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Islanders Part Ways With Coach Jack Capuano; Could GM Garth Snow Soon Follow?

The Islanders yesterday fired coach Jack Capuano, the "first strike of accountability" from the club's new majority owners, according to Brett Cyrgalis of the N.Y. POST. Islanders GM Garth Snow "long had been a supporter of Capuano since he hired him" in '10, but "undoubtedly felt the pressure from above after Jon Ledecky and Scott Malkin took the reins as majority owners this past summer" (N.Y. POST, 1/18). On Long Island, Arthur Staple notes Capuano was the "fourth-longest tenured coach in the NHL." But on Saturday the Isles were "strafed, 7-4, by the Hurricanes in Raleigh" with Ledecky "sitting in a booth alongside Snow." That was "likely the final straw for Capuano" (NEWSDAY, 1/18). The N.Y. DAILY NEWS notes the decision to fire Capuano "comes two months after Snow said he had no plans to dismiss the coach, who had been hearing chants of 'Fire Cappy' during home games" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 1/18). Newsday's Staple tweeted of the team reportedly talking to former Panthers coach Gerard Gallant about the vacancy, "Permission to speak was requested before Capuano was fired. ... Highly doubt Garth Snow would undermine his coach by interviewing candidates before the ax fell. Certainly could be, but not his style." MSG Networks' Shannon Hogan: "Capuano was always respectful and kind to me. I really enjoyed working with him." NHL.com's Brian Compton: "Capuano is 100% all class."

UPDATING THE BLUEPRINT: On Long Island, Mark Herrmann writes Snow "knows how it works." Once the coach has been dispatched, the GM is "on the thinnest ice." The Isles "need an updated blueprint and a broader vision." Maybe Ledecky and Malkin "truly believe in Snow." Maybe they inherited former Isles Majority Owner Charles Wang’s "utter faith" in the GM, or maybe there is a "huge buyout provision in the contract Snow signed with Wang." Ledecky and Malkin "ought to realize that the Islanders need more players and they need someone who can find and sign them" (NEWSDAY, 1/18). The Toronto Sun's Steve Simmons alluded to Snow, tweeting, "Jack Capuano didn't draft Reinhart over Rielly, didn't take DalColle over Nylander, Ehlers and Larkin, didn't mishandle Niederreiter."

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