In retrospect, perhaps I was a little too quick to gently and respectfully ask the Islanders to hire Gerard Gallant as soon as he was fired by the Florida Panthers on Sunday night.
With a day or so to digest what caused Gallant to pack his bags into a taxi on the way out of Raleigh’s PNC Arena, it seems he more or less adheres to the same old school hockey philosophy that the Islanders currently operate under.
That’s not to say Gallant is a bad coach or didn’t have the players ears.