B R O A D W A Y***B L U E S H I R T S

rival.

i feel a winning streak coming up and a sweep of the home and home against the isles.

:shock:

and i feel very confident that we will score more than 2 goals in one of them.

Bathgate66

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

Bathgate66 wrote:

Jwmcc wrote:

The goal-less wonders strike again.

but wait
dont you see that 1 guy
( with the entire franchise on his shoulders)
i think he';s leading the league

He was rendered invisible on the one night I decide to use a friend's ticket.

thats cuz the opposition suffocates him,
sometimes putting 2 guys on him.
They shut him down, and our offense.

igotid88

xavier mcdaniel wrote:

Bathgate66 wrote:

Jwmcc wrote:

The goal-less wonders strike again.

but wait
dont you see that 1 guy
( with the entire franchise on his shoulders)
i think he';s leading the league

He was rendered invisible on the one night I decide to use a friend's ticket.

thats cuz the opposition suffocates him,
sometimes putting 2 guys on him.
They shut him down, and our offense.[/quote]

just as they did with Jagr

Bathgate66

the weekend is here

buff again
before our home and home with the Islanders .

Jwmcc

Man this team is just brutal to watch right now.

Bathgate66

Jwmcc wrote:

Man this team is just brutal to watch right now.

terrible.
this same train keeps a rolling,

Gaborik scores goals ( still leading the league )
but they cant win,
cant get steady heroic goaltending from Henrik right now ,
cant seem to get any bounces and or calls either.

disturbing.

xavier mcdaniel

Jwmcc wrote:

Man this team is just brutal to watch right now.

I guess it's not surprising that they gave up a shorthanded breakaway to a fourth-line slug..

rival.

close to rock bottom.

i just hope they dont get smacked around by the isles in this home and home.

Gary Carter

singularity wrote:

close to rock bottom.

i just hope they dont get smacked around by the isles in this home and home.

THN.com Blog: Sather the architect of Broadway's blues

Adam Proteau
2009-12-14 13:45:00

Before Michael Jackson’s death, master comedian Lewis Black told a great joke about the singer; essentially, Black said, Jackson had become such a joke, for all the wrong reasons, that you could simply state his name as the punch line to any setup – e.g., why did the chicken cross the road? Michael Jackson – and you’d still make people laugh.

I don’t know if Black is still telling the joke (knowing what I think I know about him, I’m sure he is), but if he needs a replacement subject for it, I have the perfect candidate:

The New York Rangers, a.k.a. the NHL’s answer to what happens when an unstoppable force (Henrik Lundqvist) meets an immovable object (the contracts of Wade Redden and Michal Rozsival).

To be fair, neither Redden nor Rozsival is the chief culprit behind the Blueshirts’ current skid (1-5-1 in their past seven games; 7-14-2 since mid-October). John Tortorella isn’t to blame, either.

Nope, 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.

How is it, then, Dolan fired Thomas nearly two years ago? Obviously, past successes as a basketball player carry less cache around Dolan’s office than past successes as an NHL GM and coach.


Say what you will about former Blueshirts GM Neil Smith, but the fact remains, the latter has won a championship in New York and the former has not. That Smith hasn’t found extended employment since then, while Sather keeps swinging and missing like a blindfolded kid at a piñata party in a wind tunnel, speaks to the inherent cruelties of life.

And that’s perhaps the biggest insult here: Rangers fans have had to endure the Sather era for more than a decade. Even in Toronto, where not winning NHL championships has become the team’s predominant tradition, Sather’s output in Manhattan would have had him on the breadlines in five years, tops.

It might be different were he proficient at drafting and developing young NHLers, but players such as Michael Del Zotto have been the exception and Hugh Jessiman-types the rule.

To summarize: Sather no longer can draft, spends free-agent dollars as if he were paid an agent’s commission and hasn’t seen the third round of the playoffs in 10 years. He has become a hidden husk of a fading legend, with a stick of dynamite where a cigar used to be.

With every passing day, the shine on his story dims. However, the more important defacing has happened to the Rangers, who have become the most directionless of the Original Six franchises – and the go-to punch line for forgetful jokesters.

Blueshirts diehards deserve far better than that. But nothing short of the current GM’s removal will reverse their malaise and stop them from believing Dolan wants 10 more years under Sather before giving up on this ghastly vision.


this blog post is dead on and i agree with it. i feel bad for rangers fan in that they have to put with a poor product year after year. sather is making mad mike look like a smart guy.

rival.

"while Sather keeps swinging and missing like a blindfolded kid at a piñata party in a wind tunnel, speaks to the inherent cruelties of life."

perfect line to summarize this clown.

Bathgate66

Messier awaits.
Perhaps Leetch will join him on the bench and ice.

Gary Carter

That game was so boring it was like watching paint dry


Does torts know he has 4 lines and not 2. Also can anyone on the rangers not give up the puck to gaborik. The highlight of the game was sim and avery talking smack and the fire sather chants. I can't even talk smack bout the rangers cause I actually feel bad for the fans.

xavier mcdaniel

metsfan wrote:

That game was so boring it was like watching paint dry


Does torts know he has 4 lines and not 2. Also can anyone on the rangers not give up the puck to gaborik. The highlight of the game was sim and avery talking smack and the fire sather chants. I can't even talk smack bout the rangers cause I actually feel bad for the fans.

