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Getting To Know Scott Gordon
The Leafs have had a busy off-season. Before the draft, trading for Cody Franson, signing Tim Connolly and Clarke MacArthur, the Leafs have been expanding their league leading front office. One of the surprise moves was the firing of Tim Hunter and Keith Acton. The former because Ron Wilson has had...
Sunday Links and IIHF Supplemental Discipline For Hit On Radek Martinek
[Updated with IIHF rules and video support of headshot policy @10:40 AM EDT ] For those who missed yesterday's news from the world championships, Radek Martinek suffered a concussion and hematoma and will most likely miss the remainder of the world championships in Austria. [Fanshot Here]...
Roloson shutout; Capuano vs. Gordon through 20 games
This week's scriptwriting didn't end with Lawson getting to stop 28 shots in front of his family and friends. The guy whose departure gave Lawson an opening, Dwayne Roloson earned an OT shutout in his Lightning debut, giving the Lightning a slim division lead over the defeated Capitals, who were...
Islanders Gameday: Fun with coaching numbers
This isn't fair to either coach, but it's fun to look at anyway. Here is a basic numbers comparison of the Islanders in Scott Gordon's final eight games versus Jack Capuano's first eight games. As always, these figures exclude empty-net and shootout goals, which only make numbers even less...
Islanders Gameday: Prove-it Time for Comeau, Joensuu
This streak will end some day, but it has to end during this home stand to keep things from getting farcical. The Panthers, who started this 11-game winless streak almost a moon ago, provide a deceptively enticing opponent at 8-9-0. They're coming off a thorough beating from the Bruins though, so...
Lightning face a rebooting Islanders squad (preview)
WHERE: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, New YorkWHEN: 7 PM ESTMEDIA: Sun Sports (cable), 620 WDAE (radio) OPPONENT COVERAGE: Lighthouse Hockey Let me say ton thing about Scott Gordon's dismissal in New York after 17 games this season. He outlasted Barry Melrose's last coaching gig...
Do the Islanders Need to Shed a Culture of Losing?
The firing of Scott Gordon has brought about a wide spectrum of views from Islander fans. Usually when a coach is fired it seems to be a relatively popular decision with the fans. For a lot of people though, the problem was never with Gordon. So it's tough to find where the problem is in the...
Garth Snow's Immediate Goal: 'Get 2 points. Get our swagger back.'
I know interviews are generally popular, so I'll try to do them whenever I can -- it's just my schedule often prevents arranging times in advance. Example: I had the chance to talk to Islanders GM Garth Snow the day before the coaching change but couldn't get myself free. By the time we could...
Islanders Gameday: Debuting the Snows of Capuano
"...there, ahead, all he could see, as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun, was the square top of Kilimanjaro. And then he knew that there was where he was going." -Snows of Kilimanjaro The following table shows why last week I though that if Scott Gordon's...
Garth Snow on replacing fired Scott Gordon with Capuano: 'Jack knows our players'
Ten-game winless streaks breed discontent, and a coach in his walk year is a ripe and economical target, so the New York Islanders fired coach Scott Gordon and today announced Bridgeport Sound Tigers coach Jack Capuano as his interim replacement. Leading up to the firing, throughout Islanders...
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