cant rebuild by trading away only your mid-lower players. To really rebuild, you are gonna have to deal away one or more of your "untouchables"...thats the only way to recoup some higher talent/picks. It would certainly hurt for you guys to deal Barzal, Sorokin, or Dobson....but by the time you finish the rebuild and are competitive again, they may be 5 or more years older.
Fair enough. Pulock probably doesn't play the right style for the spot we need anyway. We need more of a stabalizing player to play on the shutdown pair with Nurse, so maybe Mayfield would be a better target.
That’s fine with me. Mayfield comes with a wonderful NTC along with his 7 year deal.
I don't really care about the NTC, as long as he would waive it to play in Edmonton, ha ha.
Just promise him that the refs won’t call everything he does as a penalty and I’m sure he’ll be fine with it. I’m convinced that after the Kucherov debacle in the playoffs a few years ago, the league just went out of their way to target everything he does. There’s been times he’s gotten a penalty and you just think to yourself, how is that even possible.
Lol oh yeah? Id love to see a quality argument to suggest there is a big difference here. Chychrun is also 4 years younger.
No. NYI would be lucky to get as good as Sorokin, Barzal, and Dobson by tearing it down & drafting from scratch.
That's weird. Yet not surprising from the NHL. Evander Kane gets no benefit of the doubt from the referees either.
It’s also a downgrade massively for the Islanders. He’s not going to play over Pelech or Romanov so it’s back to where he was with Ottawa. Sulking over not getting his top 4 minutes and then he walks so essentially the Islanders traded Pulock for nothing.
Then you have guys who can run around trucking guys high with no repercussions. The Islanders are one of the teams with the least power play opportunities. Refs just refuse to call stuff unless it’s obvious for some teams.
None of this is accurate. Well done. When's the fictional book come out?
Considering you guys think Romanov is a bottom pairing defenseman it’s utter comical. Chycrun wants his top 4 minutes and his game slumps when he doesn’t get it. He’s not better than either Romanov or Pelech. Good try though.
I swear to G-d folks copypasta this bullshit this every time they see a "anybody but these guys" post regardless of who else is made available. Do you have any idea who Pelech and Pulock are and what they're capable of? I assume not, since 1) you posted this and 2) they've gone largely unnoticed for, like, the entirety of their careers.
"Not playing over" != "better than". Deployment circumstances matter. This is the same fallacy behind claims that Leon Draisaitl is a #2C.
Don’t waste your time, he’s a Rangers fan who’s convinced the Islanders just need to tear it down and trade everyone and then fold when the team struggles Arizona style.
It’s no different then the other helmet wearers like crypto who think they know everything about every other team.
You can't sentence someone to that. I think that was outlawed by the Geneva Convention.
I agree with you about the break down/build up part.
