Brooks: Find A Job for Messier

Larry Brooks at the New York Post/Fox Sports feels the Rangers need to find a job for Mark Messier with the organization...

"Coming up on five years after he played his last game, Messier is on the outside looking in while contemporaries such as Wayne Gretzky, Steve Yzerman, Al MacInnis and Ron Francis are making their marks in organizations around the league."

Broooks adds that Glen Sather and Messier had a lengthy discussion on a front office job last June in Ottawa before the Entry Draft, but that there's been no job offer since.

On working for the Rangers, Messier says...

"Obviously, my preference is to work with the Rangers," said Messier, who is planning to move back to New York next year with his family. "But at the same time, there has to be an open position and it has to be a position that makes sense for both parties."

...i wouldn't want to see Messier go directly behind the bench or become GM. I'd rather they give him an assistant coach or GM title first, let him learn the ropes and then promote. Just because he was great on the ice doesn't mean he'll be great right away in the front office.