Islanders general manager Lou Lamoriello speaks with the media at Northwell Health Ice Center on May 6, 2019. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
Lou Lamoriello has been a hockey coach and/or executive for more than a half-century, but he never has experienced anything quite like this. No one has.
“It’s a learning process every day,” the Islanders’ president of hockey operations said Monday on a conference call with reporters. “It’s something totally different. It’s almost like going to a movie that you felt would never happen.”
“It,” of course, is the COVID-19 pandemic that caused the NHL to “pause” its season on Thursday, with no firm idea when or if it will resume.