MoreOfAnIslesGuy

Barzal, deliver us.
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The Islanders will never again be as good as they were. The depression sets in. You realize the two teams you like are trash. You cry hysterically.

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Forum: Armchair-GMJun 2 at 12:51
Thread: Hollands the Man
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>dca919</b></div><div><strong>How quickly they forget:</strong>
I say he messes up<strong> remember Kyle Quincey for Andrei Vasilevskiy</strong>

But it's not just at the deadline. Holland traded for meaningless cap space (when Stamkos wouldn't even return a phone call during the UFA interview period) which later allowed Holland to over pay for Nielsen but cost the team Jakob Chychrun, Marek Zidlicky for a 3rd rounder (Connor Hall), Erik Cole for Mattias Janmark and a 2015 2nd round pick (Roope Hintz), <strong>David Legwand for Calle Jarnkrok and Patrick Eaves and a conditional pick that became a second-rounder (Wings made the playoffs) 46th overall</strong>, getting Robert Lang for Mike Green and Tomas Fleischmann, and that isn't even getting on his case about dumping high draft picks like Petr Mrazek nor Brendan Smith nor Riley Sheahan nor Ryan Sproul nor Tom McCollum for little to nothing.

beyond that my point was Holland was recently criticized because he couldn't pull off a trade to acquire talent save the few he actually completed. He refused to rebuild and was part of the team that wanted to keep the playoff streak alive at any cost.</div></div>

i'm sure he'd have loved to kick off the rebuild five years earlier, but the streak was of paramount importance to the Illitch family.