The largest winner of this Islanders summer time, except for the membership’s emboldened advertising and social media groups, is Patrick Roy, and it’s not an in depth name.
Roy, who clashed with basic supervisor Lou Lamoriello for a lot of final season, noticed Lamoriello get fired and Mathieu Darche, a basic supervisor much more open to his most well-liked play model, get employed.
He acquired to take the lead in hiring Ray Bennett and Bob Boughner as assistant coaches, changing a pair of Lamoriello acolytes in John MacLean and Tommy Albelin.
He’ll open camp in mid-September with a deeper roster that features No. 1 total decide Matthew Schaefer and with an organizational timeline that doesn’t demand the Islanders instantly contend for a championship, however merely that they make the playoffs, or a minimum of present critical growth in comparison with the mess of a 12 months in the past.
