Islanders head coach Barry Trotz against the Kings at Barclays Center on Feb. 6. Credit: Jim McIsaac
Barry Trotz remained confident the Islanders would ultimately make the playoffs, even through an 0-3-4 skid that preceded the NHL putting the season on pause on March 12 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But the coach, with plenty of time now to reassess, knows there are ways he could have helped his team more.
“Twenty-twenty hindsight is always a great thing, but I would do a few things different,” Trotz told Newsday. “Maybe practiced, at different times, more, just because the group needed it.