Capuano to Remain as Isles Head Coach: (Strang/Newsday)
"Assistant coaches Dean Chynoweth and Scott Allen are both expected to return; the Islanders are also considering bringing Doug Weight into the coaching fold if he retires."
Link to team release:
about 1 year ago
Keith Quinn
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I am ridiculously happy about this news
especially so soon after the season ended. It not only shows that Snow is committed to a coach that made something out of nothing, but also shows that it was a no-contest decision.
Garth is making all the right moves so far this year. I just can’t wait until the season starts.
Definiely
He is sending the right messages with all of his signings, coaching decisions and player evaluations and opportunitites. He’s drafted well, the team has played better, and that may strengthen our hand with free agent signings. Things are looking up!
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by Keith Quinn on Apr 12, 2011 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions
It's good to hear it.
Not shocking, but good to hear nonetheless. Now the only thing I have to hope for is that he has the ability to morph from a “we evaluating and sowing the seeds for the future” type of coach to a “it’s time for us to win” coach. He needs to be pissed after poor efforts from now on.
I think his comments regarding officials near the end of the year are a signal he’s going to do just that, but it’s not a given. Fingers crossed.
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by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Apr 12, 2011 10:54 AM EDT reply actions
now, if we can only get him to stop
being a DP apologist, we can maybe take this team over the hump…
and dont get me wrong, i’m not one of the people that thinks any of the other goalies deserves to start more than DP, but coming into next year, it should be made CRYSTAL clear, that the #1 job is up for grabs… remember folks, poulin has all of 10 games, and Al is under 30 i think, in context, it’s probably why ricky didnt take that question as seriously as he should… but anyway…
Cap’s comments about not wanting to pull rick in philly because he “needed the work” were ridiculous, the air that came out of the teams balloon after he let philly go BACK up 3-2 after they clawed back so evident it made me really really feel for the guys in front of DP. and it’s that mentality that is the only scary thing about having him behind the bench full time, most everything else i like about him…
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A different view on that
I didn’t think his comments were ridiculous at all — nor his “don’t care about the stats / just get him work” comments. To me it was the right thing to do: If DiPietro is supposed to be able to play at 100% right now, then there’s no better time to make him prove it than when the losses can’t hurt you any further.
Basically, if I were coach I’d want to be able to use the best goalie next year, and I would’ve wanted to use the garbage time down the stretch of this season to let DP show that, you know, maybe that isn’t him. Sadly, the months off with the facial fracture kind of ruined that time, but still.
I do hope it’s open competition for #1 next year though. While they could afford poor performances in goal this last month, they can’t afford them in October.
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well, my whole thing on that is
that it’s more of the company line, which maybe is fine in the case of the last (meaningless) game, but i want to start hearing a new company line, and the sooner the better…
I do hope it’s open competition for #1 next year though. While they could afford poor performances in goal this last month, they can’t afford them in October.
i forget, when was this again?
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by bob l on Apr 12, 2011 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Thats DP's season, "when he was playing", in a nut shell...
He wasn’t focused, he was slow, and he looked awkward…After watching Poulin in nets, doing splits and acrobatic saves, and then seeing DP after him, it was night & day…One guy looked like an athlete and the other guy looked like an unfit goalie or pilon…
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