During the offseason, the Islanders re-signed defenseman Andy Greene, which allowed them to bring back every key skater from the team that lost to the Lightning in the 2020 Eastern Conference Final and added rookie Ilya Sorokin as the backup goalie to Semyon Varlamov.
“I think you look at his track record, it speaks for itself,” Zajac said.
In 34 seasons as a GM with the Islanders, Toronto Maple Leafs and Devils, Lamoriello has won the Stanley Cup three times , and his teams have reached the playoffs 26 times.
He was GM for the United States team that won the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, the first that featured NHL players.
The NHL General Manager of the year Award, which was first presented in 2009-10, was renamed in 2019-20 in honor of Jim Gregory, the 2007 Hockey Hall of Fame inductee who was Maple Leafs GM and an NHL executive for four decades.
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