‘Regier believed he got a raw deal in 1995, when Islanders ownership was looking for a general manager and overlooked him. Regier had been a good, hard, productive, respected worker for the organization for the better part of two decades. He was a direct heir of Bill Torrey and Al Arbour and he was working as the GM after Don Maloney was fired. Still, the management group chose coach Mike Milbury over Regier. There is a four-letter word for decisions like that one…’.