Islanders on Waivers: Wishart, Reese, Frischmon, Wallace, Marcinko

With other teams checking out their own prospects, they may not want or need to pick up someone else and he slips. I’m not the biggest Wishart fan, but I’d hate to see them having given up Roloson for nothing. But maybe some more AHL time would be a good thing for him.

Also, Another case where the isles have the benefit of cap space. Many other cases the teams trying to clear room.

Isles can slip him by perhaps

Eventually Garth and company are going to whiff and give up on the wrong player.

Yeah, that concern always worries me. It’s inevitable.

I’ve always thought the toughest part of a rebuild isn’t the lottery days, but the decisions you make once you finally have enough decent bodies to make tough decisions. They’re starting to near that point. The CBA and waiver rules are set up so you can only horde young talent for so long.

If claimed I wouldn’t figure Wishart to be “the one that got away,” but I would be really worried that they will need him this year more than whoever else would step in.

my recs are coming up as “flags”
and when the reply box opens the word “SUBJECT” is in the subject line.

What is happening to my living room… I feel a draft and I don’t knwo where it’s coming from.

I like — mind if I use it for other players?

The worst part about potentially losing Wishart is that we had already been supplied with a nickname for him.

And is the Top Prospects like the new pro*et**ns thing? They don’t get injured per se, just waived?

But I guess my point is….if we as fans have Stanley Cup aspirations for the Isles, we should be talking about depth/borderline roster guys that are on the same level as say, Blake Comeau and Milan Jurcina…..not Rakhshani and Wishart. To me, it appears more like hopeful/wishful thinking versus realistic assessment and projection of their hockey talents and forecasted contributions at the NHL level.

Given the more highly touted products in the pipeline….chances are these two guys were going to be off the radar within 1-2 years anyways. So no one should lose sleep even if (in the unlikely event that) some other (dumbass) team claims Wishart.

Multiple people in this thread have cited “Most Isles fans thought he was the worst player last night” as the rationale for waiving.

This is common thinking. Bailey had a few good games at the start of last season? Ready the HOF induction.

Less graphic though. I’m still eating lunch.

Hmm, I’m not sure about overrated. I don’t think anyone really thinks he will ever be a top4 d-man or anything. But I do think he’s better than Eaton, Mottau, Staios — which is an exceptionally low bar, of course.

It is really gonna suck seeing him playing for the BJs. :(

I don’t know, smoke another one.

And I’d rather keep him around then some of our borderline forwards, especially since last year we carried 8 Dmen for most of the year.

thanks!

keep mouth shut if in bar with keith.

about “guidos” here.

As an FBI I just took all your ignorance in stride.

It’s a term, a label… whatever. But it needs to be digested in context. Like every other word we use. And “hateful” speach is the last thing this country needs to be worried about.
I’d rather be a “f***ing WOP” than a hedge fund manager.
If I called you a mick c*** sucker, ten minutes later we’d probably hug it out and have a beer. If I found out that you were the guy who laid off half my workforce so he could trigger his golden parachute… then one of us is leaving in the back of an ambulance.
See… it’s all about context.

But Keith, don’t those drunken Irishmen deserve whatever they have coming?

There’s those key words and then there are the added flavor jokes. Imagine this, someone makes a black joke about fried chicken. Is that okay? Is it only wrong if the person makes the joke and then attaches the word n•••••••r?

but I mean, c’mon the Irish are terrible.

Interesting/funny related story about ethnic derogatories. I was in New Orleans recently (first time, amazing time-the food is incredible), and was wandering around in one of the cemeteries because I’m a big history dork (like working on a PhD in it big), and came across a monument that struck me as interesting. I googled it while I was walking around, and it ended up being related to an even I was familiar with-perhaps the largest mass lynching in American history of 11 Italians. But I didn’t know a lot of the backstory, about a trial, and the events leading up to Americans first learning about the mafia. But the payoff was what Wikipedia relays as the guy’s alleged last words (last line if you’re lazy).

is cool. this is way too deep a subject for me to argue sober.
But I ask this:
Have we effectively legislated against genocide in this country, or globally?
wow… just had to erase a two pager because my atheistic views on world peace get in the way of my hockey agenda sometimes.

Do you think SImmonds would have hidden it if he called him a racist term? This is a bit of work that Avery feels close to, so I’m not surprised he said something…just as I wouldn’t be surprised if the shoe was on the other foot…but again, if you wouldn’t be surprised if Simmonds would say something in that scenario, you may just not equate racism and homophobia.

Which is fine by the way…being a completely average 38 year old straight white man, I’m not sure I could understand any of those perspectives.

I do believe Avery is an asshole here…I just think that even if it was Frans Nielsen, the same language would have been used and if caught, the same outcome would have been reached.

he can’t call a press conference…the Rangers would never let him…what he did was walk into his locker room after a game. And nobody would be “taking anything out” on Simmonds if Simmonds didn’t say what he said. You make it sound like the guy was on the phone and someone overheard him. He was screaming what is considered to be a derogatory slur toward a particular subset of people across an entire ice rink and you’re going to tell me no one else heard it?

My biggest point is, we don’t have clear video of someone saying “hey, your wife is a gold digging bitch, I heard she divorced you because you can’t get it up”…and honestly, even if we did, that is a 1:1 issue between two people. When multiple millions of people see something that defames a group of millions of other people, either by show or for real, somebody should address it.

When you’re catatonic, we’ll still turn the Isles games on for you.