New York Islanders
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4 hours agoMathieu Darche has tied his future to Peter DeBoer's success
The New York Islanders fired head coach Patrick Roy and hired Peter DeBoer, signaling a shift in their playoff ambitions.
"When he first came out with his Young Guns card, there was a huge amount of people that were joining into the hobby just to start collecting. And I think that was one of the earlier times that I had seen that happen where people that weren't collecting before really started to join in because they saw how good of a player that he was and wanted to be part of that history."
They're a better team than people think. Look at their game, before they played us last game, they had just lost in overtime against Dallas. They're in the game every night. Before the break, they had a hell of a stretch where they were in the game all the time. They can skate, they have size, and their goaltending is really good, so they're in the game every night, so you need to be as close as possible to perfection.