LOS ANGELES — Hours before the Los Angeles Kings clinched a playoff berth Saturday, General Manager Dean Lombardi leaned back against a locker room stall and put his hands behind his head and his feet up to shoot the breeze about baseball.
In general, a shipyard has few building berths and uses extensive areas around them for the construction of large components of the steel hull.
After guiding the Oilers to two playoff berths in four years as their general manager, Klosterman moved to the N.F.L., joining Baltimore as general manager in 1970.
The Jets returned to Central New York as a revamped outfit, their coaching staff dismantled after a second consecutive season without a playoff berth, their roster purged by the new general manager John Idzik.
But they wouldn't be playing for their first World Series berth since Ronald Reagan was president if their general manager, Doug Melvin, hadn't traded away several other products of the club's killer farm system for a pair of starting pitchers, Zack Greinke and Shaun Marcum.
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Yesterday morning, Glen Sather, in his second season as the Rangers' president and general manager, called this season -- the fifth consecutive without a playoff berth -- a greater disappointment than last season.
In 2002, West became general manager of the Memphis Grizzlies and helped the franchise win their first-ever playoff berths.
Sounders FC general manager Adrian Hanauer commented on his club's desire to win the cup and a berth into the CONCACAF Champions League, "That's one step towards our stated goal of competing in the world club championships, because the winner of the CONCACAF Champions League wins a spot in the World Club Championships".
With the Rangers having gone a franchise-record six seasons in a row without a playoff berth, could this be a make-or-break season for Glen Sather, the team's president, general manager and coach?
