Comments on: Just the beginning: Expect flurry of trades over the next week

By: StakeX

StakeX — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:54:12 +0000

@strangerdays – Sather isn’t going anywhere until he quits, plain and simple… no matter what the outcome of the next couple seasons. Its painfully obvious the owners of the Rangers simply don’t care all that much what happens to their team, otherwise Sather would have been gone a LONG time ago. He has made so many terrible calls as GM that have caused huge issues for the Rangers, such as the $7m a year waste of space named Wade Redden… or what about Rozsival/Drury/Gomez? All three recieved large contracts with the Rangers… doing little more then wasteing cap space. In fact, its hard to find many good moves Sather has made over the years… yet his job seems to be safer then ever. The coach on the other hand will be the one who takes the fall if the Rangers don’t over perform this year (which they will have to in order to make the playoffs with the players they have now). If the Rangers don’t make the playoffs, Sather will fire Torts and blame him for their failure…
Personally Id love to see the Rangers turn into sellers and dump some of their dead weight. Tho I know that won’t happen because only Sather is dumb enough to sign them for what he did in the first place… which means that while the Rangers NEED to be buyers, its going to be hard for them with the cap.

By: strangerdays

strangerdays — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:08:23 +0000

Nick,
There is no way, that teh rangers could ever follow through with not being a “buyer” the big apple would not stand for the 4-6 years it would take to fix that mess… if they don’t make the playoffs next year (which they won’t) then the GM and coach will be fired (which they will).

By: grimjack

grimjack — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:51:15 +0000

I can’t imagine anyone taking Thomas without Boston having to eat some of that salary. How many teams need a $5 million dollar back-up goalie? Are you listening, Flyers? You don’t need to pay Tim Thomas $5 million to sit on the bench. And stop the Nabakov talk as well. If he was that great, he would have a ring. He never even got to the dance. Someone made a comment that Nabakov played the Hawks better then Leigton? Really? With Zero wins?

By: nick

nick — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:38:00 +0000

Are you sure the Rangers will be buyers? I heard slats is sticking with his younger players. If there gonna be buyers, who will it be that they recieve, and for who?