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.
season ended with the Panthers beating the Oilers in Game 7 for the franchise’s first Stanley Cup. Coincidently, the Panthers knocked off thealways showed a keen eye for elite talent and a deft touch for bringing out its best,” Bettman said in a statement.
“As important, he cared deeply about his players as people, sought to develop them as men and supported them through any off-ice challenges,” he added., who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997 in the builder category, won five Stanley Cups as the Oilers’ general manager. He was also the head coach for the first four of them, with John Muckler in charge for the last one in 1990.
PHOTOS: Hall of Famer Glen Sather retires after six decades, highlighted by building the Oilers' dynastyis 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.led Edmonton to Cup championships in 1984, ‘85, ’87, ’88 and 1990. He served as a head coach in 932had a record of 89-37, and his .
Acquiring Wayne Gretzky from a cash-strapped owner helped with that, and combining with scout Barry Fraser to draft Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Glenn Anderson, Jari Kurri, Andy Moog and Kevin Lowe in his first two years as general manager turned the Oilers into a powerhouse.served as Team Canada’s general manager and coach for the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.
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