Is Sather all that bad?

John Grigg from The Hockey News blog has an interesting article today about the "upside" to having Glen Sather as Rangers' GM.

"The decisions his haters point to other than bad signings include a revolving door of coaches; the selection of Hugh Jessiman 12th overall in 2003 – the only first-rounder from that year who has yet to play an NHL game and those chosen later in Round 1 include 2010 Olympians Brent Seabrook, Zach Parise, Ryan Getzlaf, Ryan Kesler, Mike Richards and Corey Perry; and trading away fan favorites Adam Graves and Brian Leetch. 

But for all his perceived faults, you have to give Sather credit for at least one thing: he’s sly as a fox when it comes to divesting himself of bad contracts."

For the full article, click here

Despite the fact I'd like to see Sather on the first train out of New York, Grigg makes a point here.


Sather's biggest smoke-screen effort as GM was somehow convincing Montreal to take on Scott Gomez' bloated contract, giving us potential blue-line studs in Ryan McDonagh and Pavel Valentenko (in camp vying for spots), and parlaying the saved money into Marian Gaborik's new contract. Talk about pulling a rabbit out of a hat. 


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