Chris Nichols of FRS Hockey: Elliotte Friedman was on Sportsnet 650 and was talking about the Islanders situation.
Friedman notes that Lou Lamoriello and Garth Snow get along really well. Doug Weight has only been the head coach for a year and they may not want to make a change so quickly. Scott Stevens has a tendency to follow Lamoriello and the Islanders problem last year was their blue line – spitballing that it might be a possibility.
There are some teams that are really mad about Lamoriello talking to Tavares before he was officially hired according to Friedman, but “we’ve always known there’s a set of rules for Lou Lamoriello, and there’s a set of rules for everybody else,” chuckled Friedman.