Newsday · Nov 11, 2018
Florida Panthers honor Bill Torrey before game against Islanders
Bill Torrey, the former GM of the Islanders. Photo Credit: Newsday/V. Richard HaroSUNRISE, Fla. – The late Bill Torrey may have identified himself more with the Panthers once he joined the organization as president in 1993, but he never stopped watching the Islanders.
“He’d been with the Panthers for 25 years, he wanted to see hockey succeed here so badly,” the Hall of Fame NHL executive’s son, Rich Torrey, told Newsday. “Out of the side of his eye, the whole time here, he always watched the Islanders. The surroundings of how he ended up leaving them were painful. I don’t know if he ever really got over it.”