Katie Strang from Newsday announced on her Twitter the Islanders hired Sean Donnelan as their new Director of Sports Performance. Donnelan's main job will be to try and lower the amount of injuries compared to the past two seasons. Donnelan also told Strang he expects to make big changes to help accomplish this.
This is Donnelan's second stint with the team. He worked with the Islanders from 1996-2003.
CH: This is obviously not huge news, but it is good to see the Isles trying to be proactive about preventing injuries. So much of the teams success depends on the health of the roster, especially on the defense and in net. Certainly, the Isles did not have to add a position to try and accomplish a potential decrease, so they should get credit for the proactivity. Let's hope Donnelan can come in and make the changes he envisions to help mitigate the team's extremely high numbers of "man games lost." If he can, the Isles will be better off for it.
AT: Just goes to show you that even with the pursuit of a top 4 d-man supposedly still on, the Islanders are making the right moves everywhere. Well, at least on the ice and not in the jersey department. After so many man games lost last year, you really had to think there was a piss poor job going on keeping players safe and healthy. Two shoulder injuries that required major surgeries for both is nothing to push to the side. We saw what a huge loss the Islanders took after losing both Streit and Okposo, so to take a necessary step like this to at least attempt to prevent a re-occurrence is very assuring to the fanbase. Now let's get everyone healthy through training camp.
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