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March 26, 2008 4:44 pm

I’ve always thought there were three types of people that went to Rangers games: bankers blowing their stock bonuses on season tickets, drunken die-hard sports fans, and fake-blonde coeds willing to tug on their tube tops for a free pint of Bud Light at the concession stand. Well, guess what, sports fans? I was wrong. At Tuesday night’s Madison Square Garden Rangers game, there were some pretty unconventional Rangerettes: first-time live viewers André Leon Talley (the only man within spitting distance sporting a crocodile trench), Byrdie Bell, and first daughter Barbara Bush, as well as such chic fans as Kim Cattrall, Catherine Keener, May Andersen, and Amy Sacco. “That was one of the more fun Tuesday evenings I’ve had in a while, even if we didn’t win,” Bush said after a disappointing loss in overtime to the Philadelphia Flyers. Bell, a former ice hockey player herself (yes, she played as a young girl with the boys in Connecticut), admitted she was hooked. “I really got into that,” she sighed. “I think I’m coming back for the playoffs. If I get a jersey, that is.” Later, at Bette, Sacco’s Chelsea eatery cum unofficial after-game hot spot/watering hole/makeshift green room, Ranger studs Sean Avery and Brendan Shanahan bandaged their wounds, talked shop, and promised their new fans official gear for their next hockey experience. They’d have given them the jerseys off their backs, but by then numbers 16 and 14 had changed into a dapper Dior Homme bow tie and three-piece Tom Ford suit, respectively. “These are some handsome men,” Bush declared.
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