Exactly right!! The Islanders need to move on from Hickey especially if the cost to re-sign him is 3 million dollars per year for a 3-4 years! He was a good waiver wire pickup and played hard for the Isles but does not fit on a 3rd pairing for the amount of money that he will want to be paid.
Player Discussion: Hickey
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Exactly right!! The Islanders need to move on from Hickey especially if the cost to re-sign him is 3 million dollars per year for a 3-4 years! He was a good waiver wire pickup and played hard for the Isles but does not fit on a 3rd pairing for the amount of money that he will want to be paid.
We acquired him on waivers, it is where he should be returned.
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He is working on that. He may run out of season before he hits -, but he is doing his best to get that done.
Its funny because every season i find myself complaining about this guy.... until now. We don't have any better options than thomas f***ing hickey. Davidson was absolutely tragic in his debut 
majormet
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Its funny because every season i find myself complaining about this guy.... until now. We don't have any better options than thomas ****ing hickey. Davidson was absolutely tragic in his debut
Davidson was very Mayfieldian in his debut
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Sure, poor guy was tied to Pelech all game. Nobody looks good playing next to that guy.
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I can't wait until we can finally walk away from Hickey. I know I'm hard on him, I do appreciate everything he's done for us. He's been here for some big moments and he's been a good Isle. He has been used quite a bit as a top-4 defender over the years, not necessarily his fault since the coaches have consistently deployed him that way.
As I said earlier, we need to do better than Hickey.
As I said earlier, we need to do better than Hickey.
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Pelech is the most polarizing player IMO, fans either trash him or feel he has top-4 potential. I don't think he is horrible, certainly has a lot to learn but in terms of defense, I think he is the best out of Pulock and Mayfield by a decent margin.
Hickey has been a good Islander but we need to move on IMO. For some reason it is rarely mentioned that our top pairing is not a product of our system, even Hickey was a Kings draft pick. Hamonic is the absolute best homegrown D we have had in 15 years, that is alarming.
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You don't like Pelech much LOL... Pelech is solid to me... Davidson would be Mayfieldian next to Lidstrom in his prime
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Well he could be looking at 6 years at 1 million per, I am sick of him after one game
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You noticed lol
Eh I was a fan of his back in October. Since then...not so much.
But honestly, who has Pelech looked good with besides DeHaan? (Dehaan makes everyone look good....even Seidenberg).
The geek stats say Pelech stinks and my eyes tell me the same thing. Yea he's ok at breaking up the odd play because of his reach...but other than that, there isn't much there to like.
Guy can't escape a forecheck and gets buried in his own end way too much.
I'm done with Pelech. We need to trade him now while we (hopefully) still can.
Hickey >>> Pelech
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majormet
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My eyes see a guy with a solid slap shot, who recovers from his mistakes quickly, quick for his size, and gets better with each game... he needs to sell penalties better, he is strong so he can get assaulted and not fall to the ice... CDH is not that good, he is an average dman... Pelech would look good with a guy like Demers
Hickey is a fine 3rd pairing defenseman. It's not his fault he's better than Pelech, Mayfield, Davidson, etc
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CdH is so overrated on here. Assuming we don’t move Pelech/Mayfield or acquire a top pairing D, next year we should be looking at Leddy-Chuk, (Hjalmarsson etc.)-Pulock, Pelech-Mayfield.
No. This team has made it abundantly clear that they view Pelech as the CDH replacement. The D will be:
Leddy - Boychuk
Pelech - Pulock
Davidson/Toews - Mayfield
Toews/Davidson
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Hasn't +/- as a stat pretty much been discredited as a hockey version of Phrenology?
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The CDH absentia is very reminiscent of when AndyMac went down one year with 25 games left and we were in the last playoff spot and spiraled down under Scott Gordon. Because the team has been much worse since CDH is out, he can be singled out now for greatness, but in reality CDH was on the ice for a lot of the blowouts this and last year.
I don't see us getting a top quality dman, it seems Snow likes his unit now, and now Davidson crowds it up more, we have to hope Toews is the 2nd coming of Lidstrom
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