I deleted your FanPost since there was already discussion going here, and we had a front page post due up as well; didn’t want another thread on the same topic dividing discussion.

Thanks for posting, just wanted to explain operations.

I didn’t like the original choice… but if Snow is just going to go and try to invent the NEXT BEST NEW THING on the cheap… NO! I’m not happy at all.
It didn’t take a genius to see this coming. Gordon needs a team with some vets that will buy into his style, push where he needs to be pushed, and lead to a common direction. This team NEVER had that and it was a disaster from the start…
AND THAT IS NOT SCOTT GORDON’S FAULT!
It’s just not fair to players (YOUNG AND OLD) who work their asses off to just feel like they have no shot. Witt laughed at it, Guerin laughed at it… and now everybody laughs at the team.
I don’ thtink Cappy will do much better… I don’t think Arbour or Bowman would do much better either… but with those two you’d KNOW exactly where you were.

yeah, well, it does suck that you get one AHL coach replacing another one, but a shakeup was needed… at least now all the big names will be lining up to tutor tavares, what’s melrose up to these days again? – in all seriousness, all i hear about JC are good things, he took that lump of S in BPT and got them to the po’s, maybe he can do the same here?

I don’t think that the cost of flying Capuano west was a decision factor. I think giving Capuano the luxury of starting with his home facilities and the roster in their home environment was a greater factor.

Does anyone know what the team’s travel arrangements were? I’m assuming they flew back yesterday and Snow had Gordon in his office first thing this morning to let him go. Players show up for practice today and find Capuano there.

I think that given that timing, Garth made his decision after the Anaheim game, where the Ducks did everything they could to give us the game in the first two periods and we just didn’t pick it up.

My Feeling
You can’t fire the Players.

Id fire the players.

At the very least Capuano should help improve defensive play

In Fairness 10 game losing streaks usually involve the coach getting fired. Just look at the Flyers last year and the Pens the year before.

it’s interim, but that’s as good as a 10 year deal, gordon’s still with the team, just in a “trottier” capacity now

I would think that’s why it’s an interim basis, so the Islanders can take a look at whose around following the season.

time warp/worm hole?

sounds like something at my job now

I like how it’s Brooks report, meanwhile everything points to Newsday breaking it.

“our report”…when it was Strang and Botta who apparently reported it first!

Oh Brooks…oh….that was a good moment of entertainment, and I thank you for it.

They’ve sent out a team news release, conference call coming up in a few minutes:
The New York Islanders announced today that Jack Capuano has been named interim head coach, replacing Scott Gordon. Gordon will remain with the organization as an adviser to General Manager, Garth Snow.

Capuano has served as the head coach of the Islanders’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers the past four seasons. He will make his National Hockey League head coaching debut on Wednesday, Nov. 17 against the Tampa Bay Lightning at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

 We believe we need a change in direction and, with the majority of the regular season still ahead of us, our goal remains to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs,” Snow said. “Scott has made tremendous strides with our team the past three seasons and I look forward to continuing our relationship in an advisory capacity.

The native of Cranston, RI, had a 133-100-8-14 career mark as head coach of the Sound Tigers. Capuano joined the New York Islanders organization in the 2005-06 season as an assistant coach with the Islanders. From 1997-2005 he served as the General Manager of the Pee Dee Pride of the East Coast Hockey League.

But I really don’t think he was the guy to begin with. I don’t think Cappy will be either… there needs to be a veteran force behind the bench when the team is so clearly lacking it on the ice.

lol, I was just in the middle of yelling at Fox Sports like a cranky old man.

they will have to release or bench Weight also! lol

Look for Gordon to get a player development role if he stays in the organization.

Also, we built for this system.

http://www.soundtigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&SPSID=363057&SPID=44754&DB_OEM_ID=22700&ATCLID=204772435

Binghamton has been Assistant coach for 5 years in BP

It’s on the bridgeport site too

http://www.soundtigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=22700&ATCLID=205031160

still a computer moron

Still under contract, might as well keep him around (a wee while) to pick his brain about the players. I don’t think he’ll be lurking in the shadows.

so he can get coffee for Snow,

Snow: “We have a big game Wednesday…we need a strong performance on this home stand…”

On Jack: “Jack’s done a great job in Bridgeport the last few seasons…it’s a situation where he has familiarity with a lot of players in that locker room.”

How disappointing is this? I know you had a lot of high hopes for this working with Scott.

Snow: “Very disappointing. He’s a good friend, it’s been great working with him the last three years.”

What was the final factor?
“Well, when you’ve lost 10 games you know … /warbled/ sometimes you have to go with your gut.”

Snow: [For transition mid-season], “Jack knows our players, so there won’t be a feeling-out process. Jack’s familiarity with them to me seemed like a strength.”

Snow: “I prefer to keep his reaction, things like that, between him and me. He’ll serve as an adviser to me for [various purposes] throguhout the organization.”

Snow: “Right now we’re just focused on Wednesday and this home stand. We need to come out strong…turn this team around.”

Snow: “Scott did an excellent job developing, not only those two players, but a lot of our young players. … Unfortunately, we’re in a situation where with ten losses in a row, it’s a situation where a change needed to be made, so we went ahead and did what I thought needed to be done for the organization.”

/CALL NOW OVER

Snow: "Obviously the biggest problem has been offense…"

“I expected a bunch of pimply panicked kids to carry this team with no veteran help other than Dougie. Is that so wrong?”

