I say the Islanders will go farther than the blue shirts,only because we have younger legs.If we can eliminate some of the man hours lost to injury we'll do fine for a young club.

If you are asking about our allegiances in general, I would have to say Rangers all the way for several reasons:
1) The History of the Rangers as a founding team in the NHL
2) The love that the blue-collar man from the outer-boroughs has historically had for the Rangers
3) The years (1970's) when the Rangers and Flyers had those remarkable games/fights, and, as a bonus, when you saw the Flyer's send out Dave Schultz onto the ice, you KNEW he was out to take a head, not play hockey. The electricity from those games still courses in my veins when I think of Schultz and the Flyers, with their black uniforms and all. And when the Rangers had the players that we LOVED including Ron Greschner, Espo, Duguay, Giacomon.

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I also grew up a Ranger fan and remember the blueshirts playing the broadstreet bullies.Then I got married and moved to the Island and along came the Islanders.They also gave the broadstreet bullies a good fight.Clark Gilles and dave shultz had a couple of go arounds.Then came the 4 cups and i was hooked.Nowadays it kind of hurts,but thats life as they say.We'll be back soon.