Gaborik Joins List of Rangers Elite with More to Come

Marian Gaborik is enjoying only his third year as a member of the New York Rangers organization, but already he is a name that will forever be recognized in Blueshirt history.  Gaborik’s breakaway goal on Tim Thomas in the first period of Sunday’s tilt with the Boston Bruins at Madison Square Garden, as you know, was the Slovak Sniper’s 40th of the 2011-12 season. Anyone who can net forty in today’s NHL is considered ‘elite’, but there’s something more to this self achievement by Marian than just becoming top three in the League in goals scored for the year.  For starters, this is the second time in three seasons with the Rangers that Gaborik has reached the 40-goal mark. With that, he becomes only the third player in franchise history to score 40 more than once for the team. The other two? Oh, just guys by the name of Jean Ratelle and Mike Gartner. Take that a step further and you’ll find out that Gabby has now reached 40 goals three times in his career. We’ve seen goal scori...