SA16
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Trotz has made it out of the 2nd round one time in 19 years (this year). Really not too concerned about this one. Prior to this season he led a team notorious for choking and that's a team far more talented than the Islanders.
Around the NHL - 2018 Stanley Cup Champions, the Washington Capitals
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Kaapo Cabana
Next name: Admiral Kakkbar
The Isles neck/60 just took a hit
East Coast Bias
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Ghost of jas
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I only see short term gains. I see Lou moving assets to be a playoff team. I see them being no competition for the Rangers suckitude next year. I see Lou leaving them in the same condition he left the Devils.
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Change is good.
JT Kreider
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Luckiest timing ever with the Leafs letting Lou go and the Caps cheaping out on Trotz or that stupid clause in his contract or whatever it was.
Meanwhile our lucky timing was having our peak in the midst of the Kings and Blackhawks dynastys and having the best goalie at a time in the league where goaltending is at its least valuable. There is a reason Brodeur didn't win another Cup in the near 10 years after the lockout and all the drastic rule changes.
Hank would have cleaned up pre-lockout.
And the 2018 Caps team would have gotten swept by the 2014 Kings. With no overtimes or BS goals with obvious goalie interference.
Inferno
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I'll say it again...the team that gives JT that huge contract is going to regret it big time in 3 or 4 years.
He's only 27, he should still be very producitve and a very good player at 30 and 31.
Ghost of jas
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How many times has Tavares made the playoffs in his career? Lou is going to decimate that franchise trying to get them to the 2nd round.
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Inferno
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he's a mediocre skater and he's below average defensively.
Phenomenal offensive player but he's not going to age well Imho
I could absolutely be wrong..but it's how I've felt for a long time.
I don't consider j.t. one of the 10 best players in the nhl..but he's sure gonna get paid like he is.
I'm not sure I'd agree with either statements. Tavares' skating while not elite, is definitely an asset and he's evolved into a fine all around player.
And 6 of the top-10 scorers this season were 30+. Giroux, Malkin, Kopitar, Kessel, Wheeler, Crosby
I really don't see the concern of signing him to a deal long term. Obviously much more concerning to lose him if you're the Islanders.
Inferno
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Cool.
How many of the top 10 scorers were John tavares?
On a histroically awful defensive team that scored goals like crazy he wasn't a top 15 scorer.
Inferno
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For the most part in his career tavares hovers in the 15 to 30 range in scorers...once he was 2nd and once like 9th..at least the little research I did on my phone as my daughter tried to wrestle it from my hands.
Tavares is a 7 to 9 mil a year player whose gonna get like 12.
Tavares is a 7 to 9 mil a year player whose gonna get like 12.
NYR Viper
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Isles just hired a Stanley Cup winning coach who also is a heck of a developmental guy.
We hired a college guy because he looks like mike Sullivan.
Awful job by Gorton not waiting to see where all the chips were at the end of the season.
If the isles keep Tavares and can run barzal behind him. With competent management and cup winner behind the bench they’ll win a Cup in next 3 4 seasons
We hired a college guy because he looks like mike Sullivan.
Awful job by Gorton not waiting to see where all the chips were at the end of the season.
If the isles keep Tavares and can run barzal behind him. With competent management and cup winner behind the bench they’ll win a Cup in next 3 4 seasons
Ghost of jas
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Inferno
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That's one way to look at it...another way is they hired a guy whose been a consistent underachiever till this last year...
Troyz was the guy who threw shatty under the bus...you think he'd even remotely fit this team?
NYR94
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The Isles never made a serious effort to build a contending team around Tavares for the first 9 years of his career, but now that he's approaching free agency they bring in a hockey legend to run the front office and a Stanley Cup winning head coach. Funny how that worked out.
Inferno
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Lou is such an overrated gm. Most of his moves have been absolutely awful.
Zibanejbread
Rebuilding.
Who cares what the Isles do? We can't control any of that. Focus on the Rangers during this rebuild. I feel confident we'll be the big brother again sooner than later.
aufheben
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He most likely would've won the Art Ross in 2014 if not for Olympic injury. Would have won the Art Ross in 2015 if not for a freak Jamie Benn game on the last day of the season. 9th among active players for PPG.
But keep downplaying how good the guy is. And the cap just rose to 80 million. So he'd easily be worth 7-9 as a UFA.
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