Wayne Primeau
Stay Gold
To the Sharks:
Josh Ho-Sang
To the Islanders:
Jérémy Roy
2019 3rd
Josh Ho-Sang
To the Islanders:
Jérémy Roy
2019 3rd
To the Sharks:
Josh Ho-Sang
To the Islanders:
Jérémy Roy
2019 3rd
I don't really have an issue with the trade value, but why would the Sharks make this trade?
I like Roy, but I think after the Karlsson trade we are certainly a little lacking in our forward prospect pool. Roy is arguably behind guys like DeSimone, Merkley, Ferraro. And with Vlasic, Burns and hopefully Karlsson all locked up, we simply don’t have that many spots available. Meanwhile, while we have a few good pieces at forward, such as the Ch-twins, Letunov, Gambrell, none of them have the pure ceiling of a guy like Ho Sang. It would serve to finally replace Goldobin as our boom or bust prospect.
You don't need to worry, we arent trading Ho Sang. He is too talented to trade him for anything teams would reasonably give us. That's on Josh. So why reward non compliance? We gain nothing by trading him and we stand to lose a lot if he suddenly decided to grow up. As presently constituted the only person he is sabotaging is himself.Unless I am mistaken, Ho-sang is a player who needs/wants ice time now, and not 3rd/4th line time. Not really a prospect per se any more.
So if I am not mistaken, who are you taking out of our top 6 for him? And then who on our third line is getting bumped to the 4th?
That's why I said the value didn't look bad to me, however I just do not see where he fits in the team.
You don't need to worry, we arent trading Ho Sang. He is too talented to trade him for anything teams would reasonably give us. That's on Josh. So why reward non compliance? We gain nothing by trading him and we stand to lose a lot of he suddenly decided to grow up. As presently constituted the only person he is sabotaging is himself.
So he'll stay in Bridgeport until he's 27 and is eligible for free agency. By then he may or may not carve out some semblance of a career but by then it really won't matter one way or the other, he'll have wasted much of his earning potential simply because he thought he knew better. There is no upside in trading him, only downside for the Islanders and it's better to send the message that no player is above the team. Than to reward him for his actions. I'm sure many of you will say " but there's always a chance you'll get something worthwhile for him" and that is true, but the chance that he finally wakes up and delivers on his immense talent when he's finally traded is greater, than anything we would recieve.
So unless you're offering a 1st or an equally talented high profile young player don't even bother, because he made his decisions and we are not in the business of helping other franchises acquire talent at a loss to our own. The Islanders have acted in good faith in regard to Ho Sang, he has not. So whatever happens next is out of our hands.
It's not meant to be negative. It's meant to be an honest recitation of the facts. When he was drafted I was extremely excited that we landed a top 20 rated pick with the number 28 selection. we even traded up to draft him. I too had read all of the McDavid comparisons through the years and I wondered what could possibly go wrong.Uh wow, ok.
I think I missed something, this post seems very negative, and I certainly have not read why...I knew hes been kinda difficult, but this seems beyond that lol.
Ho-Sang is worth more than a 3rdThe Isles would take this trade even without the player coming back in return.
Ho-Sang is worth more than a 3rd
What's the ask for K. Bellows?
Skill-wise yes but he’s got a mental problem where his ego doesn’t allow him to change. He looked irrelevant in camp and you’ve heard nothing about him this season. Even MDC has been playing well to start the season.Ho-Sang is worth more than a 3rd
Skill-wise yes but he’s got a mental problem where his ego doesn’t allow him to change. He looked irrelevant in camp and you’ve heard nothing about him this season. Even MDC has been playing well to start the season.
He seems to cause his lack of playing time himself with that huge ego convincing him he deserves more.At this point unless he gets some regular NHL time, NYI isn't going to get a good return back for Ho-sang. When a asset is handled that poorly, teams take advantage of that.
You don't need to worry, we arent trading Ho Sang. He is too talented to trade him for anything teams would reasonably give us. That's on Josh. So why reward non compliance? We gain nothing by trading him and we stand to lose a lot if he suddenly decided to grow up. As presently constituted the only person he is sabotaging is himself.
So he'll stay in Bridgeport until he's 27 and is eligible for free agency. By then he may or may not carve out some semblance of a career but by then it really won't matter one way or the other, he'll have wasted much of his earning potential simply because he thought he knew better. There is no upside in trading him, only downside for the Islanders and it's better to send the message that no player is above the team. Than to reward him for his actions. I'm sure many of you will say " but there's always a chance you'll get something worthwhile for him" and that is true, but the chance that he finally wakes up and delivers on his immense talent when he's finally traded is greater, than anything we would recieve.
So unless you're offering a 1st or an equally talented high profile young player don't even bother, because he made his decisions and we are not in the business of helping other franchises acquire talent at a loss to our own. The Islanders have acted in good faith in regard to Ho Sang, he has not. So whatever happens next is out of our hands.