![]() Milbury, the thinking went, was the perfect personality to instill that kind of scrappy attitude into the inexperienced group.Īnd, he was a marvelous choice to be the face of their massive rebranding effort, as the Islanders suddenly moved away from their classic blue and orange logo, featuring a map of Long Island and a hockey stick, to a menacing fisherman in a teal slicker and hat with a fierce, angry scowl painted across his face. The undermanned Islanders, just 15-28-5 in the lockout-shortened 1994-95 season (the second-worst record in the league), were going to have to scratch and claw if they were going to improve in 1995-96, with a young roster devoid of elite-level talent. This was a guy who was involved in some heated battles with those late 1970s and early 1980s Islanders during his playing days in Boston as a Bruins defenseman, and who once climbed into the stands during a gong show of a brawl and infamously beat a fan with his own shoe, for crying out loud. ![]() They fired coach Lorne Henning on after just one unproductive season, opening the door for Mike Milbury, then a 43-year-old hockey analyst with ESPN and someone well-known for his fiery demeanor both on and off the ice. Regarding the latter, the Islanders did make quite a splashy move. ![]() Something had to be done, and it had to involve more than just changes to the roster and coaching staff. ![]()
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