Équipe: 2022-23 Islanders de New York

Date de création initiale: 26 avr. 2022

Publié: 26 avr. 2022

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

THE SIGNINGS
-Nichushkin gets 5x$5.5M. He's a top 6 player on this team - he adds his finishing ability to an already sound defensive game and fits incredibly well in this Islanders' system.

-Dobson gets a bridge. Not ideal, but give him a decent AAV for 2 years and hopefully he notices all that cap room hiding out in the 2024 offseason. You'll pay more than you want for him then, but it's the price of doing business if you want to also upgrade the current team.

-Kept all the pending RFAs at $750-900K and stuck most of them in Bridgeport. Bellows & Salo make the NHL squad as depth players. Also re-signed Grant Hutton & Ken Appleby for more depth - Hutton has looked okay in his cup of coffee and Appleby has (extremely limited) NHL experience as a 3rd goalie in the system.

THE TRADES

-Tried to find a home for Josh Bailey. Dallas is tight against the cap and is presumably moving on from Alex Radulov this summer, and they need a top 6 wing this summer. I don't think you'll get a 0.5-6/PPG player for 2x$3.5M in UFA, and all Dallas throws back is a lottery ticket prospect and a 5th. I picked Damiani because he has decent AHL numbers but isn't considered a slam-dunk prospect, but not necessarily married to him as the return.

-Soucy is a great target for the Islanders, and I think this gives decent value back to Seattle for a pending UFA. A 3rd rounder, a Wilde-card prospect (get it? GET IT?), and a solid roster player on a very cheap contract. They can give Panik some run in the first half and flip him out at the deadline for a good return since Detroit is already eating half his contract. Again, think there's wiggle room in this package, but feel like it doesn't have to be tweaked TOO much to make it work.

-GOALIE TRADE! This is the new trade making the rounds here on ACGM - Vegas moving on from Lehner's 3x$5M to try and stabilize their goalie situation. I feel like Lehner wouldn't have the Islanders on his NTC, so no worry there. Both goalies are putting up similar numbers this year so the difference to me comes in the contract and the age. Lehner has the advantage in age but the worse contract, so Vegas would kick in a little sweetener to the Isles for taking those 2 extra years off their hands. I threw in an extra little treat because the Isles would have enough room to retain a little on Varlamov's single year, and we all know that Vegas is searching for any cap space they can.

Let me know how ~terrible~ you think this is~

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