You know the rule, only magnify it because of the team the player plays on. Also, the whole game was won off of the inability for the Islanders to stay out of the box. 5v5 the game looked substantially different (even up until midway into the 3rd).
There are 31 NHL teams that will have zero reservations about signing him. He's still got a lot of room to improve and mature physically.
Hey I found the guy who watched ONE Isles game this year. I'd bet a million dollars I know exactly which game he saw too.
It's been happening all year long, so it's nothing new. The problem, which is common to PK and end of games, is that NYI's D have not gotten enough help from the forwards, and it's not for lack of trying. JGP, Lee, Nelson, Palmieri, Clutterbuck have been ... awful in roles they used to excel in. Time to turn that over.
Can we add Wahlstrom and Martin onto the list? One shouldn’t be on an NHL roster anymore and the others only recent highlight was a fight. Lou needs to purge all his pending UFAs and just bring up whoever’s in the system next year. Let Patty work with who they have and tweak from there. Fasching-Cizikas-Maclean is a fine 4th line. Holmstrom-Pageau-Lee/Engvall for the 3rd. Test out Iskhakov and/or Maggio in the top 6.
I would not be surprised if he's not a ppg defender long term, and that might be a result of him becoming a bit more patient. I also expect better D, and leadership from him.
NYI need to make acquisitions, because they simply do not have anyone in house to do what they need. The only prospect forward they have who I feel certain will have a NHL career is Danny Nelson. Their bottom 6 has to get more athletic, and acquisitions are the only way to do that quickly. They have to sell Nelson, dump either Palmieri or Pageau, and consider buying out Lee.
That’s really all I’d keep as a bottom 6 forward as well. The other 3 wingers currently playing there are toast and all we can use Pageau for at this point is faceoffs. It’s an easier fix than people think with the amount of bottom six forwards that wind up on the market. If anything, pick up a few guys to play wing on short term (one year or PTO) deals to just hold places for other guys to develop.
I’m glad your elite team of all the elite won the 2024 NHL Outdoor game championship on home ice complete with all the bells and whistles Grammy award winning artist James Dolan could have ever imagined.
And let’s not forget the remarkably painful musical performance between periods 1 and 2.
That is what you call “rich kids from Manhattan with parents who have major connections to the music industry” or Hipster Rangers fans.
You think he’d offer up a 2nd for Pageau? He’s a great bottom six guy and even a standout ping pong player. The Leafs can use a guy like him too. We’ll take Justin Pogge, goalie of the future in return.
Dobson is 3 years younger and playing like one of the top defenseman in the world this year. I don’t think you need to worry too much
Could very well be the opposite situation. Hindsight is everything here of course but an 8x8 off his elc instead of his bridge deal and the isle’s would be laughing right now.
You could have our next owned 2nd. The best part is you have 3 years to scout the next minor midget phenom.
I’m personally hoping James Hagens falls to the Islanders in 2025. Let the hockey world implode when an islanders fan growing up goes to the Islanders and they compare him to Mitchell Marner.
