Patrick Roy returns behind the NHL bench.
New York Islanders has fired his head coach For Lane Lambert.
Lambert's ear Patrick Roy.
Goaltending legend Roy, 58, most recently coached the QMJHL's Quebec Remparts. At the end of last season, he and his team celebrated both the QMJHL championship and the victory of the Memorial Cup, the final tournament of Canadian junior leagues.
The passionate French Canadian previously coached Colorado in the NHL for three seasons from 2013 to 2016. At that time, he won the Jack Adams Award for the best coach in the league in his rookie season.
As a player, Roy won the Conn Smythe award for the most valuable player in the playoffs no less than three times, which is an NHL record. He won four Stanley Cups, two in Montreal and two in Colorado.
Lambert coached the Islanders in his second season. Pesti was his first in the NHL as a chief pilot. Lambert's Finnish-Canadian nephew, who plays in the Winnipeg Jets organization Brad Lambert20, is one of Suomi-kieko's biggest promises.
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