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Forum: Armchair-GM18 hours ago
Thread: Horvat Chychrun
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>bensartena</b></div><div>Everybody complaining about trading 1st round picks LMAOOO. The majority of mid to late first rounders are busts. Islanders "big time prospect" that they've traded was a 2nd round pick just two years ago. Lou has seemed to hit on multiple mid and late round picks that are producing at high level in the OHL and minor. This illusion of how highly rated mid/late firsts are is so stupid. With that being said they will not trade 2 firsts and a 4th for Chychrun.</div></div>

Some mid round firsts from 2019 draft - lundell, Jarvis , Mercer, Schneider , Holloway. Isles fans are brainwashed into thinking that drafting is a crapshoot when it’s really not. The isles just care about building the oldest and slowest roster in the nhl
Forum: NHLYesterday at 7:49 p.m.
Thread: 2022-23 NHL Season Discussion Thread #9: Bruce, There it Goes
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>mondo</b></div><div>I'm trying to get people to talk about what analytics/methods/things they use to determine how good a player is defensively. Feel like the conversation needs to move beyond arguing if charts are actually good or not and maybe trying to understand what the charts are saying and what their limitations are. Or when you watch the game what things you notice a player does to be good defensively.</div></div>

It’s hard for the casual fan to evaluate a players defensive impact because it’s usually things like being in good position and having your stick in lanes preventing a pass that contribute to good analytics. When you’re watching a game it’s not easy to remember every single action from a certain player. Offensive impact is a bit easier to judge from the eye test , but even then you still need to use a mix of analytics / eye test

Most Fans measure defensive impact by work ethic/hits/physicality
Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 2:26 p.m.
Thread: Combining a couple of ideas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hawkisles</b></div><div>Too late to make that argument. We’ve already sold off half of our farm, there’s no undoing the trade.

Also, “there’s nothing they can add to make them a playoff team”? What??? The Isles are two points behind PIT and three points behind WSH. How is this team too far gone?

Look, I don’t know if you just don’t like the Isles or are in too deep on a ridiculous opinion to back down, but I think it’s clear that you’re going to doompost on the Isles one way or another.</div></div>

Pittsburgh and Buffalo both ahead of the isles with 3 games in hand. Both are much better teams, even with horvat. When the isles miss the playoffs, I’ll come back to this thread. It isn’t much of a hot take.

How is it ridiculous? The isles have proven that they are nothing more than a .500 team over the past 2 seasons. Last season it was blamed on Covid, what’s this years excuse?

Just so we’re clear , i have said that i won’t be content until the isles rebuild. They are a terrible team with one of the worst rosters in the league. If I tried to persuade you into believing in the Arizona coyotes becoming contenders, would you believe me? No. So why would I value an opinion with rose colored glasses. There is no realistic outline for the isles to make the playoffs anytime soon
Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 12:26 p.m.
Thread: Combining a couple of ideas
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Hawkisles</b></div><div>The more I’ve seen of Wahlstrom, the more I think he hasn’t been a good fit for our system, even after Trotz left. If we can resign Tank and Bo, that bus us at least two years of contention before we have to consider rebuilding. Besides, Wahlstrom won’t be back from injury this year anyways.</div></div>

Wahlstrom is a top 5 player on the team this season. I think these tales are from years of being brainwashed that young players aren’t reliable and can’t be trusted in key situations

That being said, I’m fine with the trade because the isles need to be humbled. Wahlstrom is already better than Tarasenko and will thrive on the blues.


You might not realize it now, but this era starting right now and through the decade will be worse than the Milbury years.
Forum: NHLYesterday at 12:20 p.m.
Thread: 2022-23 NHL Season Discussion Thread #9: Bruce, There it Goes
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MatthewsFan</b></div><div><div class="tweet"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/isles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#isles</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Canucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#Canucks</a> Live look at the Canucks' GM.(I swear I'm not mean.) <a href="https://t.co/AjSTZ9XTPD" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://t.co/AjSTZ9XTPD</a> <a href="https://t.co/LgVGWeG4xI" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/LgVGWeG4xI</a></p>— Matt (@islanders_takes) <a href="https://twitter.com/islanders_takes/status/1620308028359868416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">January 31, 2023</a></blockquote>

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Isles fans should look up sunken cost fallacy