Just absolute hilarious work by Lou

They played exactly zero games with a 100% healthy Barzal, Horvat, Engvall, Palmieri, and Wahlstrom in the lineup at the same time. Let's see how they look with all those guys playing together before we say the team is going nowhere.

sometimes you gotta zig (sign middle-6/middle-pair guys to 7 year deals) when the rest of the league zags (not doing that).

overall though, his summer isn't as bad as some others have had. he signed Sorokin to arguably an under-market extension; he got rid of Josh Bailey for a 2nd rounder 3 drafts away; and the only guys he overextended were at least guys that have shown they can be successful with this team (Mayfield, Engvall, Varlamov.) I'd rather Lou have that type of summer than what he did last summer, when all he did was trade #13OA for Alex Romanov and sign a ton of Bridgeport Islanders (the only UFAs he brought in that got NHL ice time were Hudson Fasching, Nikita Soshnikov, and Dennis Cholowski.)

I think he did a great job this offseason... Islanders will be in contention by the trade deadline and at that point they will have accrued cap space and will make a move for either a LHD and/or another playmaker. This team is more than good enough to compete and probably the best forward group the Islanders have had in decades