Let’s look at some of the biggest issues the New York Islanders have faced over the past eight years, and see how the GM diagnosed them. Then let’s see how he tried to solve them.
The first and most obvious was that he took over a barren shell of an organization. The team was mediocre and the pipeline was filled with flotsam. But it was also devoid of fan enthusiasm.
So when his inherited collection of misfits made a surprising run for a playoff spot in 2007, Snow cleared out his farm of guys he didn’t want (Ryan O’mara, Robert Nilsson, Alex Plante) and got himself a bonafide… pretty good player.