NHL Threatens To Kick Out NY Rangers Owners

Where does this long and winding tale begin? Let's start with my experiences at MSG these past few years.

For as long as I've been in New York City, I have heard nothing but complaints about the current owners of the New York Rangers and Madison Square Garden, L.P. We could start with the former Rangerette Captain who sued the Garden for sexual harassment (which was recently settled for fear that MSG would lose their second sexual harassment case after Isiah Thomas was found guilty of harassing an MSG executive). Shortly after Thomas was found guilty, MSG placed a hiring freeze for women (sure...they were definitely going in the right direction with that one - wouldn't that be a violation of the rules set out by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission???).

Rumors ran rampant over Charles Dolan's (owner of Cablevision, which also owns MSG) reaction to the Thomas verdict. Some said that you could hear him screaming at his son, Jim (CEO of MSG), on the other side of the building, telling him that he better get a grip on things at MSG. Everyone knew how disappointed he was in his son, but yet Jim was not bounced from his position as CEO like so many had hoped.

At the beginning of the 2007-2008 season, the NHL began to universally change the format for all of the NHL teams' websites throughout the league so that they would all look the same.