{"id":559730,"date":"2026-04-26T05:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/559730\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T05:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:12:16","slug":"the-ny-islanders-have-relieved-benoit-desrosiers-of-his-assistant-coaching-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/559730\/","title":{"rendered":"The NY Islanders have relieved Benoit Desrosiers of his assistant coaching duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5n\">When the NY Islanders relieved Patrick Roy of his duties as head coach of the NY Islanders, it was expected that more moves behind the bench were imminent. Tonight, another domino has fallen, as the organization has let go of Assistant Coach Benoit Desrosiers.<\/p>\n<p>Islanders fire Benoit Desrosiers<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5t\">Shortly after Roy was hired, taking over the coaching reins from Lane Lambert, Desrosiers was Roy&#8217;s first addition to the coaching staff. Desrosiers has been a protege of Roy since he was 28, serving as an assistant coach for Roy with the Quebec Remparts of the QMJHL from 2013-17. Before the 2023-24 season, Desrosiers was named head coach of the Gatineau Olympiques, a position he vacated upon his hiring by the Islanders.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">News: Isles have confirmed that Benoit Desrosiers is out as an assistant coach<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ethan Sears (@ethan_sears) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethan_sears\/status\/2047821503589232811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5z\">One of Desrosier&#8217;s responsibilities with the Islanders was his expertise in the face-off dot. This past season, the Islanders finished fifth in the NHL in FO%, winning 52.6% of draws. <a href=\"https:\/\/eyesonisles.com\/grading-islanders-forwards-25-26-season-01kpw8c2j65e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bo Horvat, JG Pageau, and Casey Cizikas<\/a>, all of whom spent the majority of the season playing center, thrived under Desrosiers, each going at least 54.7% in the dot.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"62\">There is still no news regarding the futures of Ray Bennett and Bob Boughner and their roles as assistant coaches. Peter DeBoer and Bob Boughner have a history together, as Boughner served as an assistant under DeBoer with the San Jose Sharks, taking over head coaching duties on an interim basis after DeBoer&#8217;s firing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"65\">With the addition of a new head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/eyesonisles.com\/cole-eiserman-has-been-showing-he-s-more-than-just-a-goal-scorer-since-signing-with-the-ny-islanders-01kpv3f0qpbz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">typically comes change<\/a>. Desrosiers won&#8217;t be back behind the bench with the Islanders next season, and we&#8217;ll see if there are more moves to come.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow eyesonisles.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=eyesonisles.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the NY Islanders relieved Patrick Roy of his duties as head coach of the NY Islanders, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559731,"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-559730","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\/116469297984342738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559730","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=559730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}