Trotz resigned from the Capitals on Monday
Barry Trotz has been named head coach of the New York Islanders.
President of hockey operations Lou Lamoriello announced the move today — two weeks after Trotz won the Stanley Cup with the Washington Capitals and three days after he resigned from that job.
Trotz reportedly agreed to a five-year deal worth double what he would have made annually on a shorter contract with the Capitals.
In the past 40 years, Trotz is just the fifth coach not to return to a Stanley Cup-winner and the first since Scotty Bowman retired after winning with Detroit in 2002.
— with files from The Canadian Press