Friday\u2019s damaging 4-1 home loss to the Flyers<\/a> in which the Islanders got off to a sluggish start, leaving Roy to admit he needed to do a better job in having his team ready to play.<\/p>\n\u201cSometimes you just make sure you say a few words in the room after the meeting,\u201d Roy said in response to Newsday asking him what more he thought he could do. \u201cI thought the team was ready to play a strong game and I could have done a better job approaching the guys and saying a few things. That was an important game for us. They\u2019re all going to be important games, no kidding. I just feel like I could have done a better job, period.\u201d<\/p>\n
DeBoer, 57, has an overall coaching record of 662-447-152 in 1,261 games over 17 NHL seasons with Dallas, the Vegas Golden Knights, San Jose Sharks, New Jersey Devils\u00a0and Florida Panthers. He led the Stars to the Western Conference final in each of his three seasons in Dallas.<\/p>\n
But DeBoer came under fire in last season\u2019s conference final after pulling goalie Jake Oettinger after he allowed two goals on two shots in the opening 7:09 of a deciding 6-3 loss to the Oilers in Game 5.<\/p>\n
Still, he ranks 18th in NHL history in coaching wins and 22nd with 1,261 games coached. He led both the Devils (2012) and Sharks (2016) to the Stanley Cup Final, losing to the Kings and Penguins, respectively.<\/p>\n
His teams are 9-0 in Game 7s, giving him the most Game 7 wins in NHL coaching history.<\/p>\n
Now he becomes the 20th coach in Islanders history and, significantly, the first Darche has hired after former president\/GM Lou Lamoriello brought in Roy.<\/p>\n
DeBoer’s mandate is twofold: First, get the Islanders\u00a0into the playoffs. Darche showed he believed the Islanders were playoff-worthy by sending a first-round pick to the Blues on March 6 as part of the package for second-line center Brayden Schenn. Second, DeBoer will be in charge of integrating some of the Islanders\u2019 prospects such as Victor Eklund and perhaps Cole Eiserman\u00a0into the lineup over time. And succeeding with the new talent.<\/p>\n
It was a task Roy, 60, was eagerly anticipating.<\/p>\n
But the Hall of Fame goalie, who backstopped the Canadiens to two Cups and the Avalanche to two more, ends his tenure on Long Island having coached just one full season after taking over for the fired Lane Lambert on Jan. 20, 2024. He guided the Islanders to a 20-12-5 record that season as they qualified for the playoffs but were eliminated in five games by the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n
They missed the playoffs at 35-35-12 last season and Roy was 97-78-22 overall with the Islanders after going 130-92-24 over three seasons \u2014\u00a0and one playoff appearance \u2014\u00a0with the Avalanche from 2013-16.<\/p>\n
Following Saturday\u2019s discouraging loss, defenseman Ryan Pulock was asked whether Roy\u2019s message was still getting through to the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, 100%,\u201d Pulock said. \u201cHe believes in us and we believe in him.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Darche was the final arbiter. And now the GM has thrown his belief to DeBoer.<\/p>\n
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\n\tAndrew Gross joined Newsday in 2018 to cover the Islanders. He began reporting on the NHL in 2003 and has previously covered the Rangers and Devils. Other assignments have included the Jets, St. John\u2019s and MLB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Roy couldn\u2019t survive the Islanders\u2019 slide. As a result, it\u2019s now veteran NHL coach Pete DeBoer\u2019s job…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-542904","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-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-islanders","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkislanders","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116354762513901480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542904","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=542904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}