Weekes: Four Islanders moves coming

[Goal Caufield50]

Are these trades across the next few years?

or this year?

 

[thefutures]

Well, we are still waiting.....

Do yourself a favor and read the original tweet, no definitive timeline, might as well hold ur breath if ur sitting around waiting

 

[Sparksrus3]

Lou is the worst.

This insightful post once again shows all of us why ,at the very least, it’s important to finish high school

 

[IslesNorway]

Well, we are still waiting.....

Don't wait up...

 

[Avaholic29]

This insightful post once again shows all of us why ,at the very least, it’s important to finish high school

It’s important to finish highschool to form an opinion? How long did it take you to come up with that attempt of an insult? clearly I mean lou taking every last day of the offseason to announce his underwhelming secrets/signings is a pain in the ass. if you had the IQ of a highschool graduate then you may have picked up on that. I apologize that I had to walk you through a very obvious reason for my statement and that your strong love for Lou lam was tested.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

 

[Pure Slaughter Value]

For those waiting, my guess is Lou submits whatever signings a minute before the NY office shuts down Labor Day Weekend. It makes sense (in Lou's world).

 

[Axe Man]

delete

 

[dlawong]

Hope the first one is the RFA signing of Dobson, who is the key piece for Isles to build around for years.

To build a team you need to bring certain pieces one at a time. When not much is available out there, then you sometimes do pay a premium to fill a hole. When they trade for JGP, the team needs a premium PK player who is strong on the faceoff with speed. The one best fit for that need at that time is JGP, although I am not quite happy about giving up a 1st for any player unless it is for a proven top 6 or a top prospect. JGP had played well but got hurt in the playoff and had an off year the following season.

Lee is a player they could not afford to not resign at the time they sign him, they do not have anyone like him in the system - a strong front net presence, a good captain, and who can score goals.

The Seattle expansion and lack of prospects ready to push out older players due to a bad combination of top entry draft pick by Snow's scouting team) and Ladd's contract did not help. Lou inherited a lot of Snow's problems which limited his ability to improve the team further. Now he has some of his good young pieces, he needs to be patient and hope to improve within, even if that meant another bad year to get some higher picks to enable him to fill out the holes either from within or improve future trade options. Most teams improved got their big piece from finishing bottom 5 - right? TML - got 2 major pieces within 2 consecutive years, Oilers (similar). Avs, and Tampa, where did their top players come from? Even Rags got lucky and landed two top picks recently and their top goalie was drafted, not acquired via trade. Which team that won Cups recently did not benefit from getting top-notch performance from players drafted from positions 1-5 in the first round?

However, Isles can't go the rebuilt/retool route the last few years as they brought in a respected top coach and need repetitive playoff success to keep fans coming back in a small market competing with 2 other teams in the same area. The owners bought the team with goals to make the team competitive each year to improve the value of the team in short term, not over the long term, in order to recover the hefty investment they put into the team in a reasonable time span. If they only can be patient with giving another 4 years, they can field a more competitive team from drafts, as that is normally the time to take to acquire enough good prospects and turn those assets into a more entertaining and cap manageable roster.

UFA signing typically means overpaying on terms, unless the player had an unimpressive UFA year, major injury concern, and hence has gotten very few competing offers. Offer-sheet rarely happens. Isles had arena issues for years and finally, they got a beautiful one built but unfortunately, they are stuck with cap problems. I am not saying Lou did not make some bad choices, but some are made for reasons he could not control and a big part of that is the lack of young prospects especially gifted speedy natural goal scorers in the position of D and C in the system, to push out players no longer contributing consistently.

 

[dlawong]

To be honest, I am not thrilled that Isles fans have to wait for announcements of all moves on the same day just before the training camp start. It is not a good thing to do if you want the season tickets renewed early in the summer to happen. Not helping with projecting future revenue and cash flow. This will impact not just the Isles' own organization but that of the arena and small businesses relying on home games around the area.

 

[Three On Zero]

Must have meant 4 bowel movements

 

[Love]

I guess Lou saw this, got mad, then backed out of all 4 moves.

 

[Voodoo Glow Skulls]

I saw the documentary about this.

 

[SI90]

NYI can't offer an eight year contract. Only Colorado could do that. The max is seven years.

Colorado can’t do that. Once free agency officially begins the team loses the rights to the player and can no longer sign said player to an 8 year deal

 

[Evgeny Oliker]

More of a general question:
I noticed on the weekend there usually are no signings being made.

Is that because league offices are closed or don’t process signings or something?


Thanks

 

[crashthenet]

Do yourself a favor and read the original tweet, no definitive timeline, might as well hold ur breath if ur sitting around waiting

Do yourself a favor and don't read the original tweet. It's the same nonsense everyone else has. He doesn't know more than you or I

 

[leeroggy]

One transaction to report:

CNN told Jeffrey Toobin to beat it

Deshaun Watson to be hired to replace on a 6-week contract

 

[Ianturnedbull]

Well, we are still waiting.....

Weekes announced it too soon. He'll measure better next time around. Lou obviously learned if this rumour and closed down the talks.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Weekes is a hack. He wants to be some sort of an insider so he rushes to break some news first just so he can say he was the first one to know about this. Makes himself look an fool in the end.

 

[Foppberg]

Colorado can’t do that. Once free agency officially begins the team loses the rights to the player and can no longer sign said player to an 8 year deal

Key word he said was "could" vs can.

 

[thefutures]

Do yourself a favor and don't read the original tweet. It's the same nonsense everyone else has. He doesn't know more than you or I

Yeah don't read the original tweet and complain about nothing.. lol

 

[smirob]

i think there 137 islander moves coming....over the course of time I'll be right.

 

[Gstank]

I feel like Lou does this on purpose just so he doesnt ahve to hear about his moves all summer long

 

[Kevin27NYI]

I feel like Lou does this on purpose just so he doesnt ahve to hear about his moves all summer long

If you think about it, what difference does it make if you announce all your transactions September 1st versus July 13th?

 

[Pure Slaughter Value]

If you think about it, what difference does it make if you announce all your transactions September 1st versus July 13th?

Yeah, I find it annoying but there is no difference. There may be some season ticket holders waffling about renewing but generally that's probably minimal. No company waits to renew for their luxury boxes which is where most of the money comes from anyway. The only ones it really affects are some on hockey boards that follow the Isles (WTF Lou?) or don't (LOL Lou!)