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Deep pockets, deeper trouble: the Rangers seemingly spend money and lose games proportionately. Can Glen Sather engineer a turnaround for this team? (NHL).

The Sporting News

| January 13, 2003 | Greenberg, Jay | COPYRIGHT 2003 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

After years of going around throwing coins at practically any player who would take them, the Rangers last summer signed the squarest peg on the board.

If Bobby Holik, one of the most competitive players in the NHL, wasn't an overdue fit for a team that had been too easy to play for and, more tellingly, too easy to play against, then general manager Glen Sather is the monkey's uncle, and fans six seasons removed from a playoff game at Madison Square Garden should cry out in submission.

Signing Holik for $45 million over five years was an unprecedented sum for a center who never had scored 30 goals or had 70 points. But Holik, a 6-4, 225-pound, two-time ...

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