Garth Snow now has "green light" from Wang to make stupid deals

It is doubtful that Snow will or should make any deals until the trade deadline. If the Isles still look good at that point, then go make some moves (hopefully not stupid deals like you by-line says). Yes, the rebuild is a slow process, but there is no reason not to do some prudent buying at the deadline if the opportunity arises (being battle-tested in the playoffs is potentially advantageous to future playoff aspirations). If not, then don’t.

Also, I think although Afinogenov could have been a good UFA signing – he is streaky, doesn’t appear to play D well and coasts at times out on the ice. Basically, he isn’t a Gordon-type player.

I think Snow deserves to be trusted by now. I don’t think its so much of a “Go out and spend money like crazy” but more of a “Theres no reason for me or anyone else to be looking over your shoulder, your not Milbury”

Bailey, Okposo and Tavares are all proving their worth. Streit, Moluson, Roloson and Biron were all quality signings. I think now is the time for the Isles organization to say “Snow, you know what your doing”. I think Snow has basically been in control anyway, just not officially.

as long as they are consistent with the long range goal of building a champion. I would not favor giving up serious assets. One avenue is the waiver wire. Preissing was just waived by the Avs. He has put up pretty good offensive numbers in the past and might help our PP. That would be an example of a move that would help the team without losing assets that would help build the team of the future.

It was nice to learn this, I guess. But I still can’t make much out of the original source material, which amounted to this in its entirety:

Garth Snow on Friday told Slap Shots via text that he has the authority from CEO Charles Wang to add payroll for a playoff berth.

…I’m pretty much in agreement with the FanPost and everyone here: It’d be stupid to waste the young assets for a short-term boost, but if you can cheaply add someone late in the year to reward this crew for a job well done, by all means don’t let money be the thing that stops you.

I guess I feel like this little bit from Brooks and Botta was a headline of “Nothing has Changed.”

Is this team’s current performance “a mirage” though? (I’m probably parsing here, but) I don’t think it is.

I think when reasonably healthy, they’re perfectly capable of sustaining something like their current performance - which is hovering around the quasi.500, one point per game pace. That’s not enough for playoffs, at all; just enough to finish somewhere in the 20s overall. I figure they can continue this until their lack of depth gets exposed if/when too many injuries pile up—… oh, hi Andy, hi Frans. Why are you in street clothes?

Just checking – the Isles have $13,1m of cap space as of now according to cap central. There are probably a couple of usable Defensemen out there that could be signed to a short term contract {no more than two seasons} that would probably be a help to the current D in terms of experience and stability. Look at the Kings with the addition of Ryan Smith and Rob Scuderi.

Of course, in checking Cap Central – the current Eklund rumor is the Isles are in the hunt for Ilya Kovachuk – that would be a major help – but that is not what they need {and I believe he will stay in Atlanta but that is another story}. Check out the current list of restricted and unrestricted free agents that will be available for 2010 on Defense however. If Garth would be somewhat patient – he could rent someone like a Pavel Kubina {just a logical example} or similar which may help them get in – bit I don’t see anything major happening here until after the holidays and before the Olympics. The next 15 or so games will be crucial to what kind of decision will be made.

There is definitely quality help available however. Just don’t give away the store. The Kings are a perfect example top follow here in terms of growth, patience – and building the right team around the right core {John Tavares}.

Key words – don’t give away the store.

Garth Snow now has “green light” from Wang to make stupid deals

Im sorry but I just dont see how youre coming to that from what Garth said. This isnt much of a story, Garth has said before that he is not limited moneywise by Charles Wang, people just accuse him of lying about it and insist theres an internal cap, anyway. Garth simply made it clear that there isnt. I dont see why this idea of him making stupid deals is coming up. What ‘stupid deals’ has Garth EVER made? I say none.