Barzal indéfiniment
#Isles Injury Update: Mat Barzal is out indefinitely with a lower body injury.
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) February 20, 2023
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nothing_but_static
Barzal indéfiniment
#Isles Injury Update: Mat Barzal is out indefinitely with a lower body injury.
— New York Islanders (@NYIslanders) February 20, 2023
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nothing_but_static
39 Comments
god dammit
This is far from ideal
Indefinitely is the worst word we could have heard. If it was less serious they would be calling it day to day. Playoff hopes officially dead
Sell sell sell!
is it too late to be in the battle for Bedard
Wow, really reminds you how thin the margin for error was this season and how stupid it was to trade yet another first round pick and your top prospect away.
At least we can be sure the pick won’t convey this year. But Horvat will keep the season from collapsing into the tank. So we won’t even get a good draft pick out of it. Wonderful.
Time to sell. Hope we can finish in the bottom 12 this season and keep our pick bc we definitely aren’t making it now
I hate Lou Lamoriello medical updates. Indefinitely means the season but it would be nice to know what happened. It’s not really a good look when we get an update months after the fact like in Wahlstroms case where people happened to see him in the press box looking like he just had surgery.
Does anyone with any kind of background in medicine/sport science have any clue what the injury was based on that hit? To me I didn’t see any weird bends or anything like you see with a torn ACL. Could it be just a really bad contusion?
it’s joever
That’s a wrap. Just fucking sucks man. Sell what we can and retool.
Puts on the season
Hey at least now he can’t turn the puck over in the Ozone during key points in the game
It’s Bover
Trade Varly, Mayfeild and whatever you can. try to recoup some assets and re-tool in the summer.
Sonuvabitch
NOOO! I was going to see him play on wednesday!
I think it’s time to reset the xbox and start the season over
Trade everyone who isn’t locked up long term/isn’t over the age of 23
Well, at least I can stop caring about this season now I guess… come back strong next season boys
Season is over, makes the move for Bo look even dumber now
Even if we would have looked good the past couple of weeks we wouldn’t be able to survive any playoff series without Barzal. So now it’s either sell it all or place Barzal on LTIR and go for a big trade.
Ahhh god damnit
Well shit
The next few weeks will either include selling off pending UFAs, or Lou making a batshit crazy trade to acquire an overpaid rental with Barzy’s cap space.
Or he just sticks with the current group because « he believes in this team ». I honestly don’t know which of the 3 I expect.
Guys, FYI Pierre Lebrun just tweeted that it is week to week and the Isles plan on Barzal being back sometime this year. So that’s good news.
Wait I didn’t watch the Boston game wtf happened?
Too late to tank for Bedard but I would agree to try and be sellers now.
Retool around a first line of Barzal, Horvat and Wally (or other if traded for).
I think a serious look at trading Nelson and Varly is needed. Nelson because they can get a lot for him and Varly because the goalie market at the deadline is VERY thin and teams like Seattle and LA desperately need it.
Pack it in, sell some pieces and re tool
It’s been an honor, gentlemen.
It was pretty awesome almost getting to the cup twice
They updated it to week to week, but one week minimum. Expected back this season. Maybe 2 weeks total hopefully.
welp…LGM i guess
I’m a pretty optimistic guy when it comes to sports (it doesn’t feel good to be pessimistic so I choose to be delusional when it comes to this thing that ultimately doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things), but that’s about the final nail in the coffin for me. Here’s to a better 2023-24 next season
Ok Mr. Horvat. Let’s see what you can do and replace our best offensive player. That is why Lou got you. You were a team captain at Vancouver and you were a good player. Time to show on the Island.
There’s a difference between the fat lady singing and really belting out a tune. This is the latter.
Awful.
On the bright side, this’ll force Lou’s hand to sell. We were already in a really tough situation, so at least we’ll be able to recoup some assets instead of sitting still and letting folks like Varly and Mayfield go for nothing.
FML. BLOW IT THE FUCK UP!
I have a feeling Isles go on a big run through March