Islanders not renewing Lou Lamoriello’s contract

[Paradoxe]

About time NYI joined the 21st century. Hopefully they don't f*** up the GM hire.... Roy getting fired needs to be the next thing that happens.

Yeah finally!!

I feel like next year might be an evaluation year. Minimal changes on the roster and Roy gets his choice of assistants. New GM/AGM as well as hockey ops department gets to see what they have from within the organization to make changes.

Next GM job: Get McKenna, so it will be a complete blow-up situation.

It does need a refresh but who knows what they’ll do. Ideally a quality president of hockey ops then go down the line. Thankfully they finally decided to make the change.

New Prez, New GM (separate jobs), and Roy to keep some linearity.

 

[islesfan3913]

This might be the greatest reply I’ve ever seen on the internet. Thank you for the laugh that’ll last a while

 

[Fatass]

Rebuild or retool? Will be difficult to rebuild with the long term contracts (with trade protection) to so many good veteran players. Seems like it’s a retool. Another club stuck in the middle and unwilling to rebuild through high picks in the draft.

 

[Zerotonine]

Wonder what will happen with ole st patrick

 

[StreetHawk]

Rebuild or retool? Will be difficult to rebuild with the long term contracts (with trade protection) to so many good veteran players. Seems like it’s a retool. Another club stuck in the middle and unwilling to rebuild through high picks in the draft.

They can’t trade all of Sorokin, Horvat, Barzal, mayfield, Pulloch, Pellech, Lee, cizisaks, jgp, and likely Dobson and Romanov as they’d be almost at ufa.

No rebuild. But a major retool is needed. Older Dmen and forwards need to be moved.

 

[LemonSauceD]

Shame he was just a 82 year old kid. Shame when they go out from the NHL young like that

You know you can call him Lou right? Let me hear you say, what's up Lou!

 

[Kojo]

Is Roy going to take over? That will be fun to watch.

 

[Mike C]

Rebuild or retool? Will be difficult to rebuild with the long term contracts (with trade protection) to so many good veteran players. Seems like it’s a retool. Another club stuck in the middle and unwilling to rebuild through high picks in the draft.

Oliver Wahlstrom says hi

 

[Jeremy2020]

Honestly, I felt like it was "Weekend at Bernies" situation there for a couple years now.

 

[Mike C]

Engvall is one of the two big reasons I would have fired Lou. Duclair is the other.

Engvall played well the last 20 games or so. I think he may turn out decent

 

[LeonDraisaitl]

Time to take the ol dog behind the barn

 

[Fatass]

Time to take the ol dog behind the barn

How about the old horse put out to pasture? Old Yeller was too sad.

 

[Chardo]

Now the NHL office can ditch their fax machine.

 

[Sports2]

FPBP

 

[ColbyChaos]

Yeah, it got ugly at the end.....and his hockey career is now over. But lets not forget what a force this dude was over his front office career and he had one hell of a dynamite career with the devils.

Even his first 3-4 years with the Isles was pretty good everyone thought they’d be ass when JT left yet they won several rounds and gave Tampa their toughest challenge 2 seasons in a row at the conference finals

 

[SI90]

It’s a Sicilian Message, Lou Lamoriello sleeps with the fishes.

 

[Maplebeasts]

Good decision. Lou knows his goalies but has been allergic to acquiring game breaking talent for a decade+. Dude is a relic of the pre-cap era. Roy should be next.

 

[Kevinsane]

Lou’s next job should be as a special advisor to a team of palaeontologists.

 

[Paradoxe]

Lou’s next job should be as a special advisor to a team of palaeontologists.

Digging up the ancestry line of trap hockey!

 

[danny90]

I could see him still getting hired, maybe the oilers

 

[Mr Nogatco]

wonder who's gonna hire him next

Walmart greeter

 

[Mr Nogatco]

f*** draft kings

 

[boredmale]

I think the Islanders should look into hiring Mitch Marner's Agent. lol

 

[Chuck Norris Trophy]

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

Even his first 3-4 years with the Isles was pretty good everyone thought they’d be ass when JT left yet they won several rounds and gave Tampa their toughest challenge 2 seasons in a row at the conference finals

Reduced sample sizes do reduced sample size things.