NEW YORK (AP) — 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 p
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 early 2000s, 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. “Having the opportunity to be associated with the National Hockey League, and specifically the New York Rangers and Edmonton Oilers, has been one of the great privileges of my life,” Sather said in a statement.
In 126 Stanley Cup playoff games, Sather had a record of 89-37, and his .706 winning percentage in the playoffs is the best by any head coach in NHL history. He won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL’s Coach of the Year in 1985-86. Sather served as Team Canada’s general manager and coach for the 1996 World Cup of Hockey. In addition, he guided Team Canada’s 1994 Canada Cup championship, and he was the GM of the gold medal-winning team in the 1994 world hockey championship.
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