It’s been a week since the gold medal game in Vancouver. Everyone has gone back to their pre-Olympic lives, including Islanders head coach Scott Gordon. I was lucky enough to catch Gordon in his office between practice and a 1:45pm team meeting to ask a few questions.
As an Islander fan, I was very proud to have our coach hand picked by hockey legend Brian Burke to be on the bench alongside the likes of Ron Wilson, even if it did mean sharing that bench with rival Rangers coach, John Tortorella. It was a trifecta of New England hockey, even if Wilson was born in Ontario and maintains dual citizenship. He grew up in Rhode Island, so it counts.
This was not the first time Scott Gordon was part of an Olympic team. He was on the 1992 squad in Albertville, France, where ...
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