“Lookit.”
If Bill Torrey did not preface every sentence that way, it sure was pretty darn close.
“Lookit,” he would say as he did at a press conference in 1978, for instance, upon the announcement of the Islanders’ signing of a Swedish netminder named Goran Hogosta. “There’s no question that Hogie is a world-class goaltender and what that means for Chico [Resch] and Smitty [Billy Smith], we’ll have to see.”
Can’t win them all.
But for a time, and what a time it was, the Islanders of Bill Torrey and Al Arbour almost did win them all.