Maximus
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I've watched a lot of old games on that channel. My favorite is game 5 of the '79 series. Hedberg scoring late to beat the Islanders at the Coliseum. I listened to that game on the radio in my sister's room on her "hi-fi." The one down side is it's the Islanders broadcast and Stan Fischler is basically rooting on the air.
You are right in that it's Tim Ryan and Stan Fischler doing the announcing of the highlights of the game. I belive it was the National feed of Game 5 of the '79 Rangers-Islander series which to this day is in my top 5 of favorite Rangers games ever.
What you can do tho is go to Youtube and type in the search box "1979 Islander-Ranger series-All the goals". Some guy put together about a 50 minute video masterpiece and what's really cool about it, it has the Rangers announcing crew of Jim Gordon and Bill Chadwick calling the action. Jim Gordon btw was a freaking great announcer. Made games so exciting. And the Big Whistle, his analysis was always spot on and he could make you laugh at times as well.
If you don't want to watch the whole video, you can skip to the 28 minute mark which is where Gordon and the Big Whistle start doing their pre game talking about Game 5 and how important it is. The guy who put the video together has all the goals and all the great saves and it last about 10 minutes or so. The audio is great as well and so I guarantee it will be worth your time and anyone else who didn't know about this and/or you want to know how exciting 1979 was for us Ranger fans who are around at that time. It was such a fun playoff run and beating the Islanders...it was as good as beating the Devils in '94 on the way to the Cup.