Ten Years of New York Islanders summer rebuilding projects is quite a legacy for a GM. And like every person, at every job, General Managers have certain repeatable and predictable behaviors. We’re going to try and uncover some of Garth Snow’s.
First, just because something happened once, doesn’t make it a pattern. For instance, if you say, “Garth often acquires two top pair defensemen on the eve of training camp”, that would not be a pattern. That only happened once.
However, if you said, “When Garth thinks his defense is not up to snuff, he is unafraid to make multiple acquisitions in the weeks before breaking camp.