{"id":143876,"date":"2025-07-31T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/143876\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:45:10","slug":"patrick-roy-survived-islanders-changes-but-now-he-has-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/143876\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Roy survived Islanders changes, but now he has to change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/30\/sports\/winners-losers-from-the-start-of-islanders-mathieu-darche-era\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">winner of this Islanders summer<\/a>, aside from the club\u2019s emboldened marketing and social media teams, is Patrick Roy, and it\u2019s not a close call.<\/p>\n<p>Roy, who clashed with general manager Lou Lamoriello for much of last season, saw Lamoriello get fired and Mathieu Darche, a general manager far more open to his preferred play style, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/02\/sports\/islanders-gm-mathieu-darche-pulling-off-almost-impossible-task\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">get hired<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He got to take the lead in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/09\/sports\/islanders-hire-ray-bennett-bob-boughner-to-complete-coaching-staff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hiring Ray Bennett and Bob Boughner<\/a> as assistant coaches, replacing a pair of Lamoriello acolytes in John MacLean and Tommy Albelin. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll open camp in mid-September with a deeper roster that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/30\/sports\/matthew-schaefer-makes-his-islanders-intentions-clear-after-nhl-draft-whirlwind\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">includes No. 1 overall pick Matthew Schaefer<\/a> and with an organizational timeline that does not demand the Islanders immediately contend for a championship, but merely that they make the playoffs, or at least show serious development compared to the mess of a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest winner of this Islanders summer, aside from the club\u2019s emboldened marketing and social media teams, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5976,5,3521,122,2595,3328,159,5190,5189,4,2905,2541,43,336],"class_list":{"0":"post-143876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-anthony-duclair","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-inside-the-islanders","11":"tag-islanders","12":"tag-mathieu-darche","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-islanders","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkislanders","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-patrick-roy","19":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114947445585320045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}