"If Wojtek Wolski is the player Glen Sather thinks he is, the Rangers general manager hit the ball out of the park in bringing the 24-year-old winger to New York.

But of course, if Wolski is the player Sather believes he is, the GM wouldn't have been able to get him for 32-year-old Michal Rozsival, now would he have?

Rozsival, who never came close to duplicating his 2006-07 performance during which he was a horse in the late season and in two rounds of the playoffs, was expendable. A likeable fellow who did not deserve to be demonized, there was always something with Rozsival following that year.

He either was upset because his partner and friend Marek Malik was being mistreated, or he couldn't handle Jaromir Jagr yelling at him at the bench, or he missed Malik, or he missed Jagr, or he couldn't handle playing on the last year of his contract, or he couldn't deal with the responsibilities of being on a multi-year deal worth $5 million per.

When Rozsival played the type of hard, determined, physical hockey he displayed early in his tenure on Broadway, he was a formidable foe. But, perhaps breaking down after a series of injuries, he was too often passive. When he was passive, the rest of him was not strong enough -- he was miscast at the point -- to prevent him from becoming a liability.

So yes, Sather did good work in moving Rozsival with one year remaining on the contract. But while gaining eight years on the calendar and light years in talent on the exchange, Sather took on the Wolski contract that runs through next year and comes with a $3.8 million annual cap hit that could be more out of whack than Rozsival's charge."