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If I'm Lamoriello, I say no to the first trade. Koskinen has minimal value to the Islanders as a backup goalie about to go UFA, so if you break the trade down to its component parts, you're looking at Varlamov for a 1st and Mayfield for Barrie. I think the Islanders would say yes to the 1st part, but no to the 2nd because it doesn't fill a need. Mayfield's a penalty-killing RD3 with a $1.45M cap hit this year and next; Barrie is more of an RD2/PP QB with two more years of a $4.5M cap hit after this one. Islanders already have Pulock with a $6.15M cap hit and Dobson needing an RFA raise starting next year, so I think they're going to want to go more economical for RD3 and use those assets elsewhere in the lineup.