Lee, Pageau, Holmstrom, and arguably Nelson all have not been good as of late. Barzal works best with Horvat and its clear that the 29-14-13 line should've stayed intact. What worries me is that we still have at least two more years of Lee. We have to get rid of that contract eventually.
Horvat can thrive without Barzal.
i feel like it isn't a problem for the islanders to draft players: its getting them to the Island and making sure that they can BECOME the quality caliber players that we hope they can be. I.e we need to be more like Tampa/Carolina/St.Louis/Boston. I really hope our next FO hire is from those teams.
Barzal can't thrive without a finisher who can skate, but that doesn't mean it has to be Horvat.
Isles need more wingers now. Hilarious.
Other than Horvat, Snow and Lamoriello haven’t been able to find one for him. This is Barzal’s 7th full year in the league. I’d say half his career is gone already. Time for everyone to just make the best of who he is.
Let me add that in his Isles tenure Lamoriello has not done a good enough job finding a scoring winger. It remains a glaring need and had he gotten one, Barzal might not have been asked to move to the wing.
Does not make sense when Bo Horvat's career high in points pre Barzal was 61 points when this season Bo Horvat eclipsed his high with 62 big ones in 67 games playing majority of the time with #13. Last year Horvat had 16 points in 30 game playing mostly without #13. C'mon fellas
Yes, #13 sucked lately.
No doubt Barzal has sucked lately. I suspect he will pick it up very soon, Kid does have fire in his belly unlike other NHL stars
Cutting bait on Sorokin after 1 bad year would be a dumb thing to do. There’s too much upside to him.
This late into the season - the league has pretty accurate data on HRR revenue and no reason for the league to lie about that - optimistic is really fact, especially when everything hinges on 50% share - revenue and salary.
Milwaukee, QC, and Toronto 2 make the most sense - but the Canadian Dollar - albeit there is a push for an 8th Canadian team and the small market of Milwaukee and KC - so that team 36 could be a wildcard.
The bolded was the whole point so I don't even know what your chiming in for if you don't get that. As for my "idea about NTCs". What "idea" are you talking about? I made the point that they exist, and that they make an already overpaid player even more difficult to move. Do you dispute that? Where is Tarasenko playing right now? Was that Ottawa's first choice, you think? Or was it there only choice to get any value at all back. And where do you come up with 50% roster turnover if they weren't utilized? Pulled it out of your ass is what you did. Do you think teams are incentivized to keep flipping there roster constantly? How do you build a team doing that? Don't just make up nonsense because don't like the opinion or the opinion-maker, which is all that you have done here.
Don’t forget Nino who turned into Clutter. Not a complete fail in that one, but expectations should be higher for a #5OA pick.
I agree - just having some fun. And yeah, Sorokin will be elite again - I don't doubt that. He's been exhibit A in my argument against a rebuild going back to when others advocated trading him away for picks/prospects!
Lucky for us the noted insider Darren Dreger shockingly got the Sorokin trade from Russia to Chicago wrong!I agree - just having some fun. And yeah, Sorokin will be elite again - I don't doubt that. He's been exhibit A in my argument against a rebuild going back to when others advocated trading him away for picks/prospects!
I do Not understand any of this shit about Barzal- he is their most talented player. When fans ask for a winger to play with Maty - it’s because he is skating with Lee and Fasching for f*** sake.
