Yeah, I guess your right, but I just feel like Pelech's injuries are not the kind that guys made out of glass get. He's not tweaking little things and out for months. He's getting slashed, boarded and cheap-shotted and those are what is causing him to miss games. To me it's not the same as those who get these random injuries from soft contact and miss months.
You brought up Snow/Wang, all I said was previous administrations which encompasses more history than just Snow/Wang. And listen, if your goal as a hockey fan is to watch a team that is financially stable, and maybe for long beleaguered Isles fans that is enough, than congratulations, your team is doing well. But if your goal is to watch a team that is exciting and dynamic with a realistic chance to win a Cup any time in the next 5-10 years than good luck to you (unless of course there is another pandemic, then hey, lightning might strike twice - no pun intended).
That list is interesting. There are a lot of excellent forwards there who don't sprint a lot. A whole bunch of them in the first column have high-end hockey sense (Stone, Pavelski, Marchessault, Tkachuk, Robertson, O'Reilly).
I was very surprised to see Stone up there. Bet he wasn't like that pre-injury.
He was never fast, but he skated hard. He looked a lot like Ryan Smyth. But his game has changed a lot.
We would, Ottawa wouldn't
Got it, thanks for the feedback. I just think Pinto is a risk too with his legal issues. Heard from Ottawa fans they want to move on from Chabot. And as we have heard in our forum, everyone things Pelech isn't full healthy from the wrist injury. I would think coming into next year he's fully recovered from everything that's bothering him.
I don't understand this. Hockey fans have "goals" for the team that they can somehow achieve? And how/why do the Isles not have a realistic chance at a cup for 10 years? Strange take.
Yep, you are
Who is this guy?
I really don't know enough about the Pinto situation, but imo it makes little sense to get a player like Chabot where a decent part of their value is as a PPQB when he won't QB the first unit. The salary allocation makes no sense considering what NYI will have to pay Dobson.
Most fun I had in nearly 40 years of being an Islander fan. I was too young for the good years.
I can't confirm that he was an asshole, but I can confirm that Islanders employees loathed him. I witnessed many head-shaking conversations. I'm sure there are many other explanations (lack of interest, not wanting to send good money after bad which obviously affected employees) for why they loathed Pickett, but there was zero doubt about the perception. I didn't witness any players saying anything first hand. Really, though, it was just that everything was falling apart, and he didn't seem to care. And employees weren't happy about taking pay cuts year after year, obviously.
i never met the man. In fact I never heard anything about him one way or another. What I do know about him is what was printed…that he was a minority partner of Roy Boe’s, that when Boe bankrupted the Islanders in the late 70s Pickett was called upon to be principal owner to help save the partners’ investment, that Pickett never wanted that role, and that by 1985 he moved to Florida and no longer wanted the Islanders.
I think that Pickett was also bamboozled by Spano . . . likely because like so many others, he didn't do a proper due diligence before agreeing to the sale, likely because he wanted out so quickly. Pickett likely was dragged through the mud behind the scene.
Unless we put Barzal back to center, how do you trade JGP with Cizikas still on IR . . . speaking of which, anyone hear anything on Casey's recovery?
The only candidates for "best owner" would be Pickett and Malkin/Ledecky (Wang did some good things for the franchise I guess, but the actual hockey management was not good). Despite owning the team during the dynasty years, Pickett's overall winning % was lower than current ownership. And more importantly, Pickett kept money from the cable deal rather than reinvesting it back into the team, leading to the downturn after '84. By process of elimination, the current guys are the best. Let alone the miracle they pulled off with the new arena.
Bit of a caution flag when a player tears it up on a lottery team that played without any care of defense.
If I remember correctly, the NHL brought Spano to Pickett as a buyer after the Gang of 4’s”lease- to-own” the Islanders fiasco.
This team was just about out of here. His ultimate folly was retaining MIlbury but his purchase of the team and the legacy Sportschannel contract really are the only things that kept the franchise here. Had he been able to build what he wanted which is now pretty much what is happening in Elmont, things would have been better for it.
Serious question and I hate beating a dead horse in wang/snow era, but was team really in danger of leaving?
I never believed for one second that Charles Wang would leave this tv market and all that money from the tv contract on the table. When push came to shove that money was worth more than trying to find an out of market buyer for the team, or worse, moving the team himself. Remeber at that time the contract was only 10 years old and had 25 years to run.
