Before this afternoon, I had never heard of Alf Pike, a key member of the New York Rangers 1940 Stanley Cup-winning team, the last Rangers team to win the Stanley Cup before Mark Messier's ice squad recaptured Lord Stanley's Cup 54 years later, in 1994. After reading Pike's obituary, though, I wish he had popped up on my radar years ago, for two reasons: 1.) he reportedly predicted, in between periods, that he and his teammate, Bryan Hextall, would score the tying and winning goals, respectively, against the Boston Bruins in the decisive Game 6 of the 1940 final; and 2.) he was nicknamed the Embalmer because of his off-season job at a funeral home, which I just find wonderful on so many levels.
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