I've done some pretty amazing things since creating The New York Rangers Blog, including raising $7,000 in memory of Derek Boogaard and making a serious run at getting Sean Avery into the All Star Game. But every once in a while something happens that gives me a moment of pause and that happened this morning.I opened up the Wall Street Journal and there it was, a quote of mine being used in an article on the Rangers....If only it were so simple. In truth, Rangers general manager Glen Sather and the rest of the team's player-personnel staff have to weigh whether making a play for Nash is worth the risk of ruining what could be the franchise's first championship season since 1994—and of angering the team's fan base in the process. After Nash scored a game-tying goal Sunday in the Rangers' 3-2 overtime victory over Columbus, the crowd at Madison Square Garden began chanting, "WE DON'T WANT YOU!" That anti-trade sentiment is nothing against Nash, said K...
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February 23, 2012
