The Sharp/Versteeg issue could very well be both need to be dealt. I have read an awful lot about their cap situation. Even if Sopel and Huet are moved / demoted. It is likely both will have to be dealt. Personally I love Sharp the way he plays his leadership and what he can bring to a team. Playing both center and wing all year.
He also played a lot of the year with Hossa, and I think would look great skating alongside Gaborik on the first line. He isn't a bonafide first line center but could help out either our first or second line. If there isn't anyone that we love at 40 i would love to see sharp in ranger blue.

The other players on this list we need to stay away from. Spezza is another option but not in my mind, plus ottawa wouldn't take rozi last year at the draft for heatley they won't take him for spezza.

Does anyone think that when the 'Sham' Sather calls any GM who actually knows his job that they laugh and cuckle at this fossil of a joke before picking up the phone? Do they even bother talking to him or have their secretaries take a message?

I have said since the earley part of the last decade that until the ancer is removed, the franchise will continue to suffer. Sather is a cancer that Dr. Dolan does not seem to be in a hurry to move. Ranger fans, pelase begin the boycott and let the sham see a sea of empty seats. How much longer will you all continue to pay for tickets and buy the jersey's for an upper management who is either too incompetent to run a club or an owner who has never had to work a day in his life.

I agree very much with steve k. I will boycott this time as I have for a long and have posted blogs of much similarity on blue shirt bulletin and in the presses. I hate this a$$%^le sather he is a pile of crap. I will not even concider going to another game or buying a nother jersey or piece of memrobilla of this time. This orginazation treats their fans like total garbage and dont care one ioda about the club either. Sather and Dolan are only worried about getting to the first round of the playoffs then ousted after that. This team has not been elite for a long long time and will continue to fail with this lineup of leadership and management. They have made so many bluders of signings of the last decade and mistake after horrible mistake of garbage players,coaches and managers. Why wont you other fans stand up and take a stand against this crap they do it in other cities and it has worked look at washington, the penguins the blackhawks all those teams that got boycotted built up and now are elite teams why dosent the greatest city in the world have a elite hockey team nobody can answer. Sather and Dolan dont even show up in the media its like they are untouchable. I would never route for another team but I will stop watching this team till They can straighten this out. Why watch a team win 1 game then lose 6 win 2 lose 12 and over and over again. Give up and pray maybe it will all change for the best.

@ STEVE K - I WILL NOT LET ONE MAN RUIN MY LOVE FOR A TEAM THAT WAS BUILT YEARS BEFORE HIM AND WILL CONTINUE TO EXIST AFTER, I LOVE THE RANGERS AND WILL NOT LET ONE MANS POOR BUSINESS DECISIONS EFFECT MY PASSION FOR THE TEAM AND NEITHER SHOULD ANY RANGER FAN

heres one for sather.first line-zucarello-?-gaborik.-second line-gravchev-dubinsky-callahan.-third line-avery-drury-?.-fourth line-shelley-anisimov-prust.-defence-staal-volchenchov.-rosizal-delsotto-girardi-gilroy.goalies-lundqvuist-johnson.and after signing girardi and staal to nice raises and giving volchenchov about 5 million a year.that leaves the payroll at about 50 million and with the cap goin up 2 million that gives us about 8million for a first line center and a third liner.we also get younger.and bury that retard redden in the minors.

Ed:

While I appreciate your passion and dedication, my decision was not made easily. However, when there is such a blatant disregard for one of the most loyal sports fanbase of an organization such as there is with the Rangers, after a full decade of incompetence, poor drafting, horrendous free-agent signings and then finally not even giving interviews to explain away or to try and explain away signings that even the most basic and limited among us would concede are foolish at best, then one needs to take a stand. I had gone to at least one Ranger game a season since I have been 12 - 1982. My first game was in the infamous Rangers-Bruins game in 1979 when Boston went into the stands. I was at game 6 in '94 when Messier scored the hat-trick, the Cup winning game and since moving to New England in 2003 had either gone to the "new" Boston Garden when the Rangers were in town or would schedule a couple of days around if they were playing at home when going back to New Jersey to see family and friends. Sather does not effect my love for the team. He does however effect as to whether I will continually throw money away for a franchise whose upper management is so clueless and so uninformed that they would allow a failed, out of touch relic like Sather to continually run this franchise into the ground with little or no questions asked. His record in New York is indefensible as is any concievable reason to keep this man employed. I had also written that he ought to be embarassed everytime he cashes a paycheck because he has earned nothing except scorn from Rangers fans all over the country - if nor the world. However, I think that he is even too arrogant and out of touch to feel any sense of shame or embarassment over his deteriorating management skills. If you choose to pour your money into this failed experiment which shows no signs of ending, then you are a wealthier person than I. However, my decision is made and as of last year I will no longer invest good money into bad management. Meaning, I will not attend any games home or away that the Ranges are in, will no longer buy any jerseys or any other Rangers endorsed collectibles. It's been 10 years. 8 years too long for this washed up, over-rated leech of a human being to still hold any kind of job. You can throw your money away. I'll save it for something worth while. Simple as that.

Ed:

While I appreciate your passion and dedication, my decision was not made easily. However, when there is such a blatant disregard for one of the most loyal sports fanbase of an organization such as there is with the Rangers, after a full decade of incompetence, poor drafting, horrendous free-agent signings and then finally not even giving interviews to explain away or to try and explain away signings that even the most basic and limited among us would concede are foolish at best, then one needs to take a stand. I had gone to at least one Ranger game a season since I have been 12 - 1982. My first game was in the infamous Rangers-Bruins game in 1979 when Boston went into the stands. I was at game 6 in '94 when Messier scored the hat-trick, the Cup winning game and since moving to New England in 2003 had either gone to the "new" Boston Garden when the Rangers were in town or would schedule a couple of days around if they were playing at home when going back to New Jersey to see family and friends. Sather does not effect my love for the team. He does however effect as to whether I will continually throw money away for a franchise whose upper management is so clueless and so uninformed that they would allow a failed, out of touch relic like Sather to continually run this franchise into the ground with little or no questions asked. His record in New York is indefensible as is any concievable reason to keep this man employed. I had also written that he ought to be embarassed everytime he cashes a paycheck because he has earned nothing except scorn from Rangers fans all over the country - if nor the world. However, I think that he is even too arrogant and out of touch to feel any sense of shame or embarassment over his deteriorating management skills. If you choose to pour your money into this failed experiment which shows no signs of ending, then you are a wealthier person than I. However, my decision is made and as of last year I will no longer invest good money into bad management. Meaning, I will not attend any games home or away that the Ranges are in, will no longer buy any jerseys or any other Rangers endorsed collectibles. It's been 10 years. 8 years too long for this washed up, over-rated leech of a human being to still hold any kind of job. You can throw your money away. I'll save it for something worth while. Simple as that.

steve k- i presume you don't have center ice or cablevision or at least msg network - because either directly or indirectly puts money in hands of dolans. also indirectly if you watch games on tv you add to ratings.

i've cut back on games myself and sometimes rely on secondatuy mkts to get tickets at 1/2 price or even less. but will still go to some games and won't preach to others to stop going. it seems to me that most who do the preaching to stop going to games live out of town so their sacrifice of not going is very minimal. there is more to the experience of going to the games than just the rangers - it would include friends you sit near, etc

According the Russian newspaper, Washington’s forward Semin won’t be in a team next season. Do Rangers need him?

please no on semin. he's very very soft especially come playoff time