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Nolan Named VP of Operations In Rochester

by Paul on 07/01/09 at 11:48 AM ET
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from ROCnow,

Ted Nolan is back with the Rochester Americans as the vice president of hockey operations.

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Ted Nolan Returning To Coaching?

by Paul on 06/30/09 at 09:07 PM ET
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via the Sault Star,

Legendary Soo Greyhounds head coach Ted Nolan is expected to return to the hockey Wednesday, following the expiry of his contract with the NHL’s New York Islanders.

Nolan, a former Jack Adams Trophy winner as NHL coach of the year, was fired by the New York Islanders prior to the 2008-09 season.

Reached Tuesday, the 51-year-old native of Garden River refused to confirm that he would he signing with a new club, he said earlier this year that he would be free to do so as of Canada Day.

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Players Speak On Nolan Departure

by Paul on 07/15/08 at 10:07 AM ET
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from On the Islanders Beat,

“Snowy called me and told me what happened,” Sillinger said. “Quite frankly, I don’t know that there was any kind of tug-of-war. I didn’t spend the last half of the season with the guys because of my [hip] injury. The year before, we made the playoffs, and Ted did a great job. Obviously, this year we had a bunch of injuries.

“Garth told me they had philosophical differences. So be it. That’s his decision. It’s really unfortunate. Ted and I had a great relationship. I enjoyed playing for him. I guess you move on.”

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Too Much Ted

by Paul on 07/15/08 at 06:41 AM ET
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from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,

It became too much about Ted; became too much about Ted Nolan-type players. Every team can use the prototypical Nolan overachiever, but no team can progress from the bottom half of the league when more limited hard-hat players get their ice time at the expense of young, raw talents in need of nurturing.

The Islanders cannot attract prime free agents. They won’t even listen. The Islanders have no other choice. They must build from within. They also can choose not to trade down out of the first five in the Entry Draft - and once upon a time could have chosen to keep Roberto Luongo and Zdeno Chara - but these are different matters.

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Now What Islanders?

by Paul on 07/14/08 at 05:57 PM ET
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from Mike Brophy of the Hockey News,

The Islanders have become the team veteran players with nowhere else to play sign with. At the rate they are going, it will be years before they become a contender.

At least with Nolan behind the bench, they had a fighting chance.

There are plenty of quality coaches still walking the unemployment line – Pat Burns, Bob Hartley, Marc Crawford, Joel Quenneville and Paul Maurice amongst them – but even those guys will have to think long and hard before hitching their wagon to this mess.

As for Nolan? Don’t expect him to be out of work for too long. He is a proven winner, the kind of coach a team like, say, the Los Angeles Kings might want to hire as fast as humanly possible.

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added 6:02pm, from Stan Fischler at Game On,

The Maven wholeheartedly endorses Tortorella. He won a Cup; he’s got charisma and he can work with a GM as he proved with Jay Feaster in Tampa Bay. Perhaps the Isles will do what Jacques Martin has done in Florida; opt for a younger, successful Junior type.

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added 6:17pm, from the blog of Craig Custance of the Sporting News,

After reading Greg Logan’s Newsday blog that said the Islanders had fired Ted Nolan, I grabbed my cell phone and called Bob Hartley. Logan pointed out that Hartley was close with Islanders GM Garth Snow. Bob coached Garth Snow in Cornwall during the 1994-95 season.

Hartley to the Islanders seems like a good fit, and I can’t help but wonder if Snow joined me in calling Hartley today. If he did, hopefully he had better luck than I did reaching him (Hey Bob, call me back). Snow could do a lot worse than the former Thrashers and Avalanche coach.

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Ted Nolan Is Gone

by Paul on 07/14/08 at 12:35 PM ET
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from Greg Logan of Newsday,

The two-year marriage of inconvenience between Islanders general manager Garth Snow and coach Ted Nolan ended Monday. Irreconcilable differences over the direction of the franchise led to a mutual decision by Snow and Nolan, who met earlier Monday morning at Nassau Coliseum, to part ways.

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added 1:05pm, More on this at the Islanders website.

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Will Nolan Be Coaching The Islanders?

by Paul on 07/13/08 at 08:04 AM ET
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from Greg Logan of Newsday,

The relationship between Snow and Nolan was much better a year ago after the Islanders squeezed into the playoffs on the final day of the season. They pushed for the buyout of captain Alexei Yashin, and Nolan was a full participant with Snow in free-agent negotiations.

But this summer, Nolan was in the dark about Snow’s plan to trade down to take center Josh Bailey with the ninth overall pick. Bailey and Nolan’s son Jordan were teammates in the Ontario Hockey League last season, yet Nolan wasn’t consulted about the pick.

Asked if he had any input in the signing of veteran free agents Mark Streit and Doug Weight, Nolan said: “No. Garth and his scouting staff took care of all that. It comes right back to what I can control, and what I can control is my coaching.”

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Nolan Hopes To Fulfill His Contract

by Paul on 05/02/08 at 09:26 AM ET
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from the Sault Star,

He didn’t come out and say the words. But Ted Nolan didn’t have to.

His looks and body language said all you needed to know: Nolan’s future as head coach of the New York Islanders is far from certain. Having completed Season 2 of the three-year contract he signed in 2006, the 50-year-old native of Garden River will apparently enter the 2008-2009 NHL season as a lame duck bench boss.

“It’s a tough situation,” Nolan said Thursday, prior to serving as a guest speaker at the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships awards banquet at Steelback Centre. “But I’ve faced a lot of tough situations before. I just want to go into next season, concentrate on fulfilling my contract, do a great job and make sure I get another contract somewhere.”

Somewhere?