Washington after the Caps get bounced in the first round again

Hasn’t he always had issues since he left?

well we know garth isnt liking it… but until they pull him off their official blog list, they should live with him

There was some crazy noise with the call. Seemed like it was on mute forever, people jumping on and dropping off, idiot somewhere put his phone on hold, so we got piped in music and piped-in English soccer commentary.

This blogger behaved though. :P

Perhaps its good for ratings, but Im getting pretty tired of it.

Oh- and he deelted my comment from his sita feeling bad for Scott Gordon being fired, but he left up ones calling our owner a chink and things like that. WTG, Botta.

And knowing he usually is last call, and writing articles proactively to insulate Gordon, did he expect anything different? Can’t wait to see the venom in his next piece!!

I’m surprised this hasn’t replaced at least one of the stanley cup banners

he’s not been handed a lot to work with for sure, but they were not responding to his dry erase board style, that much was obvious

1. Not me.
2. Somewhat. No team is a 10-games-in-a-row-loser by definition, so just by odds the team is likely to bounce back a little.
3. All depends on the veteran coach. There are a lot available who I’d want nothing to do with.

And that would have happened even if Scott was still here.

There is a big difference between playing 12/17 on the road against mostly top teams and 12/17 at home against far fewer top teams, which is what they will be doing now.

Until after the game at Atlanta.

1- Capuano goes back to BP or leaves the organization after this season. (What’s his contract status, have we found that yet?)
2- Depends on what he does with the status quo – does he shake anything up strategically, change practice philosophies, who does he bench and when…?
3- Wang’s World…I wouldn’t say that hiring a KHL coach is out of the question. A veteran coach would be my preference, but who can we get that we’d be willing to live with?

i think 3 blowouts didnt help, as to #3, if it’s hitchcock, we may as well say goodbye to JT after and the russians

They already have to OVERPAY for UFA’s because their building sucks. They have problems with players because of the 10 year circus that they can’t seem to get away from. No media. No hopes of playoff success. No idea where the team will be in 2016…. and there isn’t a long list of veteran head coaches that want to work for Garth Snow(That’s an organizational thing, more than a garth thing)…. who really hasn’t shown the ability to move on coaches needs.
So… if Garth has an opportunity to get somebody in the class of Paul Maurice… he’d better duct tape him to the boards behind the bench and sign over whatever’s left in the Wang’s Mad Money account.

…but was he even given the chance. If they put a 3 year extension in front of him and told him that he’d be able to help BUILD the team the same way Gordon was… and in a cooperative environment… like Gordon was… I say he goes for it…
But Nolan didn’t play, coach or go to the university of maine, BU, BC, Our Lady of Maple Syrup HS or any of that… he was a F*(&ING COACH!!!

How many youngsters has Snow gotten rid of?

Tambelleni and Bergenheim is about it.

Hey hey, we called up Dylan Reese, our prays are answered

I think the Fans would revolt. Weight has 0 previous coaching experience. If they hired him as an assitant or for BP I’d be fine. But I can’t think of a player whose went directly behind the bench and has been successful without any previous coaching.

Like Reggie Dunlop. :)

I’m sure they told Capuano that if it doesn’t work out he can still return to BP

…but one of my first thoghts was… I wonder if Jaffe will be on NHL live talking about this.

Does he think Butchie should get the job?

Butchie press conference: “I am happy to be coaching the Rangers…I mean Aisle And Erz. Should be fun. Who’s on this team anyway? Does Doug Weight really play here? That’s amazing. He’s almost as old as I am.”

You could also argue the whole “losing because they lacked fire”, but that statement is a hard indicator of who to put the blame on(the players are supposed to play hard every night, but if the coach doesn’t yell at them from time to time to keep them on their feet, he isn’t exactly doing his job then).

I know what you mean. I’d venture most coach firings in the NHL are due to that undefined mix of roster issues and coach-with-roster issues. Sadly, “shake-up” changes are a part of it; perhaps unfair but still necessary.

I do imagine Capuano has a chance to make them more competitive, in party by simplifying things and in part by the old shock to the system. But even Al Arbour couldn’t make a gourmet meal with these ingredients.

of any coaching change.
This was Gordon’s walk year. The math just didn’t add up. This is a good time to see if it was the man or the message, because Cappy will come in with the same message… maybe a little different style of delivering it.
He gets a clean(?) slate with anybody Gordon may have alienated, and it shows that Snow isn’t asleep at the wheel.
The real problem comes in May. If Capuano isn’t the answer… and that means the message needs to be changed… can Snow take a step back, re-evaluate, and lure an available coach with some NHL experience to re-focus the team in 2011-12.
He ahs a ton of work to do in re-signing talent… so hopefully he will make that decision ASAP. Maybe put out some feelers… and start getting “How i would change the NYI essays from prospective coaches”
I say that because this team’s history dictates that anybody who’d be in line for the job wouldn’t have a self evident resume. Not only that, there’s a good possibility that Snow will be competing for coaches against much more atractive situations… well… that set only includes 29 other teams… including the one you root for.

The facts are the Islanders only make the cap floor because Streit isn’t on LTIR and because Yashin’s buyout counts.

That is certainly not a fact since it is wrong. First of all, Streit IS on LTIR. Secondly, When players are on LTIR, their caphits DO NOT DISAPPEAR. Ever. What DOES happen is that, when a player is on LTIR, a team is allowed to go over the cap ceiling by the amount of that players caphit.

… I guess they had to make it look like they were doing something.

I feel bad for Scott. There were a few people on the interwebs who were quietly starting to suggest he might be Coach of the Year, given their early success this season despite the terrible injury losses. I’m hoping that he does real work in his new position and that it helps the team. And if he is not kept on in that capacity, at least he will have a little more experience to show on his resume.