What!? No Barnaby picture? what's up with that?

did he really have a choice........off with his head and other body parts if you wish

Thanking Glen Sather? Are you serious? That's like watching me set a fire to your house, then watching the resulting inferno render your home a pile of worthless ash and then thanking me after I back a truck of building materials into your driveway and dump them on your front lawn.

Glen Sather created this mess. He deserves no thanks whatsoever for ATTEMPTING to clean it up. Glen Sather can salvage a modicum of respect in my eyes if and only if he finally takes responsibility for his egomaniacal actions, apologizes to the fans, pleads for our forgiveness and then promises us that he'll faithfully serve us from this point forward. Anything short of such remarks should result in a publicly humiliating firing of one Mr. Glen Sather.

Responses?

Yeah....

Look, no one can question the results here. And that does fall on the shoulders of Sather. But he tried to go for it and failed. Kill him for that....fine. he sucked wind as a coach, we agree.

But this rebuild....he is doing what we have asked for. Why kill him for that too ?

As for him apologizing....c'mon dude, he didn't get your daughter pregnant or hit your dog with his car. He failed at getting the Rangers into the playoffs....many before him did just the same.

I understand why people are mad....and I respect your opinion on this, mine is different, that's all. I want to give the guy credit for what he's doing right.

----}- Bird

Your points are well taken as well. Believe me. Nonetheless, he did not only "suck wind", as you put it, as a coach, but he is largely at fault as president and GM for the players that he brought in here. He's been given four years to make this thing right, and he's failed to do so.

As far as the rebuild is concerned, I think you have me all wrong. As a well-educated, die hard Ranger fan, I am as excited as you are about the rebuild. I too watched the game last night with great excitement and and steady eye toward the future. I liked what I saw from Lampman, from Ortmeyer. I liked Holik's passion, a passion that can only be explained by the fact that he was surrounded by eager kids.

Nonetheless, I think you are missing the boat here. Let's not be mistaken, Glen Sather's decision to rebuild was as much out of necessity as it was a desire to rebuild. He rode this thing so far into the ground that he was left with no choice. Praising him is like praising a man for making a left turn out of a narrow alley when only a left turn existed to be made. He had no choice but to do this--hardly an impressive feat.

In any other profession, any other organization, even, if a President/General Manager failed this miserably, he'd have been fired long ago. I don't believe Glen Sather has done the fan base any favors in deciding to rebuild. I believe he's done the fan base a GREAT disservice over the course of the past four years and for that, he deserve punishment, not praise.

I'd like to conclude by harkening back the analogy that I employed in my previous message, you cannot praise a man for ATTEMPTING to clean up a mess that he created in the first place. You risk encouraging the mess to garner the praise.

Glen Sather should not have a job here, but, understanding that I have little choice in the matter, if he is still with the organization in three years and we, as a fan base, are then enjoying great NHL success, I will nod in your direction, turn rightly back to Mr. Sather and thank him for a job well done in his occupation of a position the right to which he was entirely undeserving.