Lou Lamoriello’s entire NHL career has been built on creating team success, not individual success.
Yet the Islanders president and general manager received a huge personal accolade on Tuesday as he won the Jim Gregory Award as the NHL’s top GM for the second straight season. He became the first two-time recipient of the award, which was inaugurated in 2010 and renamed in 2019 for Gregory, the late Maple Leafs GM and NHL executive.
The Canadiens’ Marc Bergevin - a former Islander - and the Panthers’ Bill Zito were the other finalists.
Lamoriello joined the Islanders in 2018 after running the Devils from 1987-2015 and then serving as the Maple Leafs’ GM for three seasons.