Right here’s one thing the Islanders’ brass should remember as Mike Sullivan and Rick Tocchet hit the teaching market, representing as loud a temptation as there’s to hurry issues up with the workforce’s basic supervisor search.
All however eight present basic managers within the NHL have employed a second head coach or are within the means of doing so. Those that haven’t (Eric Tulsky in Carolina, Chris MacFarland in Colorado, Don Waddell in Columbus, Stan Bowman in Edmonton, Barry Trotz in Nashville, Jason Botterill in Seattle, Julien BriseBois in Tampa and Chris Patrick in Washington) nearly uniformly have been employed prior to now three years — and most of them extra just lately than that.
The lone exception is BriseBois, who was the assistant basic supervisor when Jon Cooper was employed in Tampa and who has watched Cooper win a pair of Cups as basic supervisor after holding him on.
What the Islanders want proper now far outstrips something a head coach can present.
