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Grading the Blueshirts on July 1
by Patrick Hoffman on 07/02/09 at 10:09 AM ET
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If I had to grade New York Rangers General Manager Glen Sather on yesterday’s performance on the first day of free-agency, I would have to give him an incomplete. Yes, he signed two players and yes, one of them has a lot of potential to succeed on Broadway but we’ve all seen Sather do stuff like this before and nothing ever come to fruition.
Signing Marian Gaborik was extremely risky. On one hand, Sather managed to sign an offensive superstar who has scored 30-or-more goals in five of his eight seasons, including a career-high 42 in the 2006-07 season. He totaled 437 points in 502 career games, all with the Minnesota Wild, and he’s just 27 years old. If these were the only things that Ranger fans knew about him, there’d be no problems and even Sather thinks that the team improved with this signing.
“Gaborik is an exciting guy to watch play,” Sather told Jim Cerny of NewYorkRangers.com. “He can skate, and he does a lot of great things. He’s a great player, and he’s young. I certainly think he’s in the top ten in this league.”
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Blogger Plays Ranger GM
by Patrick Hoffman on 06/17/09 at 11:12 AM ET
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From Puck Central:
If I’m Glen Sather, here’s what I do between now and October to have a better team for the 2009-10 NHL season.
1) Attempt to move up in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft (NYRs currently have the 19th overall pick) or trade that first round pick if it can significantly improve the Rangers offense. [Example]
2) If I’m not able to move up & choose with the 19th overall pick, I choose the best player available. Currently the Rangers need forwards because they have many defensive prospects in the system. But, making a trade in the future is always possible. In my opinion, you always choose the best player available, I don’t endorse drafting based on organizational needs for the most part. So, if the best player available is a defenseman, that’s the player that you pick. Then, down the road it’s always possible to trade that player or another defenseman in the system for a position that is needed.
3) Try to trade Redden, Drury, Gomez & Rozsival - in that particular order. All four players have contracts that are a burden to the Rangers roster and getting rid of any of the four would be a major help. The main goal is to clear salary cap room, getting something of value in return would be a bonus!
Click here for more. Certainly looks like a lot of people want to be Glen Sather these days. I wonder why?
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Time for Game 7
by Patrick Hoffman on 04/28/09 at 11:31 AM ET
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There is nothing like a Game 7 in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Both teams go all out and when all is said and done, leave it all on the ice whether they win or lose.
Tonight, the New York Rangers (seventh seed) look to upset the Washington Capitals (second seed) in Game 7 at the Verizon Center. This was a series in which the Blueshirts led 3-1 but failed miserably in Game 5 and 6, leading to tonight’s do or die match up.
Tonight is also one of the main reasons why Rangers’ general manager Glen Sather signed Chris Drury back in the summer of 2007. Back then, Drury was known for coming up big in the playoffs and scoring goals/points when the team needed them the most. If there was ever a night for Chris Drury to be Chris Drury, tonight would certainly be that night.
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Tags: Brandon+Dubinsky, Chris+Drury, Glen+Sather, Henrik+Lundqvist, Markus+Naslund, New+York+Rangers, Nik+Antropov, Nikolai+Zherdev, Ryan+Callahan, Scott+Gomez, Sean+Avery, Washington+Capitals,
What Will They Do?
by Patrick Hoffman on 03/02/09 at 10:00 PM ET
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Obviously, the question that every New York Ranger fan wants to know heading into the NHL’s March 4th trade deadline is what are they going to do?
Will they clear roster spots? Well, I think they will because it appears that since the team will try and claim Sean Avery off re-entry waivers, they will need to clear some cap space. This afternoon, the team sent newly acquired Mark Bell down to it’s farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack.
Will they trade Scott Gomez or Chris Drury? Well, unlike a well known rumor monger, I don’t think they will. General Manager Glen Sather signed these two guys to long-term deals in the summer of 2007 in hopes that they would produce and lead this team to a Stanley Cup. While they haven’t lived up to their billing, I believe that they will get their act together and perform for their new head coach John Tortorella, who expects nothing less.
