Well, now that Glen Sather has managed to shove the blame for his failings upon someone else yet again, I figured it might be good to look at just what he has done. Sather was officially hired by the Rangers June 1st, 2000. Let's take a look at some of his more memorable works - both good and bad - using Outside The Garden's transaction listings ...
July 1st, 2000 - Signed Vladimir Malakhov for four years for $14 million
June 24th, 2001 - Traded Adam Graves to San Jose for Mikael Samuelsson
August 20th, 2001 - Traded Jan Hlavac, Kim Johnsson, Pavel Brendl and 2003 3rd Round Pick to Philadelphia for Eric Lindros
March 18th, 2002 - Traded Igor Ulanov, Filip Novak, 2002 1st Round Pick, 2002 2nd Round Pick and 2003 4th Round Pick to Florida for Pavel Bure and 2002 2nd Round Pick
March 19th, 2002 - Traded Mike York and 2002 4th Round Pick to Edmonton for Tom Poti and Rem Murray
June 26th, 2002 - Traded Theo Fleury to San Jose for a 2002 6th Round Pick
July 1st, 2002 - Signed Bobby Holik for five years for $45 million
July 2nd, 2002 - Signed Darius Kasparaitus for six years for $25.5 million
December 12th, 2002 - Traded Tomas Kloucek, Rem Murray and Marek Zidlicky to Nashville for Mike Dunham
January 8th, 2003 - Traded 2004 4th Round Pick to Chicago for Boris Mironov
February 10th, 2003 - Traded Samuelsson, Joel Bouchard, Rico Fata, Richard Lintner and cash to Pittsburgh for Alexei Kovalev, Dan Lacouture, Janne Laukkanen and Mike Wilson
March 11th, 2003 - Traded Radek Dvorak and Cory Cross to Edmonton for Anson Carter and Ales Pisa
August 14th, 2003 - Re-signed Tom Poti for two years at $5.9 million
September 3rd, 2003 - Signed Boris Mironov for one year at $1,925,000
January 23rd, 2004 - Traded Anson Carter to Washington for Jaromir Jagr and cash
March 2nd, 2004 - Traded Alexei Kovalev to Montreal for Josef Balej and a 2004 2nd Round Pick
March 3rd, 2004 - Traded Briant Leetch and a Conditional Draft Pick to Toronto for Maxim Kondratiev, Jarkko Immonen, a 2004 1st Round Pick and a 2005 2nd Round Pick
March 3rd, 2004 - Traded Petr Nedved and Jussi Markkanen to Edmonton for Dwight Helminen, Stephen Valiquette and a 2004 2nd Round Pick
March 6th, 2004 - Traded Chris Simon and Conditional 2004 7th Round Draft Pick to Calgary for Jamie McLenna, Blair Betts and Greg Moore
March 8th, 2004 - Traded Matt Barnaby and a 2004 3rd Round Pick to Colorado for Chris McAllister, David Liffiton and a 2004 2nd Round Pick
March 8th, 2004 - Traded Vladimir Makarov to Philadelphia for Rick Kozak and a 2005 2nd Round Draft Pick
March 9th, 2004 - Traded Martin Rucinsky to Vancouver Canucks for R J Umberger and Martin Grenier
March 9th, 2004 - Traded Greg de Vries to Ottawa for Karel Rachunek and Alexandre Giroux
August 10th, 2004 - Signed Michael Nylander for three years for $8.9 million
July 29th, 2005 - Paid out Bobby Holik
August 2nd, 2005 - Signed Marek Malik for three years for $7.5 million
August 2nd, 2005 - Signed Martin Straka for one year for $3 million
October 7th, 2005 - Traded Jozef Balej to Vancouver with conditional pick for Fedor Fedorov
January 8th, 2006 - Traded Maxim Kondratiev for Petr Sykora and 2007 4th round pick
March 9th, 2006 - Traded 2006 3rd Round Pick to Anaheim for Sandis Ozolinsh
July 1st, 2006 - Signed Matt Cullen for four years for $11.2 million
July 3rd, 2006 - Signed Aaron Ward for two years for $5.5 million
July 9th, 2006 - Signed Brendan Shanahan for one year for $4 million
February 5th, 2007 - Traded Jan Marek, Marc-Andre Cliche and Jason Ward for Sean Avery and John Seymour
July 1st, 2007 - Signed Scott Gomez for seven years for $51.5 million
July 1st, 2007 - Signed Chris Drury for five years for $35.25 million
July 17th, 2007 - Traded Matt Cullen to Carolina for Andrew Hutchinson, Joe Barnes and a 2008 3rd Round Pick
February 26th, 2008 - Traded Al Montoya and Marcel Hossa to Phoenix for Fredrik Sjostrom, Josh Gratton and David LeNeveu
February 26th, 2008 - Traded 6th Round pick to St. Louis for Christian Backman
July 1st, 2008 - Signed Aaron Voros for three years for $3 million
July 1st, 2008 - Signed Wade Redden for six years for $39 million
July 2nd, 2008 - Traded Fedor Tyutin and Christian Backman to Columbus for Nikolai Zherdev and Dan Fritsche
Tom Renney came in just prior to the lockout to finish off a terrible season, and then guided the franchise through the "new" NHL and into the playoffs three straight years. If/when John Tortorella fails to bring in a even playoff team this year he will be let off the hook. But no Cup by 2012? Let's hope that Sather is the one to take the fall then ...
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Thanks for reliving some of these nightmares for me Scotty. I actually had conveniently forgotten about some of them. I would say overall sathers trades by far has been his best work: jagr, avery, dumping deadwood for picks. But the FA signings and our draft picks have been BRUTAL. I think we should have given Umberger a chance a few yrs ago. We also failed to sign young FAs Wheeler and Brunnstrum this summer. I think our only hope for near future is that somehow Drury Gomez Rozy or Redden have a big playoff and we can dump their $ in offseason. Jimmy
I often wonder, with some of the redunkulous contracts, if either the players or their agents have some very naughty photos of Sather?
I'm happy, no elated for Torts, to be on the bench, excited about the fire and brimstone to come!
I have to say, certainly a horrid bunch of moves. But trading Anson Carter to Washington for Jaromir Jagr and cash has to be his greatest move with the Rangers.
He traded Ward for Mara as well in 2006, masking his 2006 free agent class a total bust as he traded both of them either during or after taht season. and this putz has a lifetime job...
I still think that the Jaromir Jagr era made this team "uncoachable." He played pretty well for us, and worked out better than aquisitions such as Bure, Holik, and Lindros. But the lasting effect leaves much to be desired. The youngsters seemed to play well alongside Jagr, though I think Prucha tried too hard to please him. But, he's also the reason Slats went out and got two guys like Gomez and Drury...I don't know.
I just watched a few clips of interviews that Torts has done. He belongs here in New York. This is going to be a trip. Hope it works out well.
1. The Rangers are about "making the playoffs," not winning the Stanley Cup. So that, at this time every year we are in danger of seeing yet another short-term patching deal, that is, young, upside talent for mediocre. old, over-priced rentals.
2. I boil everytime Fats goes out and gets a Reitz, a Bell, a Dupuis, a Strudwick, an Ozolinch, etc. Always there is junk on the market and this moron grabs it - for the specific purpose of using these old bricks to block the advancement of the Anisimov's and the Sauer's of the world. This brain-dead old cow thinks our farm system, which he built, is virtually worthless. That tells you how inept and contray he is, like nothing else.
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