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The Islanders are entirely reliant on Sorokin being one of the best goalies in the world every single game in order to have a chance at the playoffs. They're not sniffing the top-5 in the conference any time soon. My guess is they're going to do just well enough to keep their draft pick this year, and then next year they'll gift Vancouver a high draft pick. Part of it is I don't think the Islanders are very good, but I also think Florida and Buffalo will clearly be better than them next season. They probably already are even though they're close in the standings. Ottawa, Detroit, and (to a lesser extent) Montreal are getting better. I could easily imagine the Islanders being in the bottom 3 or 4 of the East next season.
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.Spec posted:The Kraken just got Jaycob Megna for a song (4th round pick) and this feels like a sneaky good business for someone who can log minutes and costs next to nothing. Agreed. 20ish minutes a night, some offensive contribution, drives play and decent expecteds, has had good actual outcomes this year as well, and league minimum contract. Nice depth pickup that won't kill you.
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Feb 6, 2023 15:42
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I spat out my take on the Islanders back a bit ago but I think they have some good pieces and under Trotz they had those runs during the covid shortened seasons and that got everyone including Isles management up their own asses about how good their team really was. One, they just managed to play Trotz style hockey excellently under him for those short periods of times when it mattered and Lambert is not Trotz. Two, people bought into the "playoff style hockey!" thing and figured the Isles could grind their way to both the playoffs and through the playoffs. But they lack real depth and there's not enough coming to help them out, and on top of that their real high end forward skill is basically one player. To me they're a bubble team that needs to figure out how to add good young pieces to carry them forward. Maybe Horvat pushes them into "low seed" category for a bit but there's just pieces missing
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Feb 6, 2023 15:50
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I'm excited to see how they follow up these blackjack and Miami Vice all star games with a Toronto themed one. I hope they capture the essence of the city: traffic jams, hot dog carts, and a tower.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:My guess is they're going to do just well enough to keep their draft pick this year, and then next year they'll gift Vancouver a high draft pick. While I certainly don't disagree with any of your points, it's important to remember at the same time that nothing good is allowed to happen to the Vancouver Canucks so the Islanders will be in the finals either this year or next.
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Spelling Mitsake posted:I'm excited to see how they follow up these blackjack and Miami Vice all star games with a Toronto themed one. I hope they capture the essence of the city: traffic jams, hot dog carts, and a tower. Go full on Toronto and sell all the tickets to the ASG to corporate sponsors who won't show up.
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Feb 6, 2023 16:47
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Marino is back for NJ tonight
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Oh man Isles/Flyers tonight. Getting straight into. Excited for some bad boring hockey between 2 evenly matched teams.
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Spelling Mitsake posted:I'm excited to see how they follow up these blackjack and Miami Vice all star games with a Toronto themed one. I hope they capture the essence of the city: traffic jams, hot dog carts, and a tower. - Shoot the puck at a gallery of garbage bins (regular size) and green bins (smaller, for organics). Hit every target and dunk a player into a tank of hungry raccoons. - Players ride the streetcar to the game, only to have it randomly short turn three times and leave them stranded in front of Kessel's second favourite hot dog stand. - Take your hardest shot at any designated piece of Toronto's crumbling infrastructure; whoever takes off the largest chunk wins a no-bid maintenance contract.
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eXXon posted:- Shoot the puck at a gallery of garbage bins (regular size) and green bins (smaller, for organics). Hit every target and dunk a player into a tank of hungry raccoons. Province to grant John Tory the power to select the entire all-star game roster. Rice Group CEO Michael Rice a surprise choice as starting RW but Tories insist his strong play warranted his inclusion.
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Feb 6, 2023 17:33
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All star game will be held in the green belt wetlands. Guess we have to pave over them now.
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Aphrodite posted:This is SAS. It's important we wait for the tired gimmick. I’ve been in a depressive episode. gently caress you.
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Feb 6, 2023 18:29
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No part of that was sarcastic.
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rex rabidorum vires posted:Oh man Isles/Flyers tonight. Getting straight into. Excited for some bad boring hockey between 2 evenly matched teams. Can't wait for Horvat to tally a natural hat trick in the first before his ankles explode in the second and he retires forever https://mobile.twitter.com/AGrossNewsday/status/1622627794919256064 Mr. Fish fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Feb 6, 2023 |
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Feb 6, 2023 18:58
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They added Horvat and it really isn't that much more inspiring in confidence. How very Islanders.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:57
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All of the Islanders players just seem like different shade of the same dude.
