Hockey Hall of Famer Glen Sather, who built and coached the NHL’s last great dynasty with the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980s and helped resurrect the New York Rangers in the early 2000s, is retiring after six decades in the sport as a player, coach and executive. The Rangers announced the retirement on Wednesday.
FILE - Glen Sather smiles as he is introduced as the new president and general manager of the New York Rangers , Thursday, June 1, 2000, during a news conference at Madison Square Garden in New York. Hockey Hall of Famer Glen Sather, who built and coached the NHL ’s last great dynasty with the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980s and helped resurrect the New York Rangers in the past two decades, is retiring after six decades in the sport as a player, coach and executive.
“Whether with the dynastic Edmonton Oilers teams of the 1980s, the contending New York Rangers clubs of recent years or various iterations of Team Canada, Sather always showed a keen eye for elite talent and a deft touch for bringing out its best,” Bettman said in a statement. Known to most as “Slats,” Sather is one of two people in hockey history who won at least four Stanley Cups as both a head coach and a general manager. Punch Imlach of the Toronto Maple Leafs is the other.
A feisty third and fourth-line player, Sather immediately joined the coaching ranks upon his retirement following the 1976-77 season. He led the Oilers to 12 straight WHA and NHL playoff appearances, bucking the NHL trend of playing defense first. Sather played for Boston, Pittsburgh, the Rangers, St. Louis, Montreal and Minnesota in a 10-year career. He had 80 goals and 113 assists along with 724 penalty minutes. He was a member of the 1971-72 Rangers team that advanced to the Stanley Cup Final.
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