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Redden A Target In New York
by Paul on 03/22/09 at 10:45 AM ET
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from Doug Fischer of the Ottawa Citizen,
By the time he arrived in New York last fall, however, Redden was only a shadow of that player. Everyone has a theory about why. The most popular suggests he’s never trained hard enough, relying instead on skills that eroded rapidly with age.
Whatever the reason, New Yorkers weren’t interested in anything except results. There is nothing they love more than a sports hero except, perhaps, the chance to excoriate a well-paid sports hero who is underachieving.
And that was Redden, whose Rangers play the Senators in New York tonight....
So when the team began to sputter in late November and New Yorkers went looking for a target, Redden was an easy bull’s-eye.
Led by (Larry) Brooks, said to be the most-read hockey writer in New York, the media began almost to delight in cataloguing his errors. By Feb. 15, and without a goal in 57 games, Redden was being referred to on radio and in print as GSF—Glen Sather’s Folly, Brooks’ shot at the general manager who signed him.
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senshobo - don’t forget the DiPietro deal. Between contracts and trades (Luongo, Berard, Bertuzzi, McCabe etc) Milbury is in a class of his own. That’s obviously why his opinions are so well respected on TV in two countries.
Posted by mc keeper from The Home Of Lord Stan on 03/22/09 at 12:54 PM ET
LOL. The question is… is Sather seriously going to keep Wade Redden at that kind of money? You can’t have him eat up that much salary with such little production.
Posted by Performance Parts on 03/23/09 at 08:21 AM ET
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As bad a signing as Redden was, can it truly be called the worst in NHL history without any debate, any other suggestions? Does no one remember the mammoth deal Milbury gave to Yashin (along with the assets he gave up to acquire him), with just as much, if not more, evidence of the risks involved than those made apparent in Redden’s final Ottawa years?
Posted by SENShobo from Waterloo, ON on 03/22/09 at 11:11 AM ET