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Did Larry Brooks make up a story just to stick it to Glen Sather?

Greg over at Metro Hockey has a fantastic story about some investigative reporting done by Adrian Szkolar, a Ranger fan and student at Stony Brook University.

Last week Larry Brooks ran this story about the Rangers failure to offer Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik a contract when he was a free agent. You can click the link for the full Brooks' article, here is an excerpt:

Snubbed apparently because the GM was too busy angling to sign the not-even one-and-done Dimitri Kalinin after previously investing $11.5M annually in free agent defensemen Wade Redden and Michal Rozsival, Orpik re-upped with Pittsburgh for six years at an annual $3.75M cap hit.

As usual, tough words from Brooks on Sather. Larry has been on Glen's case for a long time, that's no secret to anyone who follows the Rangers on a daily basis. But with the evidence presented, it looks like Larry may have made this one up.

When Orpik re-upped with Pittsburgh, it was reported that Orpik turned down more money from the Rangers to stay with PIttsburgh, this was reported by Rossi.

The offers Orpik, 27, could have accepted from two other teams -- one of which was the Atlantic Division rival New York Rangers - would have paid him a higher annual salary.

So, Adrian went digging, first going to Brooks to ask him to clarify the situation, then to Rossi, who had reported directly from Orpik that the Rangers had an offer on the table for him.

Brooks naturally did not like being questioned, and the email exchange between him and Adrian is pretty interesting, because even though Adrian is presenting Brooks with pretty overwhelming evidence, Larry refuses to budge on the story he wrote.

You can read the whole story here, including the various emails between Adrian, Brooks, and Rossi.

I think the main question that sticks out for me is: Hasn't Glen Sather made enough mistakes that the media doesn't need to make any up?

Full props to Greg and Adrian at Metro Hockey, they did a great job with this.

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I gotta be honest I'm astounded that Brooks answered them

And he really didn’t help his cause when he did

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by Joe Fortunato on Dec 8, 2009 1:02 PM EST reply actions  

Greg and Adrian did a great job with this, but you are right, the most commendable thing might just be getting a reply from The Exalted One

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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Dec 8, 2009 1:03 PM EST up reply actions  

Larry Brooks is Eklund, who somehow managed to get some level of credibility. I take his words with a grain of salt, just like I do any “columnist”. More annoying, he writes like an 8th grader.

Glen Sather is a Hockey Genius.

http://glensathersucks.com/
http://twitter.com/ThGeneralissimo

by poploser on Dec 8, 2009 1:11 PM EST reply actions  

Larry Brooks is to sports reporting as Michal Roszival is to defense.

by DJ Wuss on Dec 8, 2009 1:15 PM EST reply actions  

What do you expect… he writes for the Post, not Blueshirt Banter or the Times.

My only concern is Sather coming away looking better from this, but I don’t think that’s possible.

by goodieNY on Dec 8, 2009 2:07 PM EST reply actions  

thanks for te props :-)

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by Joe Fortunato on Dec 8, 2009 2:43 PM EST up reply actions  

So is there a conclusion to the story yet? It kind of just cuts off at the end.

Like did Brooks send Adrian a flaming bag of poop or something?

by stonecoldcory on Dec 8, 2009 2:47 PM EST reply actions  

there has been no further communication from Larry on the subject

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by Jim Schmiedeberg on Dec 8, 2009 3:47 PM EST up reply actions  

We promised not to email Brooks again so unless he goes out of his way to get back to us, this could be the end. I highly doubt he will respond since each time he does makes him look worse.

by Greg Caggiano on Dec 9, 2009 7:43 AM EST up reply actions  

Nice Post

Great Stuff Mouth working it as only you can….

by Pauly D on Dec 8, 2009 3:20 PM EST reply actions  

he lost alll credibility with this story..

their both idiots. brooks and sather

LET'S GO RANGERS!!!

by Moshe52792 on Dec 8, 2009 4:20 PM EST reply actions  

Orpik's non-signing

I don’t know what went on exactly with the Orpik situation, but one thing as a Ranger fan of 20 years I can tell you is this……..guys like Brooks Orpik don’t ever wind up on Broadway. I don’t know what it is, because there’s been what, three or four GM’s since the late 80’s? The brass changes but the philosophy of soft defensemen does not. I mean, besides Jeff Beukaboom and Ulf Samuellson, who else like Orpik has played on our blueline? We sign tons and tons of soft defensemen and the only tough ones we do sign are too slow to be effective, i.e. Rich Pilon, Jason Strudwick, Paul Mara, David Karpa, etc. In fact, the only uber-physical defenseman we acquired at a young age was Tomas Kloucek, who was well on his way to becoming my favorite player, blew out his knee and then got concussion problems. Clearly defensemen like Orpik, Chara, Pronger and Phaneuf are quite bloody necessary to championship franchises, so what the hell is wrong with the Rangers brass? I just don’t get it. If there’s ever gonna be perennial championships on Broadway they need to revamp their way of thinking and stop throwing money at guys like Redden and Roszival.

by KingHenrik30 on Dec 8, 2009 5:03 PM EST reply actions  

Brooks is a fool.

"It ain't over till its over"---

by FreeBradshaw on Dec 8, 2009 7:33 PM EST reply actions  

Thanks for all the comments guys.

Just wanted to post a reminder that this was not an attack on Brooks and that we are awaiting on some more emails from various people hoping to get more info.

by Greg Caggiano on Dec 9, 2009 7:42 AM EST reply actions  

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