The 1940 Stanley Cup champ Rangers had a top forward unit called “The Bread Line.” It featured Hall of Fame center Neil Colville; his brother Mac on left wing and Alex Shibicky on the other side.<\/p>\n
Neil averaged better than 35 points a season for six years as the balance wheel of the unit before he entered the Canadian armed forces in 1942.<\/p>\n
Advertisement<\/p>\n
Following the end of World War II, Neil no longer had the speed to play up front so the silver-haired star switched to defense and became one of the NHL’s foremost blue liners.<\/p>\n
Then it was time for Colville to retire as a Player and become the poor fellow behind the bench.<\/p>\n
Alas and alack, not so hot was Neil as a Rangers coach at the start of the 1950’s. He missed the playoffs and that was that \u2013 he was shown the gate.<\/p>\n
(Well, you can’t excel forever at every position, can you? Poor Neil Colville, could not!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 1940 Stanley Cup champ Rangers had a top forward unit called “The Bread Line.” It featured Hall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[55420,55419,5,8455,55418,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-456394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-alex-shibicky","9":"tag-bread-line","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-journal-news","12":"tag-neil-colville","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-rangers","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkrangers","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-rangers","19":"tag-stanley-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116061147317200825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}