A two-and-a-half-hour NHL contest tends to be just a small portion of a coach’s typical game day, between meetings, morning skates, media sessions and analysis, video-related or otherwise.
Barry Trotz, in his first season as Islanders coach after four with the Capitals, including winning the Stanley Cup last season, and 15 previously with the Predators, is still adjusting to the commuter life on Long Island that takes him from the team’s practice facility in East Meadow to either Barclays Center in Brooklyn or Uniondale’s Nassau Coliseum.
He detailed his routine, which begins when he arrives at Northwell Health Ice Center at 6:30 a.