The expectation would be that team president Lou Lamoriello is bullish on the future of the Islanders. But when it came time to explain just exactly why, he immediately turned to one of the few people really above him in the organization.
“Very bullish, and I’ll start with one reason: Scott Malkin, the owner,” Lamoriello said at Monday’s breakup day.
Lamoriello had been lured by Malkin and his partner, Jon Ledecky, last summer to leave the Maple Leafs and run the Islanders, which they had taken over control of just a year earlier after a transition period from Charles Wang, who has since died.