Barry Trotz does not expect to cry when the Capitals play a video tribute to him Friday night in Washington, even though under the right circumstances the Islanders coach is not above shedding a few tears.
“I’m a softie,” he said before Thursday night’s game against the Devils at NYCB Live’s Nassau Coliseum. “I’ll cry during watching ‘The Notebook’ on TV when it’s on. I'm a very emotional-type guy.”
But when it comes to the Capitals, the team he led to the Stanley Cup in June, he got most of the nostalgia out of his system when the teams met at Barclays Center on Nov.