leeroggy
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Patience is required as it still is about the coming Belmont years. This ownership has invested a great fortune to making sure that Belmont is a success. You need to trade the farm and future to go for the cup this year or next and that is NOT going to happen IMO.
I doubt Lou will trade top round draft picks and top prospects and try to go for it all only to be an organization that is depleted and rebuilding when it needs to fill a 17,000+ seat $Billion arena night in and night out. Being competitive in 2021+ is vital to the success of this organization.
Call it a slow rebuild and establishing cred with big name UFAs which this organization has not been able to land in their history.
The Islanders will try to add a player like Panarin for $$$ to pair with Barzal and their next wave of Islanders instead of say trading the farm for a Toews who with the current bunch of vets will be aging in to next 3-5 years.
You will not get much now trading Eberle, Bailey, Leo, Martin, Dal Colle, Kuhn, Martin.
Beauvillier can be had but his contract is coming due.
Trading Barzal, Lee, Nelson, Cizekas will not happen for obvious reasons.
Same with defense which is arguably one of the better defenses in the NHL. Losing Pelech this season obviously sucks but he will return.
I believe Lou will not trade first round picks, similar to Bill Torrey, because that is his only avenue for adding big be it future talent.
I feel I need to keep repeating this. These last two seasons have been a bonus and have lived up to the promise by Lou to be competitive every night when everyone said they would be a bottom feeder after failing miserably under Snow.
You folks calling for a big trade this season are getting greedy and are certainly unrealistic.
I don't think you got what I wrote.