member_of_sports_team michel archambault
A team ___MASK97___ includes any ___MASK97___ which involves two or more players working together towards a shared objective . A team ___MASK97___ is an activity in which individuals are organized into opposing teams which compete to win . Examples are basketball , volleyball , water polo , handball , lacrosse , cricket , baseball , and the various forms of football and hockey . The Drummondville Rangers were a junior ice hockey team that played in Drummondville , Quebec . They originally played in the Quebec Junior Hockey League , but became a founding member of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League in 1969 . They were originally affiliated with the ___MASK50___ . They played at the Drummondville Civic Centre . The Rangers folded in 1974 . Ice hockey is a contact team ___MASK97___ played on ice , usually in a rink , in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent ' s net to score points . Ice hockey teams usually consist of six players each : one goaltender , and five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team . The ___MASK50___ are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City . They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ). The team plays its home games at Madison Square Garden , located in the borough of Manhattan . The Rangers are one of three NHL franchises in the New York metropolitan area , along with the ___MASK47___ and New York Islanders . The club is also one of the oldest teams in the NHL , having joined in 1926 as an expansion franchise . They are part of the group of teams referred to as the Original Six , along with the ___MASK3___ , ___MASK78___ , Detroit Red Wings , Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs . The Rangers were the first NHL franchise in the United States to win the Stanley Cup , which they have done four times , most recently in 1993  94 . History . Early years . George Lewis " Tex " Rickard , president of Madison Square Garden , was awarded an NHL franchise for the 1926  27 season to compete with the now - defunct New York Americans , who had begun play at the Garden the previous season . The Americans ( also known as the " Amerks ") proved to be an even greater success than expected during their inaugural season , leading Rickard to pursue a second team for the Garden despite promising the Amerks that they would be the only hockey team to play there . The new team was quickly nicknamed " Tex ' s Rangers ". Rickard ' s franchise began play in the 1926  27 season . The first team crest was a horse sketched in blue carrying a cowboy waving a hockey stick aloft , before being changed to the familiar R - A - N - G - E - R - S in diagonal . Rickard managed to get future legendary Toronto Maple Leafs owner Conn Smythe to assemble the team . However , Smythe had a falling - out with Rickard ' s hockey man , Col . John S . Hammond , and was fired as manager - coach on the eve of the first season  he was paid a then - hefty $ 2 , 500 to leave . Smythe was replaced by Pacific Coast Hockey Association co - founder Lester Patrick . The new team Smythe assembled turned out to be a winner . The Rangers won the American Division title their first year but lost to the ___MASK3___ in the playoffs . The ___MASK8___ are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver , Colorado . They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ). The Avalanche are the only team in their division not based in the Central Time Zone ; the team is situated in the Mountain Time Zone . Their home arena is Pepsi Center . Their general manager is Joe Sakic . Michel Joseph Archambault ( born September 27 , 1950 in Saint - Hyacinthe , Quebec ) was a Canadian ice hockey left wing . He began his major junior career with the Quebec Junior Hockey League Drummondville Rangers in 1969 . He spent most of his career with the ___MASK25___ , with one year with the ___MASK13___ of the World Hockey Association and one year with the Maine Nordiques of the North American Hockey League . He also played three games for the Chicago Black Hawks during the 1976 -- 77 NHL season . Archambault spent one year as an assistant coach for the St . Hyacinthe Lasers of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League in the 1990s . The ___MASK13___ ( pronounced in Quebec French , in Canadian English ; literally translated " Quebec City Northmen " or " Northerners ") were a Canadian professional ice hockey team based in Quebec City , Quebec . The Nordiques played in the World Hockey Association ( 1972  79 ) and the National Hockey League ( 1979  95 ). The franchise was relocated to Denver , Colorado , in 1995 , and renamed the Colorado Avalanche . The ___MASK25___ were a minor - league professional ice hockey team in Dallas , Texas . They were a member of the Central Hockey League and played home games at State Fair Coliseum .