NHL Power Rankings; Islanders Offense with More New Lines

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I get the feeling more and more that JT will be more of a Turgeon that a Trottier…. He’ll get his points, and lead the team to a few victories, but will never be able to take over a game like a Malkin, or Cindy. I just hope were not discussing him in terms of “best player to not win a cup” in 15 yrs…

Oh, and, um, how high is that ledge??

Will they climb back to 20th? It’s getting tougher to do but it’s still quite possible and that’s the area I thought they would end around before the season started.

Contrast to Minnesota, who is not quite what their record says they are, and many could call that from a mile away.

I don’t know how far down the list Tavares would be in the Atlantic, but comparing him to Pittsburgh’s centers is comparing him to two fellow top picks (well, Malkin was 2nd overall but it was a coin flip), and Malkin at age 25 looks like he is still getting better. (Tavares is 21.)

He was such an important part of the 4 cups!

He was out skating before practice with the other IR guys, still not cleared to practice with the team.

I don’t think that will get through the screeners.

Anyway you know what the most likely response is “We’re a young team, it’s growing pains, but we’re going to rebuild the team the right way and not take any shortcuts”

The one about scouting. (King even pronounced my name correctly).

Basic answer: Character and hockey sense are priorities in all Islanders scouting.

Carry on.

In this new post here.

Was hoping this post could more for power rankings and solution-y talk, so people can review the clip and/or my notes (if you don’t want to watch) in that one.

What operating system and web browser are you using?

Or rather, a quicker solution might be found by emailing that issue and those details (OS, browser) to support@sbnation.com. Never heard of this issue before.

Seemed more of a good cop/bad cop drill — Capuano clearly held Weight back at one point, probably that boiling point between having your say and getting a bench minor.

I have no strong opinion on who should rant at the refs, and by how much, behind the bench. If Weight does the ranting for the staff and players, that doesn’t seem crazy to me. But like you suggest there may be larger questions about Capuano’s ability to get the most out of this squad.

I wouldn’t doubt that “family” and also internal loyalty is a part of his decision-making process. The amount of time he stuck with Milbury indeed being an example. I’ve also heard if you cross him, look out.

Or at least traded for or signed a big name(not saying he should have yet or shouldn’t have yet). Bringing in a top 6 forward with a notable name would have sold some tickets and added depth, but he didn’t. Bringing in a top 4 d-man with a notable name or a “visually appealing game”/aka-lots of hitting or great puckmoving abilities, would have sold tickets. Signing Ehrhoff, for better or worse, would have sold noticably more tix. Signing Richards(as a what if), would have sold a lot of tickets. Ticket sales don’t seem to be his biggest concern. Winning now doesn’t seem to be his biggest concern. He has or he and garth have bought into a very slow but steady rebuild with minimal spending spent on the team that we ice, and I’m not sure when the checkbook opens. Does the checkbook open after a “top” free agent signs here? After a 1st playoff series appearance in a while? After a 1st playoff series win? Or are we gonna act like the Predators for our foreseeable future under wang and be a minimal spending but eventual competitive team? But likely not a true cup contender without a great coach and great core and solid goaltending and luck. Lots of thinking going on here. I don’t know what the mindset is exactly, but winning now certainly isn’t the main concern. A new coliseum is a big concern, but he’s not putting the talent/players on the ice to show that he has a team worth keeping. I’m not saying he’s done horrible, we need real help other then “building through the draft” to win. Who is a notable pickup that we got that wasn’t an under the radar signing or pickup? Streit and that’s it. Old guerin and old weight don’t close to count. He seems to be doing the bare minimal money wise to ice the best team possible. Garth hasn’t done a bad job, Grabner/Moulson/PAP are genius pickups, although all were arguably “should be” 3rd line quality players that turned out to be more. We got lucky in a few other spots too, Hamonic/A-mac fell into his lap. Garth scouted Ness ahead of Hamonic. But garth also “spends” stupidly, although I don’t know if this has wang impact. Staios on a bonus filled contract, Pandolfo on a bonus filled contract, weight on a bonus filled contract, young players on ELC bonus filled contracts, DP contract, yashin buyout, etc. As JP points out, we are a $28mil team(not counting almost $12mil going towards Rolston/DP/Staios/Pandolfo) playing in a $50mil-$65mil team roster league. We are pretty screwed from the start, so it looks to me that winning now isn’t close to priority number 1, playoff expectations are unrealistic, and we aren’t making the right personnel decisions to ice the best possible team night in and night out-which I think is related to “cutting expenses due to not wanting to spend an extra few hundread or couple million a year for more wins and a better team(Rolston/Pandolfo/Eaton/Mottau/Staios-even)”. End of my rant for now on this.

Soooo true.

Reese is actually the prototypical depth D-man — the waiver system is built to have you lose anyone better (other than prospects). There’s Reese swing men on every NHL chart. It’s the players who are above him and in the NHL that make the overall blueline depth an issue.