New York City is to baseball as Nebraska is to corn. Hockey is a whole other matter. When the NHL decided it should probably try to place a team in New York City if it was going to successfully expand into the United States, it created the New York Americans in 1925. The Amerks were a huge success playing where they did, in Madison Square Garden. At the time, the president of the Garden was a man named George Lewis Rickard, a promoter affectionately known to virtually everyone … more