Barzal wouldn’t accept a move to wing so something has to give.

I would assume Lou is either unwilling or unable to move Bailey.

I don’t even think he likes splitting faceoffs tbh.

He doesn’t lol. You can tell by his post game interviews . He has reiterated a million times that he prides himself on being a center who can play with anyone

A Kadri signing would be a panic move form Lou. He knows that this team has at most 3 years to contend probably less. Kadri would hurt the cap long tern and it would continue the cycle of being unable to trade off players that are over the age of 30

Barry was always ****ing with him. I don’t even buy the narrative he can’t defend. That’s not the case. Barry was always being a complete pain in the ass about his defense and face offs and hurt Barzy’s development in the process.

Tell that to Lou

I don’t even think isles could clear cap space for him. Look if he was signing the Giroux contract I’d be fine with it. He won’t tho so it’s not worth considering him.

Trotz has never liked young players who Are confident in their games

It’s like when Torts said Duclair can’t defend and doesn’t know how to play lol

Yeah and then Isles fans credit him for Dobby’s development cause he scratched Dobson for one ****ing game. It’s a ****ing joke.

Dobson broke out because a Pulock got injured

Josh Bailey last season: (74 games) 14 goals, 30 assists = 44 points
Josh Anderson last season: (69 games) 19 goals, 13 assists = 32 points

Josh Bailey last 2 seasons: (128 games) 22 goals, 57 assists = 79 points
Josh Anderson last 2 seasons: (121 games) 36 goals, 20 assists = 56 points

Josh Bailey according to Islander fans = 3rd round draft pick (yours is about the 10th ACGM I've seen moving him for nothing or virtually nothing)
Josh Anderson according to Habs fans = 13th overall, or maybe 7th overall, or maybe 5th overall, or maybe . . .

Islanders fans have a deep hatred of Josh Bailey. They were cap dumping him when he was an all star.

He’s not an analytics darling either. But that’s a new complaint lol.

Kadri to the Isles must be true, Lou needs to sign his players or make trades, so probably sometime in the first 2 weeks of training camp/pre season he'll finally get to work.