""Today's players need a new kind of coach," Torrey explained. "The game isn't like it was in 1946 or 1956 or even 1966. You can't arbitrarily dictate to a player today. They have to understand why you want something done.""
""My first thought on coaching is that I want the players to know me and me to know them," he said via the New York Times. "There are some I don't know beeause they're much younger than. I am. I must have their respect. We want to build a team that acts well off the ice as well as on. I want gentlemanly personnel.""
Phil Goyette, the first head coach of the New York Islanders, died at 92. Bill Torrey named him to guide the 1972-73 expansion franchise and emphasized that modern players required a new coaching approach. Goyette faced expansion growing pains, was replaced midseason by Earl Ingarfield Sr., and finished with a 6-38-4 NHL coaching record. Born in Lachine, Quebec, he debuted with Montreal in 1956-57 and helped win four consecutive Stanley Cups in his first four seasons. Over a 16-year playing career with Montreal, the Rangers, Buffalo and St. Louis, he won the 1970 Lady Byng and recorded 674 regular-season points and 46 playoff points.
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