How cool is this news? Ted Nolan is out because of philosophical differences with Garth Snow...you just can't make this stuff up! Perhaps Snow wanted Nolan to wear shoulder pads under his suit that made his shoulders higher than the top of his head...like Snow did when he played goal.
This furthers my dad's argument that Bill Torrey sold his soul to Miroslav Satan back in 1980, which allowed the Stinklanders to win some Stanley Cups, but then turned them into the laughing stock of the league once the run was over.
Think about all the missteps over the years...
...hiring Don Maloney as GM to secretly begin a reign of error that sends the franchise spiraling down a drain they'll never get out of...
...Maloney trades for Ron Hextall...
...Maloney trades Pierre Turgeon for Kirk Muller during the season, then allows Muller to leave via free ageny after the season...
...they bring in the absolutely riduclous fishsticks uniforms, one of the worst decisions a sports franchise has made in our lifetime...unless you're a Ranger fan, of course, since the uniforms have been something we can and will use against them forever...
...Lorne Henning and Rick Bowness's brief and failed attempts at coaching...
...the team being sold to John Spano, who, it turned out, didn't have as much in assets as the average satellite forum poster...and Spano winds up in jail for fraud...
...the center ice scoreboard crashing to the ground when luckily nobody was underneath it...surely a sign of good things to come...
...Mike Milbury's brilliant trades of Roberto Luongo, Oli Jokinen, Bryan Berrard, Todd Bertuzzi and Zdeno Chara...
...Milbury's equally brilliant firing of Peter Laviolette because the players said they lost confidence in him...right before he found the confidence to win the Stanley Cup with the Canes...
...the albatross contract of Alexie Yashin...
...the hiring and firing (quitting?) of Neil Smith as GM to replace Milbury, which happened within about 15 minutes of each other...and replacing Smith with the backup goalie...
...trading prospect Robert Nilsson for Ryan Smith at the deadline, who took one look around when he got to Long Island and immediately decided he was signing elsewhere at the end of the season...
...today's firing of Ted Nolan...
I know my Rangers are bad, but goodness having a team like the messlanders a few miles away makes any team look good in comparison.
Sandra