{"id":146567,"date":"2025-09-16T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146567\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T04:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:30:13","slug":"one-night-summed-up-eddie-giacomins-all-encompassing-rangers-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146567\/","title":{"rendered":"One night summed up Eddie Giacomin&#8217;s all-encompassing Rangers greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most famous night of Eddie Giacomin\u2019s career happened when the Rangers icon was wearing a Red Wings uniform. If that isn\u2019t a microcosm of the tortured 100-year history of the Original Six franchise that will be celebrated throughout this centennial season, I\u2019m not quite sure what else would qualify.<\/p>\n<p>Before there was Henrik Lundqvist, there was Giacomin. Before there was Mike Richter, there was Giacomin. Before there was Igor Shesterkin, there was Giacomin.<\/p>\n<p>Before the historic trade for Mark Messier, there was the foundational trade for Giacomin just over a quarter of a century earlier that parted the Red Sea for the then-disrespected, punching-bag franchise that made the playoffs only once from 1959 through 1966 and had not won a round since 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Before video tributes, there was Nov. 2, 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most famous night of Eddie Giacomin\u2019s career happened when the Rangers icon was wearing a Red Wings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,99127,3617,575,85,2136,735],"class_list":["post-146567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ed-giacomin","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}