This is a worse team than present. You're not taking your top FO % guy and bumping him to a W to play a 19 year old. Second Nashville is NEVER taking Bailey $$$$. Look at all the teams that are providing space to the teams that need (AZ, ANH etc). You have to dump Bailey to one of them and attach a first and hope to maybe get a 4th or if your lucky a third back. Bellows game is not there. Send him to cpa strapped MIN who needs a young F for bottom six or the roster in general and take back a Goglioski (RD) for a year and try to move Mayfield since some teams like him.

But all these are just for fun so never take the comments personally. It's great to see fans interact and try. There should be anger amongst the comments.

Haha I love that we all have different views on things, It's not personal. I think Räty is ready for a 3C job and Pageau can still take the FOs and be the responsible player on that line. Kurz and several other reporters are pretty confident in Bailey having value across the league, I don't know if it's true, but that is the word. I would gladly pay a pick for someone to take him lol. You don't have to pay a 1st to get rid of him though, no way. I wouldn't mind giving Bellows away either. There is NO way this team is worse than the present though, Tkachuk and Milano are great additions lol.

I think it’s a fair trade, might have to include one of Wahlstrom/Raty and remove Beauvillier IMO.

I think Dobson gets 2 years for that $

Yeah I recognize that, It's a "dream-scenario"... Dobson should get paid A LOT, but once again, the only perk of having Lou as a GM is the contracts imo, I wouldn't be shocked if he signs Dobson on a way cheaper bridge-deal or even a long-term contract than he deserves and we expect.

What do you think happens going forward? I can't believe Ledecky/Malkin will settle for nothing for a 5th straight year with their investment in UBS etc...

I don’t know what happens next but if Lou signs kadri I want Barzal to request a trade lol

Yeah same. I don't think Lou will sign Kadri... Not J.T. Miller either, he's too stubborn, that trade broke and that's the end of it imo... I think he will trade for Tarasenko, I have a strong gut feeling about that.. it's just a mess, I'm currently looking for a "2nd team" to root for, it's just too painful being an Islander fan at the moment lol.

Yeah this team sucks to root for. Stuck in the past, refuse to evolve

Yeah I hate it... We're stuck in purgatory hell, not good enough to compete for a cup, not bad enough to get a top ten pick. The worst. We should have drafted Frank Nazar...

Lol I wanted Nazar so bad but I was just content Lou at least traded the pick for a player under the age of 28

Absolutely, but I'm still sad Nazar was picked with our pick, he was the dream at 13th, imo he is and will be a top-5 player from this draft, if it all pans out he could be the next Barzal. I like Romanov and I think he could be a really good 2-4 D, especially learning from Pelech and playing with Pulock/Dobson but still, the upside with Nazar is enormous....

CGY likely accepts if you replace Beauvillier with Wahlstrom

That sounds fair, you got a deal.