Islanders head coach Barry Trotz of against the Los Angeles Kings at Barclays Center on Feb. 6, 2020. Credit: Jim McIsaac
Barry Trotz hears the firsthand accounts of battling COVID-19 from his Garden City neighbors who are health-care workers. The Islanders coach has no illusions as to how horrific the situation is in New York.
“It’s really strange times,” Trotz said Friday on an NHL-arranged video conference call that also included Florida Panthers coach Joel Quenneville and Edmonton Oilers coach Dave Tippett. “New York is right in the middle of it. It’s real. The rest of the country, maybe Canada, don’t realize how real this is.