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Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 7, 2022 at 11:02 a.m.

Thread: Arthur Staple final podcast

I get the Chychrun hype, but man... it's just a lot for a team like the isles to pay when they're so asset poor as it is.

Is there any prospect in the system that is an NHL guarantee like Raty? Everyone else is a bottom tier player at best.

And to top it off, I just don't see him being the player to bring them over the top. It's clearly an elite forward and a middle pairing dman is what's needed. An elite dman helps, but it'll be more of the same.

Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 2, 2021 at 4:51 p.m.

Thread: Most likely roster based on rumors

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>islesadist</b></div><div>Apologize lol</div></div>

Lol crazy timing. I apologize.

I don't understand why they did that deal, but I'm happy about it.

Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 1, 2021 at 9:20 a.m.

Thread: 2022-23 Blues

Noooooooooooooo

Please no more isles/blues trades. Isles don't want to move mayfield and the tarasenko trade won't work. That's it.

Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 1, 2021 at 9:19 a.m.

Thread: Most likely roster based on rumors

I don't think the rumor/likely scenario for Sorokin is a three year deal. It makes no sense for the player or the team to sign anything more than a 1 year deal.

Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 30, 2021 at 2:24 p.m.

Thread: Isles pick off the offersheet scraps

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>JeffSkinnerFan53</b></div><div>Admittedly yes but I think they'd want at least a 7th on top.</div></div>

My thoughts are the Canes main need is to get out from Gardiner's deal. Taking Hickey would allow the isles to work it cap wise and, as another Cane's fan posted, would be a 7th D for you. If the isles need to throw in a 7th rounder or something that low, so be it, but i think the value is there for both sides.

Is he a Trotz player? Nope. But (at the moment) the only option the isles have are moving greene up or playing a prospect at 4LD which I think Trotz would hate more. Mayfiled has enough stability to handle Gardiner's liabilities.

I think there is a deal to be made here. The fundamentals are fine, it's just the fine details.

Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 30, 2021 at 10:02 a.m.

Thread: Tarasenko

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>nikel29</b></div><div>Why would they decline? Lmao.
If that all it took, Tara would be in Long Island by now.
St. Louis declines.</div></div>

Isles decline not because of value, but because of need. They don't have a replacement for Mayfield (who not only is a top 4 dman on the team, but is on a very good contract which helps the isles tremendously)

they currently have a hold for a 2nd pair LHD. The last thing they need is to extend that to the 2RHD as well.

Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 25, 2021 at 9:57 a.m.

Thread: Hold on just got this idea as i was about to sleep

Isles aren't trading mayfiled unless they get a RHD back.

His contract is too good and they have a hole on LHD already, they can't have holes on both sides.

Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 18, 2021 at 9:53 a.m.

Thread: Sorokins new deal

It doesn't make sense for either party to sign anything more than 1 year.

Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 13, 2021 at 11:56 a.m.

Thread: LD revamp

Personally, I don't think a dramatic revamp on the left side is needed.

Get a guy that could be a stop gap for a couple years, someone like ekholm is perfect but he'd probably cost too much.

Guys like Salo and Buldoc might be ready by 2022/23 season. If we're lucky both will pan out and the left side is set.

Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 2, 2021 at 8:45 a.m.

Thread: Reading the tea leaves DISCUSSION

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Chooch</b></div><div>Blues not interested in Bailey</div></div>

And Vlad isn't interested in the Blues.

Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 30, 2021 at 9:18 a.m.

Thread: My Rumors lol

Isles make this trade and I quit watching permanently.

I mean what do the isles even get out of this? They trade a top 6 forward and their top 4 RD, which has no replacement at the moment, for a questionable forward and scraps

Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 23, 2021 at 10:47 a.m.

Thread: a world i wanna live in

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Trotz2020</b></div><div>Way too much to dump those contracts. Leo should be for a single 2nd rounder and Hickey maybe a fourth. Hickey can be bought out for under 1m. I wouldn’t even trade him.</div></div>

I over sold knowing there would be an AGM in here saying it's too little.

Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 21, 2021 at 8:19 p.m.

