How New York Rangers Milestones is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

25 of the 25 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

Franchise founded Tex Rickard's Broadway club joins the NHL for its first season
Won their first Stanley Cup In just their second season, coach Lester Patrick famously suited up in net during the Final
Won a second Stanley Cup Their second title in five years, beating Toronto in the Final
Won a third Stanley Cup The last title before a long championship drought would begin
Finished first overall Topped the regular-season standings during the World War II years
Lost a double-overtime Game 7 Fell to Detroit in the Final on a sudden-death goal
Current Madison Square Garden opens The fourth Garden, built atop Penn Station, opens its doors
Reached the Final behind the GAG Line The Goal-A-Game line couldn't stop Bobby Orr's Bruins in the Final
Rod Gilbert's #7 retired The first number ever raised to the Garden rafters
Ed Giacomin's #1 retired The beloved goaltender's number goes up a decade after Gilbert's
Acquired Mark Messier The captain arrives in a blockbuster trade from Edmonton
1994 — ended the 54-year drought Messier's guarantee and a Game 7 win over Vancouver end the wait
Signed Wayne Gretzky The Great One comes to Broadway to chase one more Cup
Gretzky's final NHL game The Great One plays his last game, at the Garden
Mike Richter's #35 retired The 1994 championship goaltender's number is raised
Henrik Lundqvist debuts A seventh-round pick from 2000 takes over in goal
Mark Messier's #11 retired The captain's number joins the rafters
Brian Leetch's #2 retired The Norris-winning defenseman's number is honored
Adam Graves's #9 retired The fan-favorite winger from the 1994 Cup team is honored
Reached the Final again Fell to the Los Angeles Kings, their first Final appearance since 1994
Won the Presidents' Trophy Finished with the NHL's best regular-season record
Jean Ratelle's #19 retired The GAG Line center's number is raised
Drafted Alexis Lafreniere first overall Landed the top pick in the pandemic-delayed lottery
Henrik Lundqvist's #30 retired The King's number joins the rafters after his career ends
Won the Presidents' Trophy again Topped the league standings for the first time since 2015