I knew they sucked going into the season. I didn't think they would go 11 periods without scoring on even strength though. Your Islanders have done a decent job so far considering the expectations.

rival.

yup.

xavier mcdaniel

I think Tortorella's postgame press conference sums it up for us....


On the first period being unacceptable: “Absolutely. I have no explanation for how we started. I wish I could give you one.”

On the Islanders first goal being a “dirty” goal, one gotten simply by skating hard to the net: “That we don’t get. There’s horse*$)#@! coverage around the corners, he just brings it around the net. It’s a fluky goal. But we don’t get them.”

What’s the remedy for the way the team started in the first period: “What is the remedy? I don’t know how you want me to answer that.”
What do you think you need to do: “Play ^#(^&@ harder.”
As the coach, what do you need to do: “That’ll be something we’ll decide before tomorrow’s game.”

Is this group capable of figuring it out as constituted: “I’ll tell you right now, the thing that’s unacceptable about tonight’s game and we’re trying to stay positive around here, trying to work our way through it, but when we play like ^*^#@ like that for 20 minutes in a game like this in a back-to-back situation, it’s unacceptable. I’m not even going back as far as a month and are we capable. It’s simply unacceptable. There has to be something done and we’ll see along the way before tomorrow night’s game. We’ll see where we go with them. It’s just simply unacceptable how we started that game. I wish I could give you a ($@#*%# explanation about it. I can’t.

Bathgate66

swept in a season series , ? .........


by the Isles ? ? ?

:shock: :shock: :shock:

rival.

Bathgate66 wrote:

swept in a season series , ? .........


by the Isles ? ? ?

:shock: :shock: :shock:

would it really be that surpring though?

people had the rangers finishing bottom 3 in the conference before the season even started. looks like that was an accurate prediction.

things will get worse when lundqvist sits/rests before & after the olympics.

xavier mcdaniel

looks like redden and kotalik are healthy scratches tonight.

Jwmcc

I also read that Redden took the news of his being scratched rather....poorly.


And in other news, this is from an email a co-worker sent out:

Glen Sather's GM record since 1992-93

Last eight seasons with Oilers (1992-93 through 1999-2000): Missed playoffs four times, won two playoff series (one in 1997, one in 1998). Edmonton's 234-303-89 regular-season record over that span was 23rd-best in the NHL.

First 8 1/2 seasons with Rangers (2000-01 to date): Missed playoffs four times, won two playoff series (one in 2007, one in 2008). The Rangers' 313-286-90 regular-season record over that span ranks them 21st among the 30 NHL teams.

Do you know what the following players have in common?

Selmar Odelein, Scott Metcalfe, Kim Issel, Peter Soberlak, Francois Leroux, Jason Soules, Scott Allison, Tyler Wright, Joe Hulbig, Jason Arnott, Jason Bonsignore, Steve Kelly, Boyd Devereaux, Michel Riesen, Michael Henrich, Jani Rita.

They were the Oilers' first picks in the last 16 drafts that Sather oversaw with Edmonton. Well, he did get one good player (Arnott) out of 16 years of top picks. The others were all complete busts.

His yearly first picks with the Rangers: Filip Novak, Dan Blackburn, Lee Falardeau, Hugh Jessiman, Al Montoya, Marc Staal, Bobby Sanguinetti, the late Alexei Cherepanov, Michael Del Zotto, Chris Kreider.

xavier mcdaniel

Jwmcc wrote:

I also read that Redden took the news of his being scratched rather....poorly.


And in other news, this is from an email a co-worker sent out:

Glen Sather's GM record since 1992-93

Last eight seasons with Oilers (1992-93 through 1999-2000): Missed playoffs four times, won two playoff series (one in 1997, one in 1998). Edmonton's 234-303-89 regular-season record over that span was 23rd-best in the NHL.

First 8 1/2 seasons with Rangers (2000-01 to date): Missed playoffs four times, won two playoff series (one in 2007, one in 2008). The Rangers' 313-286-90 regular-season record over that span ranks them 21st among the 30 NHL teams.

Do you know what the following players have in common?

Selmar Odelein, Scott Metcalfe, Kim Issel, Peter Soberlak, Francois Leroux, Jason Soules, Scott Allison, Tyler Wright, Joe Hulbig, Jason Arnott, Jason Bonsignore, Steve Kelly, Boyd Devereaux, Michel Riesen, Michael Henrich, Jani Rita.

They were the Oilers' first picks in the last 16 drafts that Sather oversaw with Edmonton. Well, he did get one good player (Arnott) out of 16 years of top picks. The others were all complete busts.

His yearly first picks with the Rangers: Filip Novak, Dan Blackburn, Lee Falardeau, Hugh Jessiman, Al Montoya, Marc Staal, Bobby Sanguinetti, the late Alexei Cherepanov, Michael Del Zotto, Chris Kreider.

I saw that Redden was not thrilled. I wouldn't be either. I don't get the sense that he's the kind of player where something like this lights a fire.