NHL and NBA Notes: Rangers, Rockets Rally

In 1994 both the NHL New York Rangers and NBA Houston Rockets won the seventh game of their league’s final series at home, to win the championship.

This year each team overcame a (3-1) quarterfinal series deficit and a dire situation in a game in which they faced elimination to advance to the league semi-finals.

The Rangers not only trailed 3 games to 1 in the series but trailed the Washington Capitals (1-0) with less than two minutes to play in game 5.

However the Rangers rallied to win that game, and the next two to sink Washington (and currently lead their semi-final series vs the Tampa Bay Lightning one game to none).

The Houston Rockets faced overwhelming adversity in game 6 at Los Angeles vs the Clippers when they trailed by 19 points with less than 3 minutes remaining in the third quarter.

However, the Rockets rallied, outscoring the Clippers (51-20) the rest of the way to win game six and then won game seven at home yesterday rather easily.