How do you win without premiere talent?
How do you get top talent?
Certainly not by picking in the 10-15 range all the time.
Islanders should try and capitalize on their bad goalies and young defense now.
Even with JT, Cdh, and a solid netminder we'd be a borderline playoff team. A better coach and system wouldve made us at best a first rd exit.
This team is so flawed that bringing in Trotz doesn't matter.
It kinda hurts the unintentional tank.
Last year people were complaining about the last three wins in a row. Than the draft happened.
Next year's draft is nowhere near as deep.
But which way do fans want it to go?
How do you get top talent?
Draft and develop is probably the Islander's only choice. It's obvious we are still not even close to being a premiere UFA destination and NMC's kill us as well.
Certainly not by picking in the 10-15 range all the time.
Agree
Islanders should try and capitalize on their bad goalies and young defense now.
Pretty much agree
Even with JT, Cdh, and a solid netminder we'd be a borderline playoff team. A better coach and system wouldve made us at best a first rd exit.
I disagree with this. I think a healthy CDH and a real defensive system would have done wonders for this team. We even started out very well. Weight lost the team, they didn't buy into the system, the train went off the tracks. If we had the same team as last season with a new coach I'd be excited about this upcoming season
This team is so flawed that bringing in Trotz doesn't matter.
Having a good coach always matters, but it won't affect this season. It will be building a winning culture for future seasons though. Set the system, copy it in Bridgeport and start building for future success with it. It's still important to bring in a good coach now like we finally did.
It kinda hurts the unintentional tank.
Still gotta ice the best team and push your players to perform as best as possible, but no reason not to trade guys that aren't part of the future or dont' want to be here to maximize and manage assets. Now is the season to do that with which seems to be a roster incapable of really competing for anything
Last year people were complaining about the last three wins in a row. Than the draft happened.
Don't know about that...I kept watching games but stopped caring about the outcomes in December.
When you really break this down to nuts and bolts...and I don't know why people aren't grasping this, but we lost our best/2nd best forward, best/2nd best stay at home defenseman, and our best goalie to UFA. The best of a team that missed the playoffs by 17 points or so. Even if Trotz gains us back 7 or 10 points with
that squad...he doesn't have that squad. He's got a worse one. I'm usually the one to sit here and say, "eh, there are some question marks but if some key guys step up and fill the gap it could be a good season". I can't even begin to think that with this roster. I wrote it down above. How can anyone be confident with it in it's current state? Aren't there guys that have been able to (in the past) extrapolate the advanced stats of the added and removed players to see where we would have been in the course of a full season? I'd really be curious if that could add some data to those who are still looking at this team with "aww lost stray" eyes. Taking this team to the vet, cleaning them up some and trimming their nails is still going to leave us with a skinny mutt who shits on the floor before he scratches at the door to go out.
