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Snapshots: Islanders, Prospects, Recruitment

January 29, 2018 at 12:50 pm CDT | by Gavin Lee 2 Comments

The New York Islanders will be opening the doors on their new arena at Belmont Park in a few years, but for the time being they needed to find a place to play. Today, the team announced that they would play 12 games at Nassau Coliseum next season, and split time evenly between there and the Barclays Center again in 2019-20.

During the press conference, the Islanders executive group spoke about John Tavares and his pending free agency, saying that it is completely in his hands and that they want him to spend the rest of his career with the club. As Tavares focuses on getting the Islanders back into the playoffs, rumors will continue to bubble up about him going to another city—it certainly won’t be because they don’t want him back as an Islander.

  • Corey Pronman of The Athletic (subscription required) has released his midseason draft rankings, and they will definitely raise an eyebrow or two. Pronman has long been a proponent of ranking potential stars over depth players, despite the risk that may be involved. That might explain his ranking of Ryan Merkley at #6 and Brady Tkachuk down at #15. Pronman’s rankings are just another example of how difficult this draft will be to project, as players fall in wildly different categories on various lists. It could lead to more trading on the draft floor, as teams try to acquire “their guy.”
  • NHL players don’t turn down an opportunity to help improve their club, and the All-Star weekend was no different. Several reports, including Craig Custance of The Athletic, listed examples of players trying to recruit others that might be heading to free agency soon. Mike Green, Drew Doughty and Erik Karlsson all heard it from players like Auston Matthews, while apparently Steven Stamkos was selling Tampa Bay to everyone who would listen.
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  1. Kenleyfornia74

    7 years ago

    Leafs wont have the cap room for a Karlsson/Doughty. Mattews himself will be a RFA when those guys will hit free agency

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    • ThePriceWasRight

      7 years ago

      Pittsburgh has 3 players making 7+ million and Kessel is just shy of that.

      while I agree fitting Matthews and one of those d is difficult, it’s not impossible with some tinkering.

      could arrange a sign and trade type of deal with send or kings for a Gardner or Reilley and likely won’t have bozak, jvr, and komorov back to clear cap space starting next year I also don’t see marner as a long term player on this team. in 3 years you could see a d of reilly, lilgren, Dermott, Zaitsev and one of these premier defencemen.

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