no, no, no....no one "needs to be overpaid" - if he's worth his new contract so pay him a boatload of bucks, if not then tell him the max and trade him if he doesn't want to be here for that amount of dollars. plain and simple, there should be no whining about oh we are losing another captain or such kindergarten things again.
He and PJB worked very well together down low. That is the missing link in our PP, and why Lee is not on track for 40 goals again. I trust the owners and management to sign him at a reasonable price, which may be higher than some of our armchair GMs feel he is worth.
Trade Barzal now before he be comes a free agent and/or captain.
Technically you are correct, but if they are still here after the trade deadline the Rubicon has effectively been crossed and thus it can be within reason considered a deadline.
So when is the magic deadline?
Before the trade deadline. Yup that didn’t work at really well either considering he didn’t want to sign. Good think Lou is running the ship this time around. Have a lot more faith he will do the right thing.
Let's say we're a week before the deadline and the Islanders are in third place in the Atlantic. 6 points clear of the 8th spot and within 3 points of the first place Caps. Lee's unsigned but talks are going well and management feels confident he will sign. Are you telling me that Lou should trade the captain and leading goal scorer?
Actually Lou would probably trade Tavares knowing this team was not a cup contender and he refused to sign an extension at the time with bogus excuses.. As far as Lee I think he’s going to sign an extension at least from the reports I have read. If he’s not signed by a week from the deadline that means he’s probably rejected there offer and more then likely going to free agency. Every significant islanders player that has gone to freeagency has left. Since this team is probably not going to win the Stanley Cup this season if lee is not signed close to the deadline then yes I trade him. I’ve never wavered from my theory on free agency. If you think you are good enough for the cup then you buy and go all in if not then you sell replenish your assets and try to eventually build a team that can win a Stanley Cup as that is the ultimate goal.
Lou would have given him a deadline of October to re-sign and then potentially traded him before the season. He wouldn’t have gotten strung along like Snow and Co. did. Having him unsigned going into the season was a real problem. Everyone just assumed (including me) that it would work itself out. It never did. Well....it did. For Toronto.
Many UFAs walk. Every year. And very rarely do teams play hardball and give artificial deadlines. Lou doesn’t exactly have a great track record of keeping (or trading for that matter) his UFAs.
Your hockey Iq is not able to follow half of them. The others you just think they suck cause it feels good for you to think they suck
There battling for a playoff spot and not first place. Lots of idiots would have traded Judas at the deadline last season. The fact there are still people who would not have traded Tavares shows how clueless some fans are. .
Yeah last yeah they weren't really even in a playoff race. It goes to show you how desperately Malkin wanted tavares here. I believe Malkin mist not watch much hockey if he thought JT was a must keep, or that the team couldn't be better without him. It would be like a young Giants fan who thinks odel beckham is so important. He's not. Watching Vegas make a cup run must of made Malkin realize, forget hiring JTs agent as a GM to make JT happy, I'm gonna man up and take control of this team I bought.
