Scapegoating anyone? The Rangers have fired coach Tom Renney with the club in the middle of a dreadful slide. After once looking like an Eastern Conference favorite thanks to a 10-2-1 start, the Rangers have slipped to within one point of the final playoff spot. With one quarter of the season remaining, the still-immune Glen Sather hopes the team can recover in time after the leadership change. Renney's task this season was not easy, but he appeared to get off on the right foot, adjusting well to the departures of Jaromir Jagr and Brendan Shanahan. But his skaters, including Chris Drury and Scott Gomez, still had big names -- and big contracts -- and a middling performance in the season's second half did him in.