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Staple's analysis: Is this the year Rangers' Sather exercises patience?

General Manager Glen Sather of the New York

Photo credit: Getty Images | General Manager Glen Sather of the New York Rangers looks on from the Rangers draft table during the second day of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. (June 27, 2009)

Arthur Staple

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Is this the year? Is this the July 1 that Glen Sather finally retires his itchy trigger finger?

The question was asked a year ago, and admittedly, Sather did not go crazy when the free-agent gates opened last summer.

He hit a home run with Marian Gaborik, and another later in the summer with Vinny Prospal. But there were two whiffs, and every one of those is costly: Donald Brashear for...

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