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A fine Mess: Reviewing the 1991 sale of Mark Messier to the New York Rangers, and the bizarre sequence of transactions between the two squads.

November 20, 1980 was a Thursday of course, it being exactly one "solar cycle" ago (28 years = 7 leap cycles). It seems like a long time ago but what goes around comes around; there are some...