{"id":542350,"date":"2026-04-05T16:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542350\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:48:26","slug":"islanders-fire-patrick-roy-hire-peter-deboer-with-four-games-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542350\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders fire Patrick Roy, hire Peter DeBoer with four games left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With four games left in a season that has quickly turned into a sinking ship, Mathieu Darche did not wait to act.<\/p>\n<p>Darche stunningly fired coach Patrick Roy and hired Pete DeBoer as his replacement on Easter Sunday, hoping to give the Islanders a badly needed spark to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38997703\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/new-york-islanders-head-coach-125042620.jpg\" alt=\"New York Islanders head coach Patrick Roy walks off the ice.\" class=\"wp-image-38997703\"  \/>Patrick Roy is pictured after the Islanders\u2019 April 4 loss to the Hurricanes. Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38997708\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/islanders-main-1.jpg\" alt=\"Peter DeBoer is pictured during an Islanders game in May 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-38997708\"  \/>Peter DeBoer is pictured during an Islanders game in May 2025. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Roy, who has seemed out of answers in recent days, presided over a 3-7-0 stretch that saw the Islanders drop from a surefire playoff team to one that may need to win all of its remaining games to reach the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>DeBoer, who last coached the Stars in the NHL, was an assistant for Team Canada at the Olympics. <\/p>\n<p>He has been considered one of the top available coaching candidates all year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With four games left in a season that has quickly turned into a sinking ship, Mathieu Darche did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5,122,2595,3328,159,5190,5189,4,2905,2087,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-542350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-islanders","10":"tag-mathieu-darche","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-islanders","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkislanders","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-patrick-roy","17":"tag-pete-deboer","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116353127066832264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542350","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=542350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}