I’m all for shaking up the pot whenever it’s necessary, but exactly how many times does Glenn Sather get to stir up the Rangers’ pot before he winds up in the middle of the boiling water? You can’t kill a team for switching coaches this late — Lou Lamoriello proved that a few years back with the Devils — but eventually you do have to answer for a decade’s body of work, don’t you?
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Someone should remind Pat Knight that his old man had to win a few hundred games and a title or two before he was able to act like the biggest boor in the room. And before he was able to get away with observations like this one: I wasn’t surprised because I broke a rule. I know the rules, but sometimes you have to lay on a grenade to get your point across.”