Lou Lamoriello is an authentic. Considered one of a sort who walks with hockey’s historic giants. He belongs in the identical sentence with Sam Pollock and Invoice Torrey.
He created the powerhouse Devils in his personal picture. He had a big hand in restoring the Maple Leafs to respectability.
And for his third act, Lamoriello’s gravitas reversed the Islanders’ picture as a laughingstock whereas producing the franchise’s biggest success because the Dynasty got here to an finish 4 many years in the past.
However Lamoriello is out now after, as we hear it, shedding an influence battle to working companion and alternate governor John Collins in representing the Scott Malkin-Jon Ledecky possession that needed extra management — management, interval — over the operation after ceding authority to the three-time Stanley Cup winner.
