Roster/Rumors/Speculation/Trade Talk - 2024-25: Re-Tool, Re-Group, Re-Mix, Re-Build

[Kevin27NYI]

Golden Knights as well. They have done some questionable things with the cap but they are always gunning for it. I say put Cizikas on that list too and see who bites. The Leafs as well.

Shit I forgot Cizikas too. I want a flown blown cut from these guys. And I don't hate them. But we need a change.

 

[The Real JT]

That's not in my top 10, he sucks and I wouldn't waste ink on him. And every team has draft busts, it only really hurts when it's a top 5 pick.

The dreaded #5 for the Isles.

Misfires on #5 overall picks
Getting teased by 5th round picks who never seem to pan out.
If Lou fires Coach Roy then you guessed it, the next coach will be his 5th as Isles GM.

 

[MarsTBOW]

The dreaded #5 for the Isles.

Misfires on #5 overall picks
Getting teased by 5th round picks who never seem to pan out.
If Lou fires Coach Roy then you guessed it, the next coach will be his 5th as Isles GM.

He fires Roy and that's if for me....
Been watching since '79 '80 and cannot take much more of this nonsense.
Sick of the Vanilla Bullshite.
No Balls No Blue Chips....

 

[BelovedIsles]

Can't say it enough. I'd rather watch a rebuilding team lose than this one.

 

[impaaaaaact]

When everyone is healthy, I would like to see the following...

Tsyplakov-Horvat-Pageau
Lee-Nelson-Palmieri
MacLean-Barzal-Duclair
Engvall-Cizikas-Holmstrom

Pelech-Pulock
Romanov-Dobson
Cholowski/George-Mayfield

This Is The Way

 

[Top Corner]

Washington, Pittsburgh are examples of teams grabbing younger guys via trade or wire that may or may not work out. Our dumbass GM keeps running the same garbage. I would at least like him to start shuffling the deck and see what hand comes up, at least he would acknowledge what he has won’t work

 

[Osakahaus]

When you're mediocre, you really blame the coach over the players?

If they end up firing Roy (which I can see), will this team really do much better with another deck shuffle? Islanders are somehow slammed up against the cap and refuse to bring in anyone else at this point, but we gotta blame the goalie still? This team just lost to the Blackhawks (technically should've lost to them twice), and yet they didnt even score a single PPG against them either? The Islanders should've blown it up after 2023. They gambled on 2024 and didnt do much. Now you have an even bigger predicament where your a very top heavy team thats great 5v5, but sucks on special teams and can't hold onto a lead. They're getting slower and worse mentally. At what point does your general manager do a thing? At what point do we blame Lamoriello for the poor special teams coaching hires? At what point does it become indictive that his 2021 and 2023 offseasons were objectively terrible?

Shit I forgot Cizikas too. I want a flown blown cut from these guys. And I don't hate them. But we need a change.

Cizikas looks expired, and it sucks since he was a pure heart and soul player for the team. Dude just flat out can't hang with these cats anymore.

 

[seafoam]

Shit I forgot Cizikas too. I want a flown blown cut from these guys. And I don't hate them. But we need a change.

Pelech Please!

 

[Kevin27NYI]

Pelech Please!

I’d wait. The strength is the right side, we’re weak on the left. I’d pour money into the offense and worry about the D later.

 

[Kevin27NYI]

This is unrelated to trades but

Can anyone remember the last physical scrum the team was in on? Just trying to gauge the emotion of the team.

In terms of fights this year there was Zucker-Whally, Martin-Desharnis and Mayfield and Macdermid right?

 

[scottywiper]

Another amazing oddity - isles tops in the league in face off win %. Yet can barely win a face off when it counts the most.

This really irks me. I keep how hearing how good we are at face offs. But when it comes down to dying minutes or on the PK or PP, Horvat and JGP suddenly start losing them.

 

[crashthenet]

This is unrelated to trades but

Can anyone remember the last physical scrum the team was in on? Just trying to gauge the emotion of the team.

In terms of fights this year there was Zucker-Whally, Martin-Desharnis and Mayfield and Macdermid right?

So soft. Particularly against the Hawks.