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Mr. Fish posted:Can't wait for Horvat to tally a natural hat trick in the first before his ankles explode in the second and he retires forever At least Lou has stacked the cupboard with prospects ready to replace all of these guys in their mid-30’s
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rex rabidorum vires posted:Agreed. 20ish minutes a night, some offensive contribution, drives play and decent expecteds, has had good actual outcomes this year as well, and league minimum contract. Nice depth pickup that won't kill you. Yeah agreed. He'll be nice on the PK, probably play a bit better than Fleury, and if he works out they can let Soucy walk at the end of the year and slot him right in.
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ThinkTank posted:All of the Islanders players just seem like different shade of the same dude. Lou walking out of the Kinkos with 20 Xeroxes of Josh Bailey "It's called MAKIN MOVES."
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Feb 6, 2023 21:47
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I've not seen any evidence that Casey Cizikas and Cal Clutterbuck are different people.
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ThinkTank posted:I've not seen any evidence that Casey Cizikas and Cal Clutterbuck are different people. It's the moustache, that's about all there is. Clutterbuck has a great one, Cizikas looks like he forgot his shaving kit.
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Feb 6, 2023 22:19
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Why did the Isles hire Lou? They actually looked like a rebuilding team with promise a few years back.
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Feb 6, 2023 22:19
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It's an old boys league and Lou is the oldest of the boys.
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Once you are an islander you're an islander for life. Matt Martin tried to get away one time but they just dragged him right back. I just looked it up and they have six players with a decade of seniority or more. Several more have been with the team for 8 seasons. The longest serving Canuck is Brock Boeser who was drafted in 2015.
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Feb 6, 2023 22:25
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 Would you pass up a chance to hire a guy with 500 years of experience?
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Furnaceface posted:Why did the Isles hire Lou? They actually looked like a rebuilding team with promise a few years back. I mean, he did replace Garth Snow
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Feb 6, 2023 22:27
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The Islanders will be paying Rick DiPietro through the end of the decade. He last played a game for them in 2012.
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kill me now posted:I mean, he did replace Garth Snow A bar so low you have to dig down to trip over it, and the Isles almost did hiring him. Just hire Rotten Cookies as GM. Cheaper, 100 years younger, and susceptible to SAS influence. 
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Didn't Garth Snow have one decent off-season where he brought in a few good players?
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I enjoy the exercises like could this potato be a better GM than X if they follow three pretty basic rules for drafting/signings and the answer is almost always yes.
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Schremp Howard posted:I enjoy the exercises like could this potato be a better GM than X if they follow three pretty basic rules for drafting/signings and the answer is almost always yes. If a head of cabbage can outwit and outlast a prime minister a goon can definitely run a professional hockey team.
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im glad we're sticking with this thread, a new thread every month is stupid
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Furnaceface posted:If a head of cabbage can outwit and outlast a prime minister a goon can definitely run a professional hockey team. I would absolutely take the cabbage over Liz Truss as Isles GM
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ThinkTank posted:I've not seen any evidence that Casey Cizikas and Cal Clutterbuck are different people. One of them accidentally killed a guy and is sorry about it while the other is still trying and only sorry he hasn't succeeded yet.
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Koth posted:Didn't Garth Snow have one decent off-season where he brought in a few good players? I remember hearing that DiPietro's contract was being pushed by the owner at the time, Charles Wang. The previous GM Neil Smith (?) didn't like the idea and got poo poo-canned. Then Snow came in with the assumption he'd have to do it to get the job. Dunno if that is true though.
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deoju posted:I remember hearing that DiPietro's contract was being pushed by the owner at the time, Charles Wang. The previous GM Neil Smith (?) didn't like the idea and got poo poo-canned. Then Snow came in with the assumption he'd have to do it to get the job. Dunno if that is true though. My favourite part of the DiPietro thing is the Islanders giving up on Luongo after like one season and trading him away. Related: https://twitter.com/TheFalconer/status/1621679855879479296
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https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1622661379722297345?s=20 this letter to the fans stuff is getting old. "hey we know we're dog poo poo but we're trying real hard please keep giving us money and we promise we'll get better"
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These own. Fun fact: Until DiPietro being taken #1 overall, Luongo was the highest goalie taken at #4. Previously, Tom Barrasso was taken at #5.
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another fun DiPietro fact he is still on the Isles payroll for the next 6 years despite not having played for them in a literal decade
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