Speculation: Islanders General Rumour, Trade, Free Agent and Waiver Speculation...

[Sheva7]

John Carlsson was used as Washingtons #3 defenseman. He was a negative (not +/-) defensively 5v5 and was sheltered. He is absolutely not the defenseman this team should be handing 8+ million to.

Right on man. I really hope Isles steer clear. That guy isn't worth anything even close to 8mil. NO THANK YOU

 

[Macch]

If the Blues are tempted to trade Parayko... He's the guy we should go all in for.

Kid can do it all

 

[Kevin27NYI]

Michael Grabner should be on our wish list.

 

[Lame Lambert]

If the Blues are tempted to trade Parayko... He's the guy we should go all in for.

Kid can do it all

Their ask would be Barzal (and rightfully so)

 

[WangMustGo]

Michael Grabner should be on our wish list.

I'd take him for our bottom 6 good Pker and good for 20 goals.

 

[Kevin27NYI]

I'd take him for our bottom 6 good Pker and good for 20 goals.

I'm obsessed with improving the PK; Grabner, Riley Nash, Glendening, Orpik etc.

 

[Mr Misunderstood]

Michael Grabner should be on our wish list.

Cappy drove him outta town. Lou can drive the gremlin back.

 

[Isles Junkie]

Do we really want Hands of Stone back here? I'm not so sure I do.

 

[PK Cronin]

I feel like he just makes all of these trades in a vacuum without actually considering the ramifications that they have on the team. That Domi trade was bad. Subban trade was asinine.

I just don't get the moves, like you mentioned earlier. The 1 for 1 trade for Domi makes some sense possibly if they're re-building. They need to re-build but seem confused about how to do it. I think they should be looking to dump off Price and Weber at all costs and just tank.

Only person linking Kovy to the Isles was Dippin Dots, and he’s a bigger fraud than Ledecky

Staple did as well, with a few other guys. Nobody said it was a done deal though.

John Carlsson was used as Washingtons #3 defenseman. He was a negative (not +/-) defensively 5v5 and was sheltered. He is absolutely not the defenseman this team should be handing 8+ million to.

I just want to get a defenseman who is worth that much. Subban or Doughty would be great.

Michael Grabner should be on our wish list.

Please no. I wish he'd retire so I didn't have to see his name pop up on our boards anymore, that's how much I don't want him.

 

[PK Cronin]

Do we really want Hands of Stone back here? I'm not so sure I do.

No No No!!!

 

[Lame Lambert]

I'm obsessed with improving the PK; Grabner, Riley Nash, Glendening, Orpik etc.

We did the best thing we could do in firing Cronin

 

[WangMustGo]

I'm obsessed with improving the PK; Grabner, Riley Nash, Glendening, Orpik etc.

Outside of a goalie and defenseman I think our biggest need is a good 2 way 3rd line center that can kill penalties and is good on the draw

 

[Kevin27NYI]

Outside of a goalie and defenseman I think our biggest need is a good 2 way 3rd line center that can kill penalties and is good on the draw

There are some guys out there for a varying bottom 6 roles like Dom Moore, Riley Nash, Derek Ryan, Glendening, Jay Beagle, Tyler Johnson, Gibbons, Brodziak, Filppula and Winnik.

 

[BrockLobster]

It was either Lebrun or Custance last week that interviewed 4 league execs and they all said he’s not going anywhere. That seems to be the attitude of everyone around the league.

Everyone except the leaf boards

 

[periferal]

I don’t why they wouldn’t just qualify him and trade him after to at least get something.

Maybe they already tried to trade him and got zero offers and didn't want to pay his salary.

 

[periferal]

Scoring isn’t our issue.

We can use our money better elsewhere

Sigh.

Once again...If you add more offense then you can trade that excess offense to fix your defense/goaltending.

You only have to many assets to trade, so when you can add a significant asset by only taking up cap room, you do it.

 

[periferal]

I think you guys would be surprised what Nelson could bring back. Step back and look at his entire body of work in context and not as an Islander fan.

Well Jester...

I would absolutely love to find out. Make it happen.

 

[periferal]

Now with the cap number officially out and at $79.5M, how realistic is it to sign a guy like Carlson?

It Tavares resigns...A contract will need to be unloaded.

If Tavares doesn't sign...We're *******.

 

[periferal]

I would say so, LA was a target place if that is true, LA has gone to plan B,... next see if San Jose goes plan B

With the Hoffman deals...The Sharks doubled down on plan A.

That said I wouldn't worry about another team. This all comes down to what Tavares wants to do and Malkin is giving him every reason to stay. If Lou adds some serious talent this weekend, then it's totally on JT if he leaves.

 

[Uncle Lou]

Friedman says Isles could potentially be in on Skinner

 

[periferal]

 

[periferal]

If the Blues are tempted to trade Parayko... He's the guy we should go all in for.

Kid can do it all

Given the contract situations I'd go for Parayko over Karlsson. Both will cost a lot, but Parayko less and he's signed for FOUR more years at 5.5/year. Beyond reasonable and a legit top-4 D-man. An IDEAL add if we could get him.

 

[periferal]

I'm obsessed with improving the PK; Grabner, Riley Nash, Glendening, Orpik etc.

Riley Nash...Very nice value signing.

 

[Uncle Lou]

As for tomorrow I’m hoping Lou swings for the fences on EK...Ottawa could use 11 and 12 so they can leave #4 for Colorado this year. SUMMER OF LOU!!!!

 

[boredmale]

Friedman says Isles could potentially be in on Skinner