{"id":243820,"date":"2025-10-22T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243820\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:25:10","slug":"islanders-fire-goalie-coach-piero-greco-six-games-into-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243820\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders fire goalie coach Piero Greco \u2014 six games into season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Islanders made it just six games into the season before making a change to their coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>Director of goaltending Piero Greco was let go Wednesday morning and replaced by Sergei Naumovs, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman first reported the news.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.46915352;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37451002\" width=\"867\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2013578576.jpg\" alt=\"Islanders head coach Patrick Roy (l.) with goalie coach Piero Greco (r.) in 2024.\" class=\"wp-image-37451002\"  \/>Islanders head coach Patrick Roy (l.) with goalie coach Piero Greco (r.) in 2024. NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Greco, who had been with the Islanders since 2017 and worked for the Leafs while Lou Lamoriello was GM prior, was promoted to his current role last season.<\/p>\n<p>That was also when Naumovs, who worked with Ilya Sorokin in Russia, was brought in as the goalie coach for AHL Bridgeport.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sorokin has struggled at the start of this season, allowing four goals in each of his first four starts, but Tuesday night\u2019s 4-3 win over San Jose was the best he\u2019s played so far.<\/p>\n<p>He turned aside 33 shots and was given the Islanders\u2019 Iron Man mask, which is awarded within the locker room to the team\u2019s best player after a win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islanders made it just six games into the season before making a change to their coaching staff.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[389,394,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-243820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ilya-sorokin","9":"tag-new-york-islanders","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}