Isles fire GM Snow,

Weight

Lou Lamoriello is wasting little time in decisively cleaning up the long-running mess with the Islanders.

The team’s new president of hockey operations announced he has relieved longtime general manager Garth Snow and head coach Doug Weight of their duties on Tuesday. Lamoriello, a three-time Stanley Cup winner as GM of the Devils, also will assume that title with the Isles, while beginning the search for a new coach immediately.

“We’ve had meetings and conversations certainly throughout the past two weeks since I’ve been here and it’s my opinion that at this point there’s a culture change that is needed and new voices needed in different areas,” Lamoriello said on a conference call. “And because of that the change was made… We would not have made that change if we didn’t feel that was the right thing to do.

The Islanders missed the playoffs eight times in Snow’s 12 years as GM since he unprecedentedly had been promoted from the team’s backup goalie to the front-office position when former Rangers GM Neil Smith resigned just 40 days into the job in July 2006. Last season marked the second in a row the Isles didn’t qualify for postseason play, largely negating their first playoff series victory since 1993 in 2016. In February, fans commissioned two billboards reading “Snow Must Go” outside Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Snow and Weight both will remain with the organization, although Lamoriello contended “there are not specific roles laid out” for them.

When asked about the remainder of the coaching and front-office staffs, which includes his son Chris as an assistant GM, Lamoriello said “at this point, everything is status quo.” As for the June 22 draft, in which the Islanders hold the 11th and 12th selections of the first round, Lamoriello added ‘that is in the hands of the scouts.”

Lamoriello, 75, was hired by owners Scott Malkin and Jon Ledecky — and granted “full authority over all hockey matters with the organization” — on May 21 after serving the past three seasons as GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He already has met with Isles captain and offseason priority John Tavares, who is slated to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.

“That certainly has not and did not enter into any of the decisions that have been made,” Lamoriello said of No. 91.

Weight took over on the Isles’ bench on an interim basis after Jack Capuano was fired on Jan. 17, 2017, leading them to a 24-12-4 mark to fall one point shy of a postseason berth. But the Isles slipped to a 35-37-10 mark in his first full season as head coach, allowing 296 goals, most in the NHL. — Peter Botte