When the Islanders fired Jack Capuano in the middle of last season, the feeling in some quarters was that the high command had waited too long to pull the chute on Cappy.
As it happened, from the time Doug Weight metamorphosed from assistant GM/assistant coach into interim head coach, his club (24-12-4) had galloped to within a point of a playoff berth before missing the postseason.
From these facts one primary conclusion can be deduced: With Doug as head coach from the start of this 2017-18 season, the club should be playoff-worthy in his first new term.
