He gave the players total privacy, allowing the NHL minimum requirement for availability. This is probably one of the things players liked best about Lou. No reporters or the broadcast crew on team flights. The locker room and practice facility was the Fortress of Solitude for the players.
Stop! I’m gonna have a nightmare tonight.
I ant to laugh? Go look at the 2nd round of the 2012 draft. We had the 3 guys in the organization and only drafted 1 of them. Other 2 were acquired in trades for Thomas Vanek and Michael Grabner.
That’s one of my favorite drafts. The all defense draft and somehow we missed Jacob Slavin.
I can't believe it has to be said that the Isles should not make former players, current broadcasters, and current coaches with no NHL GM experience into the GM role. There's lots of current up and coming AGM's that would be great hire.
You’ll see him when you see Lukas Sutter and Felix Bibeau. I wonder if Kirill Kabanov ever turned into a superstar.
I think that look was a frustrated look of a guy who hates to lose and also hates to have his name tied to a loser but knew what most of us knew, we had too many dogs that just didn’t cut it as players. He was probably forced to have Martin play early in season and probably got shot down when needing players to be brought in , Lou’s loyalties to dog players must have been frustrating. I know I would struggle having to work under Lou
I think that was another HFIsles wet dream.
We could always go a step further and bring back the MetRx Skate with the Greats so the alumni game can be an alumni game and not a fantasy camp.
Comments in Burke's book are enough for me but beyond that, what has he done to make him qualified for a GM job? He conducts himself like a clown.
It was about Lou having total control
wanted to start after i'm dead. I'm tired of seasons where the Islanders are out of it in December.
In the grand scheme of things I hope Duclair being allowed to grow back his dreads gives him his power back, lol. (Samson!)
If Lou opened a pizza place he wouldn't sell pepperoni pizzas because he doesn't like them.
I really don't want to mess with the Kumbaya vibe around here by getting into rebuild vs retool, but the key thing is getting the right Pres/GM/Asst GM/analytics/scouting staff/etc., etc.. If they get a smart bunch of people, I'm good with whatever they decide is the right course of action. My thing for a while has been that if they get the right group, they can pull off a retool and get the team legitimately competitive with maybe a short step back. But if those smart guys decide they have a yenna for McKenna, so be it.
Where is that bolded headline from lol. Freidman never mentioned Martin as a TOP candidate. I've seen a few articles and podcasts talking about Friedman mentioning Martin and Hickey but leave out the part where he says that Collins might want alumni guys like Martin and Hickey to LEARN the position. Even mentioned Glenn Healey. To me that sounds like not the GM job but a position in the organization?
That’s just Friedman covering all bases since he was uninformed - that’s his MO when he knows nothing but needs to speak on a subject.
This will be impossible. This draft will be with the Isles current scouts or scouts not with a team. Anyone currently employed by a team involved in scouting will not be permitted to jump now and be involved in another team’s draft.
