Confirmed with Link: Sather to retire

[HockeyBasedNYC]

Until he signed Wade Redden. He just couldn't help himself.

Holik was the first one, right after suffering through the lockout and it ruined our hopes very quickly. Slats was moronic

 

[Larrybiv]

Good, now maybe we can win a Cup. IDC how many Cups he had with Edmonton. Was only a fan of his when he WAS a Ranger player. (How many of you didn't know that?) I declare the Sather jinx is gone.

 

[KevinFinnerty]

about time

 

[OrangePMD]

It makes it funnier because the Rangers are still playing for his salary.

That video was also made and released before Richards signed. It's both funny and sad how easy it was to predict how it would go down.

 

[McRanger]

Holik was the first one, right after suffering through the lockout and it ruined our hopes very quickly. Slats was moronic

Holik was gone by the start of the cap. He was signed summer 2002 and bought out after the lockout in summer 2005.

 

[frozenrubber]

Holik was gone by the start of the cap. He was signed summer 2002 and bought out after the lockout in summer 2005.

Woof. There were rumors at the time that signing Holik was also a punishment to the YankeesNets (the owners of the Devils at the time) for removing Yankee games from Cablevision.

Bobby Holik previously made 3.5m and then signs a 45M/5 year deal with the Rangers. So how does Bobby Holik show up at camp? Overweight and immediately has hip flexor issues for the first half of that season.

Holik was bought out to get under the 39M cap. They used the 'Holik' money to sign Straka and Malik.

Rangers weren't angels either, during the lockout, only the Rangers didn't pay signing bonuses to their players, stiffing Holik, Kasparaitis, and (poor) Jed Ortmeyer.