Islanders fire goalie coach Piero Greco 6 games into NHL season

The Associated Press

· Posted: Oct 22, 2025 6:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 22

The New York Islanders fired goaltending manager Piero Greco, making the alteration astatine an unorthodox clip conscionable six games into his seventh play with the squad and aft winning 3 successful a row.

General manager Mathieu Darche announced the abrupt determination Wednesday to portion ways with Greco and beforehand Sergei Naumovs from

Bridgeport of the American Hockey League.

Naumovs, who is Latvian, has been successful Bridgeport since May 2024 but has an extended past coaching franchise goalie Ilya Sorokin going backmost to their clip unneurotic with CSKA Moscow successful the KHL from 2018-20.

Sorokin's 3.90 goals-against mean is 2nd worst and .873 prevention percent ranks fourth-worst successful the NHL among netminders who person appeared successful astatine slightest 4 games.

"Piero has done a large occupation for the enactment for the past 7 years," Darche said. "We conscionable felt astatine this clip it was the close timing to person a reset with our goalies."

Darche said helium did not question input from Sorokin, who is successful the 2nd twelvemonth of a $66 cardinal US declaration that runs done 2032.

"It's my decision, it's not connected the player," Darche said. "I cognize he's had occurrence with Sergei, and that's wherever we went. It's 100 per cent my decision, and the goalie had thing to bash with it."

Darche added backup goaltender Semyon Varlamov continues to advancement toward a instrumentality from genu surgery.