Unless you're one of the 17,500 people lucky enough to have tickets for that Friday evening, there was no way to see it, to be there when the pack fell at 9am, when the last great great inside New York sports rivalry was born.
Maybe you were one of the alternate lucky people whose houses were wired for HBO, so you also had an MSG network in that early stage. Most of them didn't know such a person. So when the Islanders faced the Rangers in Game 3 of the reserve round of the 1975 NHL playoffs, it was a call to WMCA Radio, Dom Valentino and Bob Lawrence.
It was April 11, 1975. Friday 50 years ago.
It was your own imagination that put together the pieces at about 11:30 and 11:30 at bedtime, just after the islanders managed to blow the lead in the 3-0 third season.
