Great expectations for Rangers as new season approaches

BY MICHAEL OBERNAUER DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Thursday, October 9th 2008, 9:55 PM Klamar/Getty The Rangers hope to be celebrating more at the end of the 2008-09 season. At this time last year, the Rangers opened their season at Madison Square Garden to a booming ovation welcoming two top-flight (and top-dollar) additions, hopes - no, expectations - swirling about the building. Befitting the moment, Drury - in his first game at the Garden since burying the Rangers in the playoffs a few months before - scored the game-winning goal, the Rangers beat Florida, and all was peachy on Broadway. So peachy, in fact, that by the third period, the Garden reverberated with chants of "We want the Cup!" Whatever script lies in store at the Garden Friday night, Act I already has shaped up much differently, and has tossed the hockey pundits... [read full story]