How did we get here? Did we take a wrong left turn at Albuquerque? The Isles season with Jack Capuano at the tiller should have been finished shortly after late October. The Isles had just blown another 3rd period, allowing the Penguins 3 goals and take the game. It was a text book Capuano fixture to his tenure, where a lack of ... Read More »
A GM who builds his team based on analytics best practices and drafts conducted by their Director of Analytics since 2006 is bound to piss off an old-time coach eventually. When the pressure built last season there were rumblings of a discord between Capuano and internal staff. There was also blowback from players on Capuano’s methods. Overall, most veteran ... Read More »
It is funny to read rumors and conjecture…and the panic and passion all tied to it as if it is the ONLY route. Right now the entire NHL is waiting with bated breath to get final word if the Salary Cap is getting rolled back a bit, or moving up a tick. This really dictates much of what we ... Read More »
According to some fans and writers, we can afford ANYTHING this summer! Let’s all get excited! How? Well that is where it gets interesting… The current mantra is that everyone wants to “dump” contracts. How exactly do you do that? Reality is if you trade Bailey whomever takes him will want you to take a contract back or ... Read More »
Last night was one of those games you don’t shake off. You don’t shake it off as a writer, a fan, player or coach. Witness Islander’s coach Jack Capuano harping on Brian Boyle’s elbow in the press conference. It is wonderful selective memory to harp on that when the Islanders simply fell apart as Tampa ramped up pressure late ... Read More »
Looking at Game 1 Analytically last night was no banner game for the NY Islanders. But, as I cited in our last blog, these games are more about how a best player and goalie play as opposed to looking at the Corsi stats for players…. Which is why and what mattered in game 1. Best player and best goalie in ... Read More »
We wrote before about the deep thinking the NY Islanders have to do on Kyle Okposo this season. Let us now go one step further and list out the difficulties to this situation and why this will likely remain something pending for the rest of the season. If you have been following my tweets this past summer, then ... Read More »
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There will be an ongoing theme of concerns across the blogosphere as writers astutely pinpoint problems for many teams at the cap ceiling. With the cap no longer going upward, the expanding waistlines of cap ceiling teams will now have problems. If not now…. soon. KuklasKorner on how the NY Rangers are going to feel the squeeze as cap ... Read More »
Back at the beginning of June, I started the NY Islanders offseason with a piece on the Isles new focus: cap management. Since then, all hell has broken loose as Newsday reported that Kyle Okposo might be made available. I reported that Kyle Okposo is looking for a $7million+ payday when he becomes a UFA after next season. This seems ... Read More »
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