Beauviller is literally better than Anderson and cheaper

Mine say different that’s probably the worst argument I’ve ever heard on this site

Not according to Lou. He’s been shopping Beauvillier for 2 years and loves Anderson. Sorry bud.

Lou would legit get on his knees and do unspeakable things to Groton and Hughes for the opportunity to land Anderson.

Lou would legit get on his knees and suck Gorton and Hughes’ cocks for the chance to land Anderson. Guy loves him, Friedman said it himself.

GM’s don’t care about your advanced stats, especially Lou. How many trades/signings need to happen before you realize this?

Friedman never said that, I listen to every podcast. Clearly you don’t know how Lou operates, he doesn’t go for players who are lazy with no hockey sense. Anderson is the last player lou would go after.

Lou wanted a young 2nd pair D to play with his star defenseman , and he got that in Romanov. Hate to break it to you man but Montreal would have to give up multiple 1st rd picks to get lou to take on Anderson.

Beauvillier is Lou’s favorite forward on the isles, it’s weird that you would include him in a trade!

Romanov has very good advanced stats, Lou must be looking at his charts!

-It makes no sense for Montreal to retain only $550K on Anderson's deal for 4 years - either they retain enough to make Anderson a more attractive asset, or the Islander skip the retention and lower the overall acquisition cost. Josh Anderson at 4x$4.95M isn't all that much more valuable than Josh Anderson at 4x$5.5M.

-It makes less sense for the Islanders to give up a 26 year old Anthony Beauvillier with one year left on his deal to get a 29 year old Josh Anderson with 4 years left on his deal. It doesn't matter if Lou "likes these types of players", he's also not an idiot who would give up assets to get Additional Anders Lee. Beau and Anderson have scored at very similar rates in their careers to date (93 G in 408 GP for Beau, 101 in 388 GP for Anderson) with the big difference for me being that Beau is a better playmaker, and that he does better work on the power play (5-6-11 last year in 128 PP minutes playing primarily with Zach Parise/Josh Bailey/Kyle Palmieri/JG Pageau vs. 2-1-3 in 146 PP minutes playing primarily with Cole Caufield/Nick Suzuki/Christian Dvorak/Ryan Poehling).

-Matt Martin makes $1.5M next season, so paying a 4th rounder to shed his contract when you could just bury it for ~$350K in Bridgeport is a waste of an asset.

-Signings-wise, giving 6x$7.5M to Vladimir Tarasenko for his age-32 through -37 seasons is worse than the Kadri deal. At least Nazem knows how to play defense.
-Scott Mayfield isn't signing that cheap again. He gave the Isles a hometown discount on the 5x$1.45M he's playing out now, I can't see him signing for anything less than $3M.
-Jaro Halak will be 38 years old in 2023; in his last 2 seasons he's put up a .904 SV% with a 2.70 GAA. I'd like to think there are better backup goalie options available next summer; hell, I'm sure Lou will be able to convince Semyon Varlamov to stick around cheap.

You've also built a 20-man roster with no cap space, featuring: Anders Lee (33, recent full ACL tear), Vladimir Tarasenko (31, missed 93 out of a possible 127 games in 2019-20/20-21 with a major shoulder surgery), Josh Bailey (34), Brock Nelson (32), JG Pageau (31), Kyle Palmieri (32), Casey Cizikas (32), Cal Clutterbuck (36), and Jaro Halak (38). I'm sure this is not a problem at all, NHL players over 30 are notorious for never missing a game or two with nagging injuries.

Romanov’s advanced stats are very mediocre and he just traded a 13th overall pick for him lol. Lou could give a shxt about advanced stats and he doesn’t hide that fact.

Oh I’m pretty sure the Isles would love to have Anderson at 5.5. I only did the retention so that the trade was possible, otherwise they can’t afford him, but you’re probably right, no retention at all makes more sense. He’s also not 29, he just turned 28 this spring. His deal only brings him to 32. Not bad at all if you value what he brings and the type of style he plays, which we know Lou does, and tons of GM’s do. Friedman specifically said the Canadiens will get a very good return for him. As for as the age difference between he and Beauvillier, I truly don’t think Lou cares. He’s in win now mode, he’ll do whatever he thinks makes him team better now.

You just can’t bring up age as a legitimate argument on any Lou built team. Guys had the oldest roster in the league for like 5 years now.. I think we can assume he’s not going to all of a sudden change and go for a youth movement.. or even care to get younger at all. I could totally see him giving Tarasenko that deal. Fits his MO

You have me on the Mayfield thing. I honestly didn’t know that, I guess they’ll sign a depth player in free agency for cheap then.

I know some of what your saying are your personal feelings. I’m not making this from my perspective. I rarely if ever consider what I would do in any of these armchair GM’s. I do what I think the GM of said team might do. People have a tough time separating how they feel about a player and how a GM might feel about a player.

I mean Gudbransson just got 4 mill a season.. Jack Johnson was still playing in the nhl last year.. won a cup. There are a ton of players fans think are bad that GM’s for whatever reason love. A lot of times it ends up being a mistake, but those bad trades/signings happen every year. Im not saying I make the perfect armchair GM’s, I’m just trying to be realistic. I like doing it with teams I don’t know a ton about. You’re respectful and let me know some of the issues with it and I thank you for that.

Not at all, his analytics are at a 2nd pair level and he’s only 22! Now that old man Trotz is gone , Lou is actively trying to make his team younger and faster!

Actually sources have said isles have 0 interest in anderson. Unfortunately you are making an ACGM that You want to see happen, but it’s not based in reality.

Lou cares about playoff performance more than anything else, which is why he would never trade Beaucillier for anderson.

Beauvillier : 27 points in his last 41 playoff games

Anderson: 9 points in his last 32 playoff games.

One of the main reasons Lou fired Trotz is because Trotz wasn’t using his young players enough, you’ve got it all wrong buddy. Start making some sense

The isles average age of the defense is 25.7 , 3rd youngest in the league !