Thread: Keep it simple

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Isles777</b></div><div>Yeah I get that but we just got out of cap hell, at his age he might only have another 2 years of being an NHL caliber D. At that point I’d rather sign someone like McCabe/kulikov for less $ and term</div></div>

ok so if they can i’m sure they will. just wanted to give my thoughts.

Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 21, 2021 at 8:02 p.m.

Thread: Keep it simple

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Isles777</b></div><div>This would be fine - why 4 years for Suter? That takes him to his age 40 season.</div></div>

my thought process is we give him term to offset price. He will be suited from other teams so isles will need to be competitive

Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 28, 2021 at 10:46 a.m.

Thread: changes

I just don't understand why the whole team went into the line blender after getting someone that would supplement Lee's loss. Play the lineup that wonyou games and put the top line talent where you lost top line talent. That's all.

Why force Zajac into the lineup? Why bench Dobson for Coburn? Why put bailey on the top line?

I love trotz and am in no position to question him, but I don't understand the line of thinking here

Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 31, 2021 at 9:03 a.m.

Thread: its simple

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Isles777</b></div><div>I disagree. What is trotz issue with reuniting beau-barzal-eberle? They were on the ice for 20 seconds the other night and beau scored a goal.

You can’t win many games when your coach is neutering your star center with one of the worst players in the NHL.</div></div>

Aren't you just pushing the problem to the other lines then? I think it'll win a game here and there, but the team won't dominate the way they were before. Don't get me wrong, I don't like komarov near the top line. But even with the lineup you proposed, I can't see them winning the way they did before.

Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 30, 2021 at 10:50 a.m.

Thread: its simple

I think I've come to the conclusion that no amount of blendering the lines will fix what's going on. End of the day, team lost their leading goal scorer and power forward. Can't replace that with line shuffles. Maybe they can steal a game or two by changing the lines, but end of the day only way to get the train back on the tracks is through a trade.

Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 26, 2021 at 2:33 p.m.

Thread: Sabres

buffalo fans been off their rocker lately

Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 25, 2021 at 2:54 p.m.

Thread: Sellers at TDL

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OldNYIfan</b></div><div>I thought yesterday we'd seen the worst Islanders trade ever:

https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/432341

but this one is worse.

<a href="/users/Gortonsfishsticks" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@Gortonsfishsticks</a></div></div>

Oh my lord... Did Buffalo change their water supply to stupid juice or something? Is this a competition by buffalo fans to see who can come up with worse trades for the isles?

Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 25, 2021 at 2:52 p.m.

Thread: Sabres need miracle

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Sabresforlife</b></div><div>How can this be the worst trade you've seen when I got the idea from here https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2288887</div></div>

I didn't see that one. Now that I did, I can still say this is the worst trade I've seen because you saw how horrible that trade was AND NOT ONLY copied it, but ADDED another asset to it.

Thanks for making this even more laughable

Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 24, 2021 at 8:53 p.m.

Thread: Sabres need miracle

this is it. This isles trade is single-handedly the worst trade I've seen on this website. I'm screenshotting this.

Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 23, 2021 at 9:36 a.m.

Thread: Two Years On

Isles deff say yes, figured buff would want more.

Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 23, 2021 at 9:34 a.m.

Thread: Need it explained

I think it was a comment on the althletic that I saw, but they made a good point that Komarov on the first line might give barzal a bit more incentive to carry the puck straight then east/west. With bellows on the line he tried to be too fancy again and messed with his game. Having Komarov there, he acts like a very bad Lee and just becomes a net front presence cause there's not much else he can do. Almost like a decoy for the other team to give Barzy more space.

With that said I fully disagree with Komarov being up there, but trotz is a stanley cup winning coach and I'm sipping margaritas on the beach so what the hell do I know.

Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 23, 2021 at 9:22 a.m.

Thread: Just do the 1st for hall

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SevenLeg</b></div><div>Maybe not as a 4th line grinder</div></div>

Haha, that's pretty weird. I had him up on the first but I guess when I made some other adjustments to the team it put him down there.

Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 22, 2021 at 2:40 p.m.

Thread: After the TDL

Isles say yes in a heartbeat and lou gets a celebratory filet mignon cause he can't believe how bad he fleeced the habs

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