Someone please, just shoot me now.

[Cyberlibrarian]

The latest rumor about the Rangers coaching vacancy is that Glen Sather is interviewing Bryan Trottier.

OH NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:barf: :pout: :bigeyecry :crying2: :argue:

[Trots]

LF, you know just the rumor of this is making me crazy. I just can't take the thought of my guy behind the Blueshirts bench. I hope Slats has another ex-Oiler that he prefers and Bryan can get a job with another team. Does anybody, and I do mean anybody (well, okay not the Flyers), have an opening? I hate to root against Trots getting the head coaching job he wants, but I just can't support the Rangers.

[Cyberlibrarian]

Join the club! I've hated the Rangers even before I fell in love with the Islanders!

As a loyal Islander fan since Day 1, I want Trots to be happy, but as a freakin' Blue Shirt? That's just wrong, I tell you, wrong!!! Those people think they're the Yankees of hockey, and they are just deluding themselves. As much as I hate the Skanks (and I do, as you all know), at least they have something to brag about. But the Rangers? WTF???

Can you imagine what it would be like at the Coliseum next year if Trots were on the "other" bench? YIKES!

The only thing that's keeping me going is the rumor that Sather is waiting for the Cup finals to be over so he can interview the Wings' bench coach.

pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease

:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

[Cyberlibrarian]

It's done. According to the NY Post, Trots is now the enemy.

http://www.nypost.com/sports/rangers/43620.htm Bryan Trottier, perhaps the greatest Islander in franchise history, will become the next head coach of the Rangers, The Post has learned exclusively.

Sources have told The Post that Ranger GM Glen Sather sought and received permission from Colorado GM Pierre Lacroix to speak to Trottier before the start of the playoffs, then met with the Avalanche assistant prior to the opening of the team's title defense that ended with Game 7 defeat to the Red Wings here on Friday.

Sather, who then remained in consistent contact with the Hall of Fame centerman, offered Trottier the position over the weekend in order not to be beaten to the draw.

...At one point, the concept of an Islander legend becoming the leader of the Rangers was unthinkable. But then, so was the concept of the Rangers missing the playoffs five straight years. As far as I, and most of my Islander-fan friends, think, it's still unthinkable. We could have handled it if it had been the Stars, or anyone else other than the Rangers.

This just stinks. :barf:

[I Are Baboon]

It's official!! Sorry, Ranger fans.

Why isn't anyone giving Ted Nolan another chance? I just don't get that.

[Trots]

LF, I am heartbroken. Why, oh why, did it have to be the Rangers? I'm sorry, Trots will always be my favorite Isle, but NYR is the enemy plain and simple. It's going to be very hard as I want Trottier to succeed, but I can't imagine any circumstance that would lead my to support the Rangers. Not even with an ex-Islander behind the bench.

As for Nolan, there has to be something more to the story. A skeleton we just don't know about. He's clearly out of the league for a reason.

[Cyberlibrarian]

It's getting worse. I saw an article today saying that Trots might like to have Mike Bossy with him behind the bench.

This is a win-win situation for Ranger fans. If Trots stinks up the place, they can say "he's an Islander, of course he sucks." But if he wins, they'll rub our noses in it because that's the kind of people they are.

What did we ever do to deserve this??? :crying2:

[I Are Baboon]

I think the Rangers would be better off putting Mike Bossy in the lineup!

[Trots]

What "we" did LF, was have one of the greatest teams in NHL history. I've decided to view like I view the Boston Celtics extended family. The Celtics were so good for so long that many of their ex-players now run other teams. If you look at many front offices around the NBA you find ex-Celts all over the place. Now, the Islanders of the Eighties are getting their chance.

Goring's had a shot or two. Billy Smith coaches. Half the Sutters are coaching, the other half probably will be and two of them wore blue and orange. Dave Lewis, who got traded right before the Cup arrived on LI, is one of Bowman's assistant's in Detroit. Of course, Trots has been coaching for years. I'm sure there are other ex-Isles doing the same. It's the price of success. Unfortunately, the Islanders only have so many front office positions and there are too many former greats to employ them all.

It still pains me because it's the Rangers and Trots, but the Islanders had many great players who all deserve a chance to stay in hockey. Although, if Bossy is on the bench with him, that would double my discomfort. Just remind those NYR fans that they need Islanders (and Oilers) to run their team.

You are right about Bossy in the Rangers lineup, I Are, he's about the right age.

[Cyberlibrarian]

At least Billy Smith coaches for the Islanders. And we had Butch as our coach, and he wasn't that great.

But neither of them is Trottier. The man who, along with Potvin and Bossy, were the Islanders of the 1980s. The team I loved.

It's funny, because an Islander fan I know is still not willing to trust Laviolette because he played for the Rangers for about 5 minutes.

[Trots]

Believe me, LF, I understand completely. Nobody loved Trots (or Bossy or Potvin or Smitty or Nystrom or Tonelli, ......) more than me. This just going to be unpleasant no matter what.

I do love the fact the guy won't trust Laviolette because of his cup of coffee with the Rangers.

[Cyberlibrarian]

I have a Nystrom bobble-head doll. :biggrin: They gave them away at an Islanders/Wild game in March. It looks nothing like him, but hey...

I'm glad you understand this whole situation. It's just agonizing.

Laviolette's been great. If we had to have a Ranger, I'm glad it's not Messier or someone like that who's a "real" Ranger.

If Trottier were with any other team, I'd be happy for him. But not now. I just can't do it.

[Trots]

Oh, trust me, LF, this is my worst nightmare. I may be far from LI, but I bleed blue and orange. (I usually tell Ranger fans I run into that doctor's have medication for their problem. A shot or pills or something can correct their malady.) To have my favorite Islander coach the Rangers is still unimaginable, yet it's going to happen. Makes me sick.

A year or two ago when Trots got an interview with Columbus, I was ready to buy a Blue Jackets cap. When he didn't get the job, I felt bad for him. Now, I feel bad for me. And you, of course.

I couldn't agree more about Messier, although I guess he'll always be just as much an Oiler in my mind. Not that I have lots of happy thoughts about those Oiler teams, either.

[Cyberlibrarian]

I know he was an Oiler, and that the Oilers prevented the Isles from a five-peat, but he'll probably go into the HoF as a freakin' Ranger. The story here is that Messier had to approve the new coach. The guy's almost my age and is on the brink of retirement, but he gets to approve the new coach?

Puh-leeze. :hmm:

Medication for Ranger fans? I wonder if they have anything for Skankee fans? The overlap between the two groups is eerie.

I am definitely a blue-and-orange kinda girl. Mets and Islanders all the way! (Except for the Knicks -- I hate basketball with a passion, and I hate the Knicks especially)