Lou and Isles management over thought this situation and thought they were playing 5D chess instead they ended up playing themselves and now they have 2 aging goalies who are both getting out performed by a younger and better goalie playing for a much worse team that they let walk away for free and now they’re running the risk of having exactly 0 top goaltending prospects. Then it was Vary and Sorokin are friends so signing Varly would helps persuade Sorokin to jump over, and now we’re hearing signing Varly long term has jeopardized Sorokin ever playing for the Islanders. First it was he didn’t want to sign Lehner to long term to jeopardize Sorokin coming over then he signed Varly long term. Combine the fact that Lehner wanted to stay in New York, was even open to just signing a 1 year deal with the team, but Lou still moved on from him to sign the inferior goalie and his reasoning has yet to make any sense. The fact of the matter is that Lehner is younger, better, and doesn’t have the injury history that Varlamov has. But that Babcock story really stuck out to me as a look behind the curtain at Leo and Martin, and a glimpse at what Lou knew about them off-ice that make any questions about their values go away.Ĭontinuously leaving sassy comments like this doesn’t help your case. Not all contract value is on the stat sheet, and us fans never really know who the guys holding the locker room together are. Dubas (like our sub sometimes lol) saw a couple of slower, overpaid vets on the wrong side of 29 with not-great stats and let them go with no resistance. The detail got kinda lost in the vortex of Leafs news but it really stuck out to me that those were the two guys Lou brought with him to the Island from Toronto when he had to rebuild a locker room in the aftermath of JT leaving. Martin for instance has been absolutely huge for us, bringing the Cizikas line back to form, but they think he was a huge mistake, etc.įWIW according to Toronto media a few weeks ago when that story broke about Babcock screwing with Marners head making him rank his own teammates, Leo and Martin were the two guys that both tackled Babcock about it saying he was way out of line and brought it to Lou's attention. and there's no way for us to say what does for the young kids and what he brings to the locker room. I'll wait till we start missing the playoffs to consider critiquing Lou, personally. Martin for instance has been absolutely huge for us, bringing the Cizikas line back to form, but they think he was a huge mistake, etc. I think these people have a combination of "goldfish memory", as well as just not really understanding hockey outside of paper stats. When's the last time in team history that even happened. He also locked all our core FA (Lee, Nelson, Eberle) for fair to great deals. Komarov is one I didn't really agree with but, I don't think Lou expected us to be competitive so soon or Komarov's contract would be different, and there's no way for us to say what he does for the young kids and what he brings to the locker room. The deals he's been able to make have all worked out so far (Filpula, Martin, Kuhnackle, Lehner, Varlamov, Brassard). The guy offered Panarin $12.5 mil like what else do you want from him haha. And guess what, Beauvy is having a fantastic season this year and will only get better. Lou also went for Stone too last year but the price was too much (they wanted Beauvillier and more). He was the longest-tenured Denver athlete and won the Stanley Cup in 2022.Ĭlick here for all 32 NHL Subreddits Division r/hockey stands with BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ NHLġ) - And just like that, Oscar Klefbom becomes the first Edmonton Oiler to play his full career with the club.ģ) - Thank you Joel Edmundson! Good luck in Washington!Ĥ) - Erik Johnson signs with Buffalo for one-year, $3.25 million. Read the full posting rules here and what we ban for which includes code of conduct guidelines.Memes, advice animals, and low-content posts will be removed on sight (click for examples).Racist, ethnic, sexist or homophobic slurs/remarks of any kind will lead to a ban.
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