MONTREAL — Garth Snow lost the summer, is losing the winter and if the Islanders’ general manager is unable to engineer a dramatic reversal of fortune for the NHL’s most disappointing outfit, then jobs will be lost, including his own.
That’s a fact. The Scott Malkin-Jon Ledecky ownership most assuredly did not sign on for this descent to the league’s nether regions that has brought with it a hastened return to irrelevance in the New York market, and Snow is canny enough to know that.
Ownership’s studious silence should not be mistaken for an endorsement. You might hear folks refer to the Islanders as a “.