Question: Along with the New York Islanders and the New York Rangers, which other NHL franchise is popular in the New York metropolitan area?

Context articles: Alex Anthony
New York Islanders
New York Rangers
Spencer Ross
Sports in New York (state)
List of New York Rangers head coaches
John Vanbiesbrouck
1974–75 New York Islanders season
Islanders–Rangers rivalry
List of New York Rangers general managers

Alex Anthony is best known as the Public Address announcer for Major League Baseball's New York Mets, a position he has held since 2004, first at Shea Stadium and then at Citi Field since the Mets moved there in 2009.
 He has been called the "Voice of the Mets."
 He also announced New York Jets games at Giants Stadium and New Meadowlands Stadium from 2002-2008, New York Islanders games at the Nassau Coliseum from 1995-1998, backup PA announcer for the New York Rangers 2008-2012 and currently backup PA for the New York Islanders.
 He is currently one of two game day PA announcers for the New York Jets.
 He was the announcer for the US Open Tennis Championship in 2002 and 2003.
The New York Islanders 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 Barclays Center, located in the borough of Brooklyn.
 The Islanders are one of three NHL franchises in the New York metropolitan area, along with the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers, and their fan base resides primarily on Long Island.
The New York Rangers 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 New Jersey Devils 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 Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, 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.
Spencer Ross is an American sportscaster.
 With the exception of the New York Mets, Ross has called play-by-play for every professional New York metropolitan area sports franchise, including the Yankees of MLB, the Nets and Knicks of the NBA, and Jets and Giants of the NFL.
 He has also called games for the Americans of the ABA and, in the NHL, for the New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders and the New York Rangers.
 Outside of New York, he has called games for the Florida State Seminoles and Boston Celtics.
 Nationally, he has worked for the "NFL on NBC", "Major League Baseball on CBS Radio", the NCAA Basketball Tournament on Westwood One Radio and as the lead play by play announcer for the 1992 USA Olympic Dream Team with Dick Vitale.
New York has two Major League Baseball teams, the New York Yankees (based in the Bronx) and the New York Mets (based in Queens).
 New York is home to three National Hockey League franchises: the New York Rangers in Manhattan, the New York Islanders in Brooklyn and the Buffalo Sabres in Buffalo.
 New York has two National Basketball Association teams, the New York Knicks in Manhattan, and the Brooklyn Nets in Brooklyn.
 New York has one Major League Soccer team: New York City FC.
 Although the New York Red Bulls represent the New York metropolitan area they play in Red Bull Arena, located in Harrison, New Jersey.
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in Manhattan, New York.
 They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL).
 Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the oldest teams in the NHL, having joined in 1926 as an expansion franchise, and are part of the group of teams referred to as the Original Six.
 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 1994).
 The team is commonly referred to by its famous nickname, "The Broadway Blueshirts", or more commonly in New York media, as simply the "Blueshirts".
John Vanbiesbrouck (born September 4, 1963), nicknamed "the Beezer" and "VBK", is an American professional ice hockey executive and former player.
 A goaltender as a player, he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007.
 Vanbiesbrouck played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Florida Panthers, Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders, and New Jersey Devils.
 He began his career playing major junior hockey for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL).
 Following a successful season with the Greyhounds, he was drafted by the New York Rangers in the fourth round, 72nd overall, in the 1981 NHL Draft.
 After his junior career ended, he played for the Rangers minor league affiliate, the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League.
 Despite the team's near collapses due to financial concerns, Vanbiesbrouck led the Oilers to a league championship and shared the league's MVP honors.
The 1974–75 New York Islanders season was the third season for the franchise in the National Hockey League.
 During the regular season, the Islanders finished in third place in the Patrick Division with a 33–25–22 record and qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in the franchise's history.
 In the first round of the playoffs, New York defeated the New York Rangers in three games to advance to the Quarter-finals, where the team defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in seven games, after they had lost the first three.
 The team lost in the semi-finals to the Philadelphia Flyers in seven games.
The Islanders–Rangers rivalry, also unofficially known as the "Battle of New York", is a rivalry between the New York Islanders and New York Rangers of the National Hockey League.
 Both teams play in New York City, with the Rangers in the borough of Manhattan, and the Islanders in the borough of Brooklyn.
 They are two of the three teams that play in the New York metropolitan area, the other being the New Jersey Devils who play in Newark, New Jersey.
 The rivalry is an intra-city rivalry similar to the Mets–Yankees rivalry in Major League Baseball and join the recent Knicks–Nets rivalry and yesteryear's Dodgers–Giants rivalry as professional sports rivalries between teams based in New York City's most populous borough, Brooklyn, and the location of most of New York's corporate headquarters and shopping districts, Manhattan.
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in Manhattan, New York.
 They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL).
 Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the oldest teams in the NHL, having joined in 1926 as an expansion franchise, and are part of the group of teams referred to as the Original Six.
 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 1994).
 The team is commonly referred to by its famous nickname, "The Broadway Blueshirts", or more commonly in New York media, as simply the "Blueshirts".
 The team has had eleven general managers since their inception, not including Conn Smythe.
 Smythe built the first Rangers team but was fired prior to the start of the inaugural season.