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Patrick Roy puts in rookie goalie to replace starter (who let in 6 goals) and pulls him after letting up one goal...

If you've ever dated a French Canadian you know they are all nuts, even the kids. And I do mean that respectfully of course.

Roy just put a chip on that kid's shoulder. Some players respond well and rise to it and some don't. If Lennox was ever going to have any kind of future in this league as a goalie he comes in to every single practice pissed off and focused.
 
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Roy makes some interesting decisions. I remember the last time the Ducks faced the Islanders he pulled the goalie with 12 minutes remaining in the game.
 
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Meh, no big deal, I think, The Isles were missing the playoffs anyway, so it's all kind of "whatever" at this point.

That being said, pulling the young goalie after one shot is... odd.

Damn, Roy is entertaining. Really hope he's back next season.
 
Probably trying to get fired but no clue why the Isles called up Lennox who’s barely played pro hockey due to injuries.
 
Settles down his starter, puts him back in,

If anyone thinks he did this and didn't talk to the goaltenders about it, during or after, I don't know what to tell you except you are bitching to bitch
 
NYI need to retool, and while I'm not as pessimistic about the state of the franchise as many other NYI fans, I really do not think Roy is a good fit for what is likely to be a couple years of retooling. NYI's defensemen that I've watched for years under other coaches are playing erratically under Roy especially lately, so my theory is that his personality is getting to them. Adam Pelech is playing like he did as a rookie. It's bizarre. They need to settle down. I don't see why NYI should be so attached to Roy as to work it out.

I also think that it's time to move on from LL, although I think some of his decision making has been unfairly criticized. The direction NYI take this offseason, and unlike in recent years NYI will have choices. They have some assets, and important decisions to make esp wrt RFA's Romanov, Dobson, and Holmstrom. But imo staying with Roy, something a younger LL would never have done, would imo be a signal that it's really time to move on from him.

What NYI absolutely *cannot* do is continue to be destroyed on special teams, and I do not see how this tandem fixes that. And I get that the PP will be a slower fix, but there's no reason they should continue to be so incredibly putrid on the PK.

This goaltending move just seemed like an unnecessary messing with some players' heads, which Hickey alluded to afterward. Not that I think Tristan Lennox is a future NHL goalie, but imo it's a really ***** thing to do to a person who just, in a very unlikely way, realized his dream of playing in the NHL. And imo if a really level headed guy like Hickey didn't like it I don't think any player would like it. Tbh, I rather think NYI need a coach with a personality like Hickey's than like Roy's.

Most NYI fans are likely to have a different opinion, because Jack Capuano looked and talked like a phys ed teacher from a new england suburb, but among recent NYI coaches I put him *above* Roy. Like Capuano, Roy isn't good with in game situations. But Capuano taught/managed well behind the scenes. Roy has fun press conferences.
 
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Habs fan happy despite the media pressure we dodged the bullet of hiring him for any role in the organization
 
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