Lou Lamoriello is an original. A single guy who walks with the historical giants of hockey. It belongs to the same sentence with Sam Pollock and Bill Torrey.
He created the powerful demons to his own image. He had a big hand to restore Arce’s leaves to respectability.
And for his third act, Lamoriello’s gravitas invested the image of the islanders as a laugh while generating the greatest success of the franchise when the dynasty came to an end four decades ago.
But Lamoriello is already there, as we hear it, losing a struggle of power for the operational partner and alternative governor John Collins in the representation of the property of Scott Malkin-Jon Ledecky that bleached more control control, at the height of the operation after winning.