I'm from NYC and was there when the Rangers beat the Canucks in seven games, June 14th, 1994, NOT 1982. 1982??mikemike wrote:Well man, 30 years hence even I have my doubts, and either way I wouldn't bet my morgage on it. But here's the way I remember it:Cochese wrote:WOW! Now I'm intrigued! If your memory serves you right, this is going to be quite a revelation for some of us! Thanks for this!
The following week after I first watched the Laserdisc. I was watching the VHS version with my friends, and I was waiting with baited breath that they were going to be grossed out when it showed Fox's mangled body, and I recall being very shocked & disappointed when the scene suddenly wasn't there. So I remember that.
And the reason why I remember the Riffs/Rogues scene add-on was because I'm Canadian and at the time I thought it was cool that the Riffs were using hockey sticks as their weapons. It must have been about the same time period that the NY Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks were playing in the 1982 Stanley Cup, because just before I watched The Warriors for the first time on laserdisc I had just watched a Canadian news clip interviewing New Yorkers on the street about the Staney Cup and most of them didn't know jack about hockey. So when I saw the scene with the hockey sticks going up and down it made an impression because I remember thinking "well, I guess some people in NY sure know about hockey!"
But there must be more stuff on the laserdisk as well, because both those scenes would only account for about 12 seconds out of the 2 extra minutes of footage which is listed on the RCA Laserdisc's 94min runtime.
Your "Canadian news clip" obviously just showed random people on the street - ask random people about any topic and many of them will know "jack," just like how you got that year wrong by 12 years. NYC hockey fans are extremely 'in the know' about the game. (And we know what year we beat The Canucks.)
