 I would say that you are a blues fan so bad
@@ReidWeissberg-er3bc thanks for Buchnevich btw
@@PenguinNote67 I don’t care
buffalo is in the NY metropolitan area?
I blame this recent nonsense on Bills fans!
Its in New York State, but not in the namesake metro area.
Thomas Dugan who's the owner of the Boston Bruins his name sounds familiar I wonder if he's the brother the All-American Girls baseball team to Rockford peaches that Tom Hanks played in the movie League of Their Own
The character that Hanks played in A League of Their Own was fictional. He was modeled after Hall of Famers Jimmie Foxx and Hack Wilson.
The “Original” Six …. Features a team that wasn’t even the original New York Team. The Original Six branding is a total con
Especially since the original teams came in the 1910s
Dutton died in 1987.
There wouldn't be NHL another team in New York City until the Islanders were founded in 1972.
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The Islanders weren't,and AREN'T,a New York City team. While they were meant to share the New York market (really,Long Island was granted a team to make sure the World Hockey Association wouldn't succeed in NY...and it worked,as the New York Raiders were driven out),the Islanders were meant to be the team of the suburbs. Oddly enough,prior to 1972,Rangers players and their families lived on Long Island. After the Islanders arrived,the Rangers settled in Westchester,north of NYC. As for the Islanders,they're considered Long Island's team,and a prominent part of Long Island's identity,distinguishing it from the city - something Long Islanders proudly point out. NYC and Long Island are COMPLETELY different places,and both look down their noses at one another. If you want to trigger a Long Islander,call them a New Yorker,while a New Yorker looks at Long Island like it was another state. Long Island has even wanted to separate from New York State a few times. It's like saying Canadians and Americans are the same thing. Islander fans don't even call the team by its full name. It's just "the Islanders" or "the Isles". As someone from Long Island, I think it would be pretty cool,just to have a team known by its name... I mean,the Dynasty still speaks for itself,even 40 years later
@@henrymanzano2201 But they used to be in NYC for 5 years, when they moved to Brooklyn.
@@user-ds7gn8cn3k and they didn't want to be there,players or fans,and they made no effort to be part of the Brooklyn community when they were there. It was a last-ditch effort to stay in the area. They should have made an exception for Nassau Coliseum,given the history of the building,and allowed the Isles to play their entire existence there, instead of making fans commute up to 2 hours to see a game
@@henrymanzano2201 The major problem with the Barclay's Center is that it wasn't designed with hockey in mind. Look at the picture in the video. There's a balcony behind the goal on the right side of the picture. If you were in those seats, you couldn't see that goal.
I still wish the new york Americans were still a thing.
New York sports owners are lazy. We almost had MLB/NHL/NFL teams named the “Giants” and almost had all 4 sports league New York counterparts try at “Americans” it’s frankly disgusting how little effort are put into the names of the NY varsity teams. Also New York, NY is the name and address of the city so these teams do not represent the state, had the city kept its last previous name the teams would be known as the New Orange Rangers and New Orange Mets. The islanders as for representation is ambiguous, however I believe they would fall in line if the 9 other sports teams followed suit to renaming. 🫤