Injury Report: Boychuk Week to Week; Isles call up Aho

[BillD]

This teams is in big trouble without dehaan and boychuk. Leddy is has been terrible lately. Pelech and Pulock are young and still mistake prone. Seidenburg is washed up. He just has not speed or lateral movement anymore. Hickey is ok for a 7th defenseman but when he has to play big minutes he gets exposed. Unless the goalies start standing on there heads i don't see how the islanders are going to survive losing there best 2 defenseman for a while. Snow may make a trade but he is going to have to overpay as teams know he is desperate.

We were shaky defensively before losing deHaan and Boychuck.
Now the goalies will be shelled mercilessly. Logic would predict an unsatisfactory outcome. Snow's choice is to find a deal for a temporary veteran patch, but if he has to spend valuable assets such as high draft picks just to see if we can hold it together and make the playoffs (no guarantee), he faces losing future talent. It will be a hard choice. He may just try to ride it out until Boychuk is ready to come back.

 

[ThreeLeftSkates]

He may just try to ride it out until Boychuk is ready to come back.

And Tavares will go for his own ride if that happens. Out of town!

 

[BillD]

And Tavares will go for his own ride if that happens. Out of town!

Yeah that's a possibility, but I don't think that JT will base a decision to sign elsewhere just on the outcome of this season alone. It could be that we do make moves at the trade deadline that result in a late season charge which may, or may not get us over the line.
It is being assumed that improving the quality of the team is his main concern and we don't even know that. It may be true, but it is very objective to think you could sign at a destination and that team will be what it appears to be, or headed in that direction, several years from now.
With the CBA cap in place, expect a lot of movement of players every season. JT has a hard job basing his decision on that alone.