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The New York Rangers (NYR) are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York, USA. They play in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Rangers and their crosstown rivals, the New York Islanders, are both members of the NHL's Atlantic Division, guaranteeing plenty of regular season meetings. This is unique among New York City's major league sports teams; Major League Baseball's New York Yankees and New York Mets are in different leagues, as are the National Football League's New York Jets and New York Giants, giving them little opportunity to play each other. Tex Rickard was awarded an NHL franchise in 1926 to compete with the New York Americans. The team was immediately dubbed "Tex's Rangers", and the nickname stuck. (Rickard had originally incorporated the team as the New York Giants Hockey Club). Rickard managed to get future legendary Toronto Maple Leafs owner Conn Smythe to assemble the team, but Smythe had a falling-out with Rickard's hockey man, Col. John S. Hammond, and was let go in favor of Lester Patrick before the first season. The new team turned out to be a winner. The Rangers won the American Division title their first year but lost to the Boston Bruins in the playoffs. The Rangers continued to be Cup favorites in the mid-to-late 1990s, even landing an aging Wayne Gretzky, but they would fizzle out. Their 1994 stars were aging and many retired or dropped off in performance. After General Manager Neil Smith ran Messier out of town in the summer of 1997 and failed in a bid to replace him with Avalanche superstar Joe Sakic, the Rangers began a streak of seven seasons without making the playoffs. Jaromir Jagr broke the Rangers' single season points record with a first period assist in a 5-1 win against the New York Islanders on March 29, 2006. The assist gave him 110 points on the season breaking Jean Ratelle's record. Less than two weeks later on April 8th Jagr scored his 53rd goal of the season against the Boston Bruins, breaking the team record previously held by Adam Graves. Finally, on April 4 the Rangers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers in a shootout 3-2 to clinch a playoff spot for the first time since the 1996-97 season. On April 19, the Rangers lost to the Ottawa Senators 5-1 and due to wins by divison rivals New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia Flyers, the Rangers fell back to third place in the Atlantic Division to end the season. In the Eastern Conference Quarter Finals the Rangers drew a matchup with the New Jersey Devils and were defeated in a four game sweep. In the process they were outscored 17-4. In the first game of the series Jaromir Jagr suffered an undisclosed injury to his left shoulder, diminishing his usefulness as the series went on. Jagr missed game 2 of the series and was back in the lineup for game 3. He was held to 1 shot on net. On his first shift of the game in game 4, Jagr re-injured his shoulder and was unable to return.