Ainsi, pendant une crise d’insomnie, j’ai commencé à vraiment m’intéresser à Capfriendly et à la situation actuelle des Islanders. J’ajouterai le lien à la fin pour ceux qui aimeraient voir les chiffres que je regarde. Certaines de mes pensées « groggy/endormi » sont les suivantes. – Je ne suis pas contre la stratégie des contrats à long terme si nous pensons que les joueurs dont nous disposons sont ceux qui porteront leurs fruits. Je pense qu’il y en a quelques-uns que nous devons vraiment examiner de près. JG en fait partie. Palmieri et Nelson également, mais il s’agirait probablement de davantage d’accords commerciaux à date limite. – Créons-nous une nouvelle ligne d’identité sachant que je doute que Martin et Clutterbuck soient résignés. – Je sais que je me moque en quelque sorte des fans des Leafs parce qu’ils sont très lourds, mais nous ne sommes pas en meilleure forme. – Nous semblons être solides comme gardien de but et notre meilleure paire D, ce qui constitue une base fantastique pour l’avenir. – Nous avons quelques décisions RFA à prendre… Wahlstrom est probablement la personne clé éligible à l’arbitrage. Alors, sans prétendre que nous jouons à NHL24 et que nous obtenons Crosby et Ovi pour un sac de rondelles, que voulons-nous voir à l’avenir ? https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/islanders
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clebo99
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Clutter and Martin ride off into the sunset as isles legends. Replace with MacLean and Fasching. We still need an identity line of speed and size and i think them plus Casey could do it well.
Pageau needs to come back to his old self or make him a trade piece for either a solid D man or another 3rd line piece.
Palmieri could also be a trade piece but given his contract ending in 2025 might be worth it to give the italian stallion one more go and send him off to the same farm as Martin and Clutter.
Im of the mind that I dont want to move any prospects like Maggio and Ishlakov. Id rather see what they can do here for a year or two before blindly shipping them away. Plus, im italian and a Maggio jersey would just be right.
Wahlstrom, sorry buddy, love you but id trade you for a pick.
Given we dont pay 3 guys around 40% of our entire teams cap, i wouldnt compare us to the Leafs. Also, fuck em.
Our biggest need rn is absolutely a young offensively gifted center a lot of stuff happens in hockey so in 3-5 years time all of our predictions will be wrong. Not worried about us on that time
Still relatively new to hockey but palms is 33, is a long term contract really the best move? (Just this year made the switch from diehard nfl fan to nhl fan so still don’t know too much about players aging and career lengths)
The Dobson and Romanov extensions are the biggest upcoming contracts that will really dictate how much excess cap we will have. We need those 2 locked up to as much term as we can get them for. Ideally if we could have Pelech/Pulock type contracts that would be great. Though I think Dobson is playing his way into a larger contract this season.
Wahlstrom I don’t think will ever be that good unfortunately, just seems to be the next kieffer or dal colle, is what it is when you can’t really skate and have lower hockey iq. I think “identity line” is an outdated term, teams don’t have identity lines often, game needs guys that can skate and muck it up on the 4th line, not either or. Dobson/Romanov contracts dictate future cap space. Very high likelihood in 2 years the only forwards left are Lee, horvat, barzal, cizikas, and engvall, 2 of which are because no one will ever take their contracts
When we signed JG it was worth it. Is he overpaid now? Yes. But that happens. He’s still a great 3C or at worst 4C.
4th line should be Fasching – MacLean – Gautier next year. Trade Cizikas, if we are letting go of Martin and Clutterbuck we might as well completely reinvent the wheel with the 4th line.
COMPLETELY disagree regarding the top heavy leafs. Three out of four of them are divas (Tavares, Mathews, Marner). They might not be perfect but Diva and Horvat, Barzal, Dobson, and Sorokin are never uttered in the same sentence. Plus we don’t commit that much towards that cap like the queefs.
If they can stay healthy, Pelech and Pulock would still make a good top or 2nd pair. The problem is they can’t and Pulock can’t hit the side of a barn despite having a howitzer of a shot. I would have no issue trading both of them for different faces. Make the top D Dobson and Romanov, and run with it. Will it be perfect? No, but trial by fire.
Realistically a « retool » is the way to go in our situation, NOT a full on rebuild. The problem is Lou. If he goes, most likely his son replaces him. I suspect little would change. Ownership isn’t changing, and since all they care about is the real estate aspects and putting buts in the seats I doubt we are more than a mid level team for the next 5-10 years.
However, ideally…
Keep the goalie situation the same until either Tikkanen (or Lennox) is ready to be a full time backup.
Bring back Reilly on a cheap contract, he’s been good for us. Dump Bortuzo and Bolduc. Try to trade Aho and get a competant veteran NHL d man as a spare.
Up front…this is where major change is needed.
No matter the cost rid ourselves of Lee and his albatross contract. Make Horvat captain.
Try to get rid of Engvall, Wahlstrom (and the previously mentioned Cizikas).
If a deal can be made for JG or Palmieri to get younger and cheaper, do it.
Keep Nelson, Holmstrom, Fasching, MacLean and obviously Barzal and Horvat.
Get a legitimate top line winger, a 2nd line winger, and roll the dice.
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(Someone) – Horvat – Barzal
(Holmstrom – Nelson – (Someone)
(Someone for Lee) – (Someone for JG) – (Someone For Palmieri)
Fasching – MacLean – Bring back Gautier