Islanders Bits: Back to Hockey Now

I agree and would go further. Who cares if the game isn’t competitive? The players have fun, the skills competition is great and hopefully no one gets hurt. I get fans not loving it, but there’s an easy solution-don’t watch.

with a NMC or NTC to kick in pretty soon. Not sure the Isles want any part of that. I sure don’t.

is more about him being a sourpuss who doesn’t want to play in Columbus. He pouted right after the trade and, although the injuries don’t help, hasn’t exactly been lights out when he’s played. If he wanted to play for the Islanders, A. I’d be shocked and B. I’d seriously look into bringing him in. I think he and Parenteau would work well together. I don’t know if I’d trade Okposo (or Nino) plus a first, which is what it would take.

The problem then would be having not one but two guys with million year contracts. Now, if the Blue Jackets took back DIPeitro, who agreed to retire so they could save a ton of cap space…

Of course, I have no idea how my own salary works, let alone those of NHL players, so everything I just wrote might be complete BS.

Chevette probably wouldn’t get those numbers now, but the methodology actually has more to do with adjusting to changes in people’s driving. Basically people used to drive a lot slower and a lot less aggressively, hence getting better mileage.

It’s more what it represented, the “five? Why not make it 10?” contract that followed, and how it all fit in to Milbury’s piss poor asset management overall that makes me sad.

Agree on Ottawa — that also crossed my mind as Chara referred to old teammates in Ottawa: “Wow…Ottawa let him walk to keep Redden.”

It was not the same race in the NHL from last year to this year, so really it could have been different for the AHL, too.

Does that mean a Nabokov deal is in the works? Or that someone got hurt again?

Thanks!

I think full no-trade means the player can block any trade he doesn’t like, but can be traded with his consent. A partial means he can block a trade, but there is a list of teams he can be traded to without his consent.

It means that there are no exceptions. Some players have a limited NTC in which they must specify at least X teams they can be traded to – in effect, pre-approval to waive the clause in the case of any of those teams. Full NTC means that he cannot be dealt without his consent to anyone.

Is that Wallace will be a healthy scratch as well as Poulin and Rakh will be on the 4th line with pandolfo and Niño while Rolston continues to shoot Bailey’s passes from 145 degree angles.

The thing here is, no matter what they do, I won’t feel like they went far enough. I mean, let’s say the line is MMa/JB/RR, the 4th line staying NN/JP/TW is still stupid.

I’m just thinking they are going to be working five game auditions for the rest of the season trying to individually evaluate guys without trying to see how chemistry will work throughout the lineup…and trying not to screw up BPT’s streak too badly.

Honestly, I wish Resoner was healthy right now, because things could look like.

MM/JT/KO
MG/FN/PAP
DU/JB/RR
MMa/MR/NN

And you could roll those with probably very little drop off…except when Eaton/Jurcina is on the ice.