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Tags: Chris+Drury, Chris+Pronger, Glen+Sather, Hartford+Wolf+Pack, Illya+Kovalchuk, Jay+Bouwmeester, John+Tortorella, Mark+Bell, New+York+Rangers, Nigel+Dawes, Petr+Prucha, Scott+Gomez, Sean+Avery,
Sather Speaks!
by Patrick Hoffman on 02/24/09 at 10:50 AM ET
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For a great look at what New York Rangers General Manager Glen Sather had to say about the firing of Tom Renney and the hiring of John Tortorella, I would suggest reading Rick Carpiniello’s Rangers Report blogs here and here.
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Wishing the Rangers Had a GM Like This
by Patrick Hoffman on 02/17/09 at 03:50 PM ET
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Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo Puck Daddy made reference to Rich Hammond’s excellent Los Angeles Kings blog today.
Why does this matter? Well, it matters because it shows New York Ranger fans that Kings’ General Manager Dean Lombardi is everything that Glen Sather isn’t.
Click here to find out why.
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An Interview with a Rangers Blogger
by Patrick Hoffman on 12/28/08 at 10:57 PM ET
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Since I’m sure all you die hard New York Ranger fans know what happened last night and know what this team needs to do to be better on a consistent basis, I figured I’d forget about talking about last night’s debacle against the New Jersey Devils and instead post an interview I did with a Rangers Blogger: Scotty Hockey.
Scotty was kind of enough to take time during this holiday season to tell us how he fell in love with the game and the Rangers, how he got into writing/blogging about hockey, what the future of hockey blogging will bring and of course, his outlook on the Blueshirts.
Enjoy and remember to visit Scotty Hockey for thoughts and opinions on the Broadway Blueshirts.
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A Brand New Day
by Patrick Hoffman on 12/26/08 at 04:00 PM ET
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First off, I hope you all had a happy and safe holiday, especially you New York Ranger fans out there who were looking to shake off Tuesday night’s terrible loss to the Washington Capitals.
Tomorrow night’s game against the New Jersey Devils should be looked at as a fresh start for the Rangers. Again, they’re coming off a terrible collapse against the Caps’ and have displayed rather inconsistent hockey over the past month or so.
So what better way to shake off the cob webs and play the best hockey they can play than by beating their Hudson River rivals?
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Tags: Andrew+Gross, Blue+Notes, Blueshirt+Bulletin, Chris+Drury, Dubi+Silverstein, Eastern+Conference, Glen+Sather, Henrik+Lundqvist, New+Jersey+Devils, New+York+Rangers, Philadelphia+Flyers, Ranger+Rants, Rangers+Report, Sam+Weinman, Scott+Gomez, SNY+Rangers+Blog, Steve+Zipay, Washington+Capitals,
Intrigued
by Patrick Hoffman on 12/15/08 at 09:30 PM ET
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I know that many of you New York Ranger fans out there were certainly intrigued by reports that Mats Sundin had selected the Blueshirts as the team he wanted to play for this season.
However, Sam Weinman, Rangers’ beat writer for The Journal News, reported that Sundin’s agent, J.P. Barry, said in an e-mail that the big Swede has yet to make a decision but at the same time, noted that the Blueshirts have expressed their interest.
The plot thickens folks. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of days because it’s a rematch of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals for Mats: the New York Rangers vs. the Vancouver Canucks, who already offered him a two-year deal worth $20 million.
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Is He Worth It?
by Patrick Hoffman on 12/11/08 at 03:45 PM ET
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As I’m sure all of you New York Ranger fans are now aware, Rangers’ GM Glen Sather will be sitting down with Mats Sundin on Saturday.
I want to hear your thoughts on the following items:
- Would Sundin be worth it to the Rangers?
- Who would you be willing to give up to sign Sundin?
- Do you think he’d sign for two years?
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Chris Drury: New Leader of the Red, White and Blue?
by Patrick Hoffman on 09/21/08 at 06:00 PM ET
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The Jaromir Jagr era is over on Broadway which leaves a very valuable and respected position open in the organization: the team captaincy.
For the past three seasons, Jagr did everything he could to make the Blueshirts a better hockey team better. He scored a lot of points (290), played well in the Stanley Cup playoffs (27 points in 23 games), and he said all the right things about the team to reporters whether they won or lost. However, the time has come for a new player to step up and lead this team to hockey’s promised land and that guy should be Chris Drury.
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