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Nolan Expected Back As Islanders Coach

by Paul on 04/10/08 at 05:06 PM ET
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from Greg Logan of Newsday,

Neither Wang nor Snow was happy with Nolan when he expressed some concern near the end of the season about going into the final year of his three-year contract without an extension. But when Snow was asked if there’s any reason to believe Nolan won’t return, he said, “I don’t see any reason. He’s our coach.”

Snow said he expects to sit down with Nolan within the next week to discuss the past season and what lies ahead. Snow blamed the Islanders’ failure to make the playoffs on “a handful of players who didn’t play to their capabilities” and the fact they led the NHL in man-games lost to injuries.

much more on the Islanders and go even deeper at On the Islanders Beat…

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No Extension Talks With Nolan

by Paul on 03/23/08 at 09:13 AM ET
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from Greg Logan of Newsday,

Nolan confirmed his contract situation yesterday. “They haven’t offered an extension,” Nolan said. “There hasn’t been a discussion of it.”

Contacted yesterday on a scouting trip in Ontario, general manager Garth Snow said he had no comment. Team spokesman Chris Botta, citing team policy, said the organization would have no comment on contract issues involving management.

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Play To The End

by Paul on 03/21/08 at 07:39 AM ET
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from Mark Herrmann of Newsday,

Nolan may have been more upset with his team this week than he has been all season. He issued a rare public rebuke after a desultory 3-1 loss to the Maple Leafs on Tuesday, then was displeased with them after a deliberately hard workout Wednesday.

“I told the players, ‘I don’t know how some of us can sleep at night - not doing what you do to the best of your capabilities.’ We’re compensated quite well, and the people who watch us pay quite heavily for us to do that,” he said after yesterday’s practice, which left him more encouraged.

“This isn’t Sunday lunch-hour hockey. We’re playing in the National Hockey League, the best league in the world,” he said. “For anybody to take that for granted and not to perform ...”

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Listen To Your Coach Rick

by Paul on 03/12/08 at 09:36 AM ET
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from Greg Logan of Newsday,

The situation between Nolan and his goaltender undoubtedly is the most sensitive right now. Michel Ouellet scored Tampa Bay’s first goal at 6:51 of the first period after DiPietro went behind his net to play the puck and gave it away to Jeff Halpern, who fed Ouellet for a shot on the open net.

“We ask him over and over again not to play the puck as much,” Nolan said of DiPietro. “He’s one of the best puck-handlers in the league, but you just can’t overhandle it. When you overhandle it, you get yourself in trouble a little bit."…

Showing his frustration, Nolan said of DiPietro: “The only thing you can do is keep going through it over and over again. You can’t do that. You’ve got to let our defense handle it a little bit more. He just wants to play it. What can you do?”

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Nolan Not Behind The Bench Today

by Paul on 02/18/08 at 02:45 PM ET
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via the AP,

New York Islanders coach Ted Nolan was not behind the bench at the start of Monday’s game against the San Jose Sharks because of what the team called a ‘’personal matter.’’

No other details were immediately available, and it was not known if Nolan would coach at all during the afternoon game.

update 3:00pm, Nolan behind the bench for the 2nd period.

added 3:21pm, Now Evgeni Nabokov. took a shot from the point right into the mask.  Looks like a possible nose, mouth injury and he has left the game.

added 3:37pm, Nabokov suffered a facial laceration, he may return for the 3rd period.

added 5:20pm, Nolan’s son Jordan plays for the Windsor Spitfires and Ted was speaking with his son about the sudden death of Mickey Renaud.

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Nolan No Longer Needs To Prove Anything

by Paul on 02/01/08 at 10:42 PM ET
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from George Vescey of the New York Times,

Hardly a day goes by that Ted Nolan does not open the refrigerator door, just to stare at the shelves stocked with food.

“I’d wake up in the morning and the house would be cold,” Nolan recalled of his childhood, without running water, on an Indian reserve in Ontario.

“I’d take a piece of fried bread, a galette, and put it in my pocket and go to school,” he added.

The sense of being an outsider still drives Nolan, 49, the coach of the Islanders, whose mystique includes nine full seasons without a job in the National Hockey League, amid rumors that he was blackballed.

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Nolan Upset With Campbell Remark

by Paul on 12/20/07 at 09:53 AM ET
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from On the Islanders Beat,

Asked about Simon’s agreement with Islanders owner Charles Wang to seek counseling in an effort to understand what made him snap for the second time in nine months after hitting the Rangers’ Ryan Hollweg with his stick in March, Campbell was recorded saying he hoped it would help Simon to meet with “the drug and alcohol, uh, uh, those doctors.” NHL spokesman Frank Brown quickly clarified that the doctors who deal with substance abuse under the NHL/NHLPA agreement also handle behavioral issues.

But the “stereotyping” horse was out of the barn. The gut reaction of Islanders coach Ted Nolan, who described Campbell’s assumption as “sickening” was understandable.

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Find Something Else To Complain About

by Paul on 11/05/07 at 12:49 PM ET
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from Jim Baumbach of Newsday,

But I have a hard time accepting the fact that Arbour gets credit for the game and the win when his presence was completely ceremonial. In baseball there is a rule that limits the number of coaches who are in uniform in the dugout during the game, but I skimmed through the NHL record books and I couldn’t find a similar rule....

There was nothing wrong with having an Al Arbour night and putting him behind the bench for the 1,500th time with the Islanders. Everyone there still would have had a blast. But let’s stop fooling ourselves. In my record books, I’m crediting Ted Nolan with the win.

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Wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning Jim? 

This was not a PR stunt, but was actually suggested by Coach Nolan.  Hockey honors their past greats, and it will continue to do so, with or without your record book.

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