Patrick Roy breaks silence after the latest defeat and reveals it all

The story out of Long Island isn't just that Roy was dismissed. It's that he saw the breakdown coming and said it out loud before the Islanders made their move.

Two days before he was shown the door, Roy took a big share of the shame after a 4-1 defeat to the Philadelphia Flyers. He admitted the team wasn't ready and put that on himself.

That game was ugly from puck drop. The Islanders went down 2-0 in the first period and didn't record a shot on goal for the first 13 minutes.

Roy even had to burn an early timeout just to try to wake up his bench. For a coach known for intensity, that was a bad look and a loud signal.

Then came another hit. The Islanders lost 4-3 to the Carolina Hurricanes the next night and managed only 16 shots.

This wasn't only about two losses. The club had dropped 4 straight and went 3-7 over its last 10, which turned the pressure all the way up inside that room.

At the time, the Islanders still sat third in the Metropolitan Division with 89 points. That standing didn't calm anything because the slide was already exposing the team's structure.

The biggest concern centered on Sorokin. The belief inside the organization was that their top goaltender was being exposed too often behind a loose defensive setup.

That matters because when a team starts worrying about the crease before the playoffs, every other issue gets magnified. Breakdowns on the blue line, slow starts, and weak five-on-five details suddenly become front-office business.

And that's where this turned fast. ESPN's Emily Kaplan reported the Islanders wanted to move quickly on Peter DeBoer before another team got there this summer.

That detail says everything about Roy's final days. The Islanders weren't waiting for one more bounce-back game or one more speech behind the bench. They had already decided the current structure wasn't going to hold.

Roy's honesty didn't save him, but it did explain the ending. He owned the slump, and in the end, the Islanders decided ownership of the mess wasn't enough.