Lou hasn't won anything in more than a decade. The Islanders prospect pool has been correctly renamed a puddle not a pool. He has tripled (quadrupled?) down on a core that isn't exactly Trottier, Bossy, Potvin etc.. Some want to give him credit for bringing back the core that finished 15th last year. I guess that's because it's still a young core.....oops just being sarcastic. He did steal Sorokin in a tremendous deal for the Isles. That said, Lou has done nothing to validate the "In Lou we trust" mindset of Ledecky and Malkin. As long as the owners continue to let "System first. System always" Lou do whatever he wants the team will not win the Cup. Ledecky and Malkin got us a new arena. That will never be forgotten. However, neither will the fact that they seem content to have a bubble team and not a real Cup contender be ignored. So, with apologies to Louis XV, after Lou the deluge. There is a bright light at the end of the Lou Tunnel and it's not a train. It's Lou's one and only Sonny Boy, who I'm sure, will continue Lou's Islanders tradition of no Cup under my watch.
It's exhausting. We will see how it goes, but I'm not sure what the basis is for saying they'll be one of the worst teams in the league. They have a pretty wide range of possible outcomes but it would take quite a colossal, and likely injury filled, failure for them to be that bad.
For it to go right, this is what has to happen: 1. Aho and Bolduc have to be solid defenders. 2. Barzal has to get 75-80 points and Horvat about the same. 3. The aging forwards have to have no fall off in production and remain healthy. 4. The young upcoming Wings, Sens and Sabres, all have to fail to take the next step. If all that happens and only if all that happens, the Isles make the play-offs and once again exit in the first round. Apparently, that would be a booming success for the GM and ownership.
Lou hasn't won anything in more than a decade. The Islanders prospect pool has been correctly renamed a puddle not a pool. He has tripled (quadrupled?) down on a core that isn't exactly Trottier, Bossy, Potