The Shocking Truth Behind the NHL’s Longest-Tenured Worst GM Revealed
He did end up in New York, and he did lose games. Quite a few, actually. The Rangers failed to make the playoffs in any of Sather’s pre-lockout seasons, which ironically were the ones where he could outspend everyone. They improved over the years to come, especially over Sather’s last two seasons, in which they won a Presidents’ Trophy and went to the final. But it’s those early years that many fans remember.
Signature move: Signing every bad UFA contract you can remember from that era.
Bottom line: Sather is the classic case of a GM who seemed to get the blame when things were bad, and not much of the credit when they were good. I wonder if we’d remember his time in New York the same way if it weren’t for that infamous quote.
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