{"id":51981,"date":"2020-08-22T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-mastery-of-lou-lamoriello\/"},"modified":"2020-08-22T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T19:26:00","slug":"the-mastery-of-lou-lamoriello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-mastery-of-lou-lamoriello\/","title":{"rendered":"#The mastery of Lou Lamoriello"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a43adbd0a017\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a43adbd0a017\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-mastery-of-lou-lamoriello\/#Vacs_Whacks\" >Vac\u2019s Whacks<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-mastery-of-lou-lamoriello\/#Whack_Back_at_Vac\" >Whack Back at Vac<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The mastery of Lou Lamoriello<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        This was, somehow, more than 20 years ago, and Lou Lamoriello had just done one of the most difficult things he\u2019s ever had to do as a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> manager.<\/p>\n<p>The Devils were scuffling, badly. They had developed a troubling reputation for being a team that could win an awful lot of regular-season <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s and then, like clockwork, incur a paralyzing case of postseason stage fright.<\/p>\n<p>And it was h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening again. The regular season had just eight games left, but the Devils were already moving into the tuck position. They\u2019d dominated both the Atlantic Division and the Eastern Conference all year but lately had gone 5-10-2 and put everything they\u2019d worked for in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>So Lamoriello made a stunning decision:<\/p>\n<p>He fired Robbie Ftorek, his coach and a longtime loyal member of the organization. He replaced Ftorek with Larry Robinson, once a popular assistant with the team but already a failed head coach with the Kings. It seemed preposterous to make such a move, at such a time.<\/p>\n<p>I told that to Lamoriello when I reached him in his hotel that day \u2014 ironically (as things have worked out), it was the Long Island Marriott, next to the Nassau Coliseum, where the Devils were to play the Islanders. The Devils were about to be folded under the umbrella of the old YankeeNets merger, and Lamoriello was about to go to work for George Steinbrenner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou borrowed a page from his handbook,\u201d I said to him.<\/p>\n<p>Lamoriello actually laughed at that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can see why you might say that,\u201d he said, \u201cbut you\u2019re wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16177107\"><img alt=\"Lou Lamoriello\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Lou Lamoriello<\/span><span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then he said something that has stuck with me for 20 years, maybe the wisest and most prescient thing a GM has ever said to me, one that explains so much about what Lamoriello has done in a career that, one more time starting Monday, takes him into an extended NHL postseason run, now with the Islanders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m gonna be damned,\u201d Lamoriello said, \u201cI\u2019m gonna be damned for doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let that be a credo for all GMs, for all teams, and let Lamoriello\u2019s record stand as a testament that if you are smart enough, organized enough, daring enough, confident enough, then anything is possible. Hiring Robinson was a genius stroke, of course. The Devils only went 4-4 the rest of the way and blew the No. 1 seed, but then they went on a two-month tear through the playoffs and won the second of Lamoriello\u2019s three Stanley Cups.<\/p>\n<p>In the locker room after Game 6 in Dallas that June, I saw Lamoriello and I quoted him back to himself and he laughed. \u201cYou didn\u2019t believe me three months ago, did you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was probably true. It was also the last time I doubted Lamoriello, and the reality that good leadership, smart leadership, can overcome a wealth of woes. The Islanders of Lamoriello and Barry Trotz are simply reinforcing the notion. If you are a well-run operation, if you do things properly and with a sense of purpose, anything is possible.<\/p>\n<p>Lamoriello is the extreme example of this. He is a hockey guy, yes, but once he moved into leadership with YankeeNets, he also oversaw two improbable <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s to the NBA Finals for the Nets. He got a corporate taste of the 2000 championship Yankees. Back in 1985, when he was still athletic director at Providence, he\u2019d taken a chance on an assistant coach for the Knicks named Rick Pitino, and all that happened then was the Friars rising in two years from Big East doormat to the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>Good leadership transcends boundaries, and it even transcends sports. I\u2019ve said through the years \u2014 and I mean it still \u2014 that any team, in any sport, could hire Lamoriello and succeed because he isn\u2019t just a great manager of hockey teams, he\u2019s a great manager, period. People listen to him. They perform for him. His career is a testament of hope to all teams mired in mediocrity: You hire the right guy, you have a shot.<\/p>\n<p>At 77, this is probably Lamoriello\u2019s last shot, this Islanders team, and it\u2019s a joy to watch. Someday we\u2019ll have another of his like in our midst, an heir to his mastery of leadership. One of our teams will find that man (or woman). And that\u2019ll be some kind of fun, too, because undoubtedly they\u2019ll be willing to be damned for doing.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Vacs_Whacks\"><\/span>Vac\u2019s Whacks<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>If the start of the NBA playoffs have reinforced anything, it is this: Utah\u2019s Quin Snyder is, at the moment, the very best coach in the league. And the Jazz are a blast to watch.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>You can sure spend a lot of time torturing yourself as a Knicks fan if you choose \u2014 thinking about how possible it was for Kristaps Porzingis, Donovan Mitchell and Michael Porter Jr. to be on the team right now. But, then, why do that to yourself?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>There are few things in sports that are more enjoyable right now than watching Gio Urshela field his position at third base for the Yankees.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>The only bad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> with the Islanders moving on (and up, to network-only TV coverage) is that Brendan Burke and Butch Goring won\u2019t be moving on with them. They\u2019ve been as terrific as their team in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Whack_Back_at_Vac\"><\/span>Whack Back at Vac<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Jay Taikeff<\/strong>: Pleasant surprise to see your opinion-page column Friday. Someday soon there will be a vaccine, and depending on its effectiveness, get ready for a new column; Vac Whacks Vacc or Vac Backs Vacc. We\u2019re rooting for the latter.<br \/><\/br><strong>Vac<\/strong>: Yes, we are, Jay. Yes, we are.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p><strong>Martin Carus<\/strong>: Why any draft? Let it be an open market. Why should failures effectively get subsidized? Big-market teams will dominate small market ones? (Ha, the Mets!) (Double-A, the Rays.) Success should be rewarded; failure should require accountability and consequences.<br \/><\/br><strong>Vac<\/strong>: This would certainly do away with folks griping that every lottery is fixed.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p><strong>@BJFinLA<\/strong>: Loving August hockey. Actually in \u201cnormal\u201d season, MLB is about 20 games deep when NHL has their quarterfinals.<br \/><\/br><strong>@MikeVacc<\/strong>: So we\u2019re getting a little slice of normalcy in addition to a fun run from a fun Islanders team. Sign me up for more!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p><strong>Doug Heimowitz<\/strong>: My three-step plan to combat tanking: 1) Each non-playoff team misses gets one ping-pong ball for every win (Knicks at 30-52 get 30; Nets at 20-62 get 20). 2) Top three picks are determined this way. Then, the teams pick fourth on down in order of regular season record. The worst team in the league gets, worst case, the fourth pick. 3) Every team now has incentive to win every game hence no more tanking.<br \/><\/br><strong>Vac<\/strong>: I like it.\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Sports News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/22\/the-mastery-of-islanders-gm-lou-lamoriello\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#The mastery of Lou Lamoriello&#8221; This was, somehow, more than 20 years ago, and Lou Lamoriello had just done one of the most difficult things he\u2019s ever had to do as a general manager. 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