New York City Media vs. Glenn Sather

[Steve J. Rogers 0]

Okay, here is probably the biggest hockey story this season in NY, the distengration of Glenn Sather's relationship with the media and the further tarnishing of his legend

 

Basically the media feels that Glenn is pissing away his legend and that his "houlier than thou" act should have had him axed long ago.

 

Couple of cases in point from this year

 

1) Glenn feels the need not to talk to anyone involved with the NYC media because he feels he has forgotten more hockey than he knows, yet he freely pops on (without much notice given to the Rangers press relations department) Canadian radio stations ripping New York's media and fans, and just recently even ripped his boss James Dolan! Only problem is, Dolan loves Sather so much he will never fire him (apparantly Sather was nice to him when Dolan was growing up hanging around a NY suburb's training facility or something) In fact, it was SATHER that decided to step down as coach, not the other way around

 

and

 

2) The NY media can't get over the fact that Sather constantly ripped Neil Smith for not winning despite a bloated payroll. Yes Smith did a horrid job in the last few years of his tenure, but he did win a cup and finished with the best record in hockey couple of times, and Glenn "Any one can win with NY's payroll" Sather hasn't even made the PLAYOFFS!"

 

So, A) is Sather just a lucky bastard because he had a boatload of bona-fide first ballot HOFers on his Cup winning teams? (Note the fact also that Messier has 2 cups to Gretzky's none since the trade of Gretz and maybe THERE is your answer) or

 

B) is the Ranger situation just so horribly out of control (bad decisions, bad contracts, injuries, general dislike by the rest of the league, ect) that the "anyone can win there" comment was just an uneducated one (didn't realize how bad the situation was)

 

Steve

[Dr. Tom 0]

I think it's parts of both. I don't doubt that Sather has a good mind for hockey, but he was definitely in the right place at the right time with those absurdly good 1980's Edmonton teams. The success probably went to his head and made him think he was a bigger part of it than he really was, and he's been trying to duplicate it ever since. Unfortunately for him, teams like the Oilers come together in such a fashion very rarely. He's spent a lot of money, made a lot of moves, and generally put the Rangers' franchise image in the toilet trying to recreate the magic that was in Edmonton, but it's been to no avail.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

Only problem is, Dolan loves Sather so much he will never fire him

Or, as we call it in Philly, Snider-Clarke Syndrome.

[CanadianChris 0]

It's a lot of A and a bit of B. The real brains in the Oilers outfit was John Muckler -- as evidenced by the success of the Sabres and Senators on his watch.

[DerangedHermit 0]

If just basing what he did to the Rangers, Sather can burn in hockey hell. I think that would put him only 8 miles away (trap is crap!) But he'll be in hockey purgatory for now. Meh, it'll be years before the Rangers are respectable

 

/bitter Ranger fan (oh yay I get MSG back - now I can watch the Rangers lose again and again -- I'm not watching Fox Sports NY for the Isles and Devs, baseball starts in a week and a half- yay I can watch the Mets lose, Yankees win with roid monsters, and the only team I can watch without throwing up is the NJ Nets; I mean I'm a Mets/Rangers fan but it's depressing)