I have ONE, and only ONE, goal for the Islanders and that is to win the Stanley Cup. Either you think snow could deliver that, or you don't. If you think that he could have under any circumstances, then you are darn right you disagree with my assessment of him.
Any GM, coach, player, or anyone else associated with my favorites teams I look at through this lens - Can they help bring my team a championship or no? With every last fiber of my being and beyond I know that snow is incapable of bringing any team a Stanley Cup and why I wanted him out a decade ago. I mean do you truly want the Isles to win a Cup or do you just want to have debates on these boards? Because I see no reason to discuss snow under any light other than - Can he win or not?
Well, the issue is really that the Isles were never going to win with Wang.
People keep saying that he never hired a real GM or Coach because he was cheap, but the truth is no one would ever work for him. There is less than zero chance that Lou and Trotz come here if Wang still owned the team.
So while Charles was in charge, the goal was never going to be win a Cup, that was impossible.
The goal was stabilize as much as you can. People forget how f***ed things started getting for Torrey once ownership stopped spending/caring. And while Milbury was an idiot, an equal amount of the blame falls on ownership.
Now was Snow going to turn this team into a cup contender, I don't know, because he never had a chance. But that shouldn't be the question...you should be asking could things have been worse?
In my eyes, the answer is f*** yeah...