Barry Trotz, from his first season with the Islanders, has always insisted Lane Lambert deserves to be an NHL head coach.
And perhaps this interim stint as Lambert fills in for Trotz, absent for personal reasons, will help again thrust him into the interview process when this season concludes. But the Islanders associate coach is not focused on what might happen.
"I don’t wonder about it at all," Lambert said after leading the Islanders’ practice on Tuesday at Northwell Health Ice Center in East Meadow. "The focus is right here, right now, as it always has been.