Could This Actually Work

Created by: ForsbergForVezina

Team: 2021-22 New York Islanders

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 15, 2021

Published: Aug. 15, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Keep seeing the “Dermott to NYI” trade in Leafs ACGMs and I always kinda blow them off because Leafs fans just dump whoever on us and it’s cool….

However, I’ve been thinking about this one a little more lately and I been wondering if it could be good for us. Dermott is still young, put up strong defensive metrics every year of his career and is on a pretty good contract for the next two years. I haven’t watched him play a ton, so I don’t have a good sense of his play style and I’ve heard from Leafs fans that his consistency and decision-making hasn’t always been the best….which were basically the same overarching issues we had with Nick Leddy….

My concerns with Dermott, based on what I do know are 1. A lack of offense and 2. The low hockey IQ and bad decision-making. However, he’s more of a known commodity than Hickey or Aho are as of now, one of whom is being penciled into the 2LD spot as of now. So I’m curious to know what other Isles fans (or whoever) think. Honestly, I really want to give Sebastian Aho some run in that position, so I’d need some convincing, but there are worse options I suppose.

Also we have a lot of cap space, with or without Komarov….

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Beauvillier, Anthony	6	$4,750,000
Golyshev, Anatoly	1	$925,000
Koivula, Otto	1	$750,000
Sorokin, Ilya	1	$3,200,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Palmieri, Kyle	5	$4,500,000
Parise, Zach	1	$750,000
Zajac, Travis	1	$750,000
Cizikas, Casey	6	$2,600,000

Trades

NYI

Dermott, Travis

TOR

2022 3rd round pick (NYI)

NYI

FCs

ANA

Bellows, Kieffer [RFA Rights]
Komarov, Leo

Buyouts

Rick DiPietro: $0

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$77,629,188	$1,365,854	$1,325,000	$3,870,812

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Lee, Anders $7,000,000$7,000,000 LW NTC UFA - 5	Barzal, Mathew $7,000,000$7,000,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Palmieri, Kyle $4,500,000$4,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Beauvillier, Anthony $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 3	Nelson, Brock $6,000,000$6,000,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Bailey, Josh $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW, C UFA - 3
Parise, Zach $750,000$750,000 LW UFA - 1	Pageau, Jean-Gabriel $5,000,000$5,000,000 C NTC UFA - 5	Wahlstrom, Oliver $894,167$894,167 ($537,500$538K) RW RFA - 2
Martin, Matt $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Cizikas, Casey $2,600,000$2,600,000 C UFA - 6	Clutterbuck, Cal $3,500,000$3,500,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Pelech, Adam $5,750,000$5,750,000 LD UFA - 8		Varlamov, Semyon $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Dermott, Travis $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Pulock, Ryan $5,000,000$5,000,000 RD UFA - 1
Greene, Andy $750,000$750,000 ($250,000$250K) LD/RD UFA - 1	Mayfield, Scott $1,450,000$1,450,000 RD UFA - 2	Sorokin, Ilya $3,200,000$3,200,000 G UFA - 3
	Dobson, Noah $894,167$894,167 ($537,500$538K) RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Zajac, Travis $750,000$750,000 C UFA		Boychuk, Johnny $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 1
Pánik, Richard $1,375,000$1,375,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Aho, Sebastian $725,000$725,000 LD UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Golyshev, Anatoly $925,000$925,000 ($0$0$0$0) LW, RW UFA - 1
Johnston, Ross $1,000,000$1,000,000 ($0$0$0$0) LW UFA - 1
Hickey, Thomas $2,500,000$2,500,000 ($1,375,000$1M$1,375,000$1M) LD UFA - 1
Hutton, Grant $725,000$725,000 ($0$0$0$0) RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Aug. 15, 2021 at 9:11 p.m.

UBS_ARENA

Joined: Aug. 2021

Posts: 2,389

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I like dermott but only as a 3rd pair guy. I think a
Dermott-Mayfield 3rd pair would be awesome. They'd fit perfectly and would be a decent 2nd pair playing 3rd for ~3 million for 2 years.
Also why move Leo and bellows if we have all that cap space. Leo is overpaid but he's still useful and bellows is a decent prospect that we lose for no reason.

Aug. 15, 2021 at 9:14 p.m.

ForsbergForVezina

CHI NYI

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 4,661

Likes: 2,253

Quoting: UBS_ARENA

I like dermott but only as a 3rd pair guy. I think a
Dermott-Mayfield 3rd pair would be awesome. They'd fit perfectly and would be a decent 2nd pair playing 3rd for ~3 million for 2 years.

I’m with you. Mayfield, imo, is a 3rd pairing defenseman himself but he fits the system well enough that he works on the 2nd pair. Maybe you get that with Dermott; maybe not. But if not, that 2nd pair is just as questionable as it was last season, which is something I think they really needed to improve this offseason

Aug. 15, 2021 at 9:15 p.m.

HappyKampfers

Drover006

Joined: Feb. 2021

Posts: 1,448

Likes: 494

Dermott is smart imo. He has one bonehead play in the playoffs and he's been improving every year again imo. I think he's better at being the defensive pair on his line (very small sample size) as for value I have no clue.

He's not a cap dump but what excatly do you give to get a guy who pays a little 2nd pair and mostly 3rd pair and a little 7d?

Aug. 15, 2021 at 9:23 p.m.

ForsbergForVezina

CHI NYI

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 4,661

Likes: 2,253

Quoting: DroverD2

2nd or 3rd rounder I would say, especially if the Isles were to see him as a second pair guy. Hasn’t proven himself in that kind of role yet, so there’s too much risk to justify giving any more than that imo.

I considered adding Bellows or Aho into the trade, but I didn’t think Toronto had any need for them, especially Bellows

Aug. 15, 2021 at 9:28 p.m.

mitchmarner16

Joined: Feb. 2021

Posts: 1,975

Likes: 841

Dermott is good at defending the rush. He can kill penalties if you need him to. He can move the puck ok.
I would take a 3rd and 4th if I’m TOR

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