In the last Four years I have watched a proud Rangers organization falter big time. Being that I am a huge Ranger fan and have been watching them since I was in the third grade, this has been very disappointing and frustrating. Neil Smith, who was the Rangers General Manager for 10 seasons, was fired last season for many good reasons. He dismantled a very respectable franchise into one that has not seen the playoffs in years. Getting rid of their captain Mark Messier, who led them to the Stanley Cup Championship in 1994, was the biggest mistake Smith ever made. After getting rid of Messier in 1997 the Rangers haven’t made the playoffs since. The post Messier philosophy Smi

The New York Rangers are on their way to becoming an NHL powerhouse for many years. General Manager Glen Sather has already done a great job of trying to put a puzzle back together, like he once did in Edmonton, to a franchise that has been down and out in the last four years. I think by the end of this season, the Rangers will add up to some of the top elite teams in the league. As long as the Rangers make the playoffs, I think they have a good shot at winning the Cup. Let’s Go Rangers!

Right away at the beginning of the summer Sather started to build the Rangers back to respectability, and back to being a playoff team. The first acquisition he made was to bring in a very good coach in Ron Low, and the rest of Low’s knowledgeable coaching staff. I think the Rangers management and coaching staff right now is the best it’s been in a long while. The next great move Sather pulled off was to bring the captain Mark Messier back to New York. Messier had been in Vancouver for three seasons after Neil Smith decided to get rid of him. Sather has brought in some proven young stars such as Eric Lindros and Theo Fleury. These two players give the Rangers a nice one two punch for scoring that they haven’t had in the past. In the off-seasons NHL draft, Sather picked up the Rangers future all-star goalt

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