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Goodbye Sather?
by Paul on 03/21/10 at 08:54 AM ET
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from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,
Let’s assume, for a moment, that with eight of their final 11 games on the road, the New York Rangers will not make the playoffs.
That would mean that a Glen Sather team would have missed the post-season for the ninth time in 19 season since winning his last Stanley Cup in Edmonton.
It would also mean that a Sather-built team will have more losses than wins for the 15th time in 19 seasons.
The Hall of Fame induction of 1997 seems a long time ago now: It’s well past best-before date for Sather and it’s time to say goodbye and hello to Mark Messier and Adam Graves.
It’s time to pass the torch.
read on for more hockey talk…
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Blame Sather
by Paul on 12/14/09 at 02:03 PM ET
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from Adam Proteau of The Hockey News,
...this mess is on the man at the top – president/GM Glen Sather – and the owner (James Dolan) who continues to support him.
Let me dust off and update the rap sheet on Sather: Since he took over as GM in June of 2000, the Rangers have won 14 playoff games – and no more than six in a single post-season.
But here’s the biggest indictment of his tenure: As a result of summer after summer of spending by Sather, the team’s prospects for future improvement have been severely hampered.
Redden’s $6.5 million salary and Rozsival’s $5 million annual stipend are painful enough, but Rangers fans are well aware their favorite franchise has roughly $10 million in cap space (and 16 players signed) entering next season and roughly $19 million in cap space (and eight players signed) for the 2011-12 campaign.
Sather won’t be able to foist one of his numerous overpayments on another GM in the next off-season the way he did with Bob Gainey last summer. He has damaged the Rangers short-term and long-term, nearly to the same degree Isiah Thomas did with the NBA’s Knicks.
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Sather Bails Out Pocklington
by Paul on 03/13/09 at 10:13 PM ET
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from CBC,
Peter Pocklington, one-time owner of the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers, was expected to be released on bail Friday after the former coach of the team said he would put up the bail.
In a California courtroom, Glen Sather put up $1 million piece of property as security to allow Pocklington to be released on bail.
Pocklington has been in jail since being arrested on bankruptcy fraud charges on Wednesday.
continued and more on this topic at TSN.
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Rangers Needed A Change
by Paul on 02/24/09 at 10:45 AM ET
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from Stan Fischler of Game On,
In a sense Glen Sather—announcing his new coach and looking to the immediate and distant Rangers future—sounded the theme of a recently-elected president.
CHANGE!
His Blueshirts needed a different personality, with a louder voice who would provide the Rangers with a go-go attacking style rather than over-worrying about goals against.
More than anything, those points explain why John Tortorella is the new head coach and Tom Renney is on a sabbatical he would not have wished on himself.
Oh yeah, and there’s also a not-so-small matter of the Rangers possibly even slipping out of a playoff berth had the Old Guard remained behind the bench.
“Over the last couple of weeks I watched the team slide,” said Sather in a far-reaching conference call, “and our game eroded. This was obvious from the last couple of games.”
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Sather Silent
by Paul on 02/16/09 at 04:30 PM ET
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from Bill Price of the NY Daily News,
Tom Renney and Chris Drury said all the right things after the Rangers did all the wrong things in Sunday’s dismal loss to the Flyers at the Garden.
“I take full responsibility for where this team is right now,” said the coach.
“I’m not doing what I was brought here to do,” said the captain.
As for the man who put this team together . . . nothing.
In case you’ve forgotten, he’s Glen Sather, the president and GM of your New York Rangers. Honestly, I can’t blame you for forgetting, because he’s nowhere to be found.
He never speaks to the New York media and he’s rarely seen at games.
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Blame Sather
by Paul on 02/11/09 at 11:09 AM ET
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from E.J. Hradek of ESPN,
Now, I’m not ready to confuse Renney with Scotty Bowman, but I think Renney has actually overachieved with this roster. That’s right—I think Renney’s 29-20-5 record is pretty good when you consider his team.
Renney doesn’t have a No.1 center or a No. 1 defenseman. He doesn’t have a reliable scorer on the wing. And his most dependable defender is just a sophomore. No, the 2008-09 Rangers aren’t exactly an All-Star group.
Of course, Renney isn’t without fault. I haven’t always agreed with his lineup decisions or in-game moves, and he’s got to find a way to make that power-play unit at least a little better.
Still, Renney shouldn’t be the fall guy.
The real problem is Renney’s boss, Rangers president and GM Glen Sather. If anyone is going to get canned, it should be Sather.
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Cat & Mouse Games with Jagr
by Alanah McGinley on 06/17/08 at 10:21 AM ET
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From John Dellapina at The Blueshirts Blog,
Jagr told me again today that he hasn’t heard anything from Rangers GM Glen Sather since they spoke on the day the team broke up for the season. While such a cat-and-mouse act is long-standing standard operating procedure for Sather, it makes little sense in this case.
Not only can Jagr sign with Omsk-Avangard at any time, there seems to be little to be gained by making him sit and wonder whether the Rangers want him back. His personal experience (see: Washington 2000-2004) is that things don’t go well when he’s playing for a team that doesn’t fully believe in him. And every day that goes by without the Rangers reaching out to him has to make him wonder even more.
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Glen Sather In No Hurry To Leave Hockey
by Paul on 01/05/08 at 09:54 AM ET
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from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal,
He’s not hale and hearty because his club has only won seven of the last 21, but the pieces are there. Frankly, he looked older than his years a few seasons back with an old, overpaid, under-achieving bunch. Now, it’s not a chore going to work, and he has no interest in stepping aside. He’s on a year-to-year contract now, after his five-year package ran out. He’s in no hurry to quit.
“Where else can you have this much fun? I’m still young. Fifty-three is young,” said Sather, playfully knocking 11 years off his real birth certificate, just a few minutes before a youngster at the rink asks for an autograph in Total Hockey.
“The whole book, or just this page,” kidded Sather, as he scrawls his signature on his playing stats, which aren’t quite as glittering as his coaching numbers.
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Last Year For Sather?
by Paul on 10/02/07 at 11:09 AM ET
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via William Houston of the Globe and Mail,
According to hockey insiders, Glen Sather turned down a five-year contract extension with the New York Rangers during the summer, leading to speculation this will be last season as president and general manager of the club.
NHL watchers would view his departure as the end of era, and also beginning of a new era in which recently retired players such as Mark Messier and Scott Mellanby would begin moving into top management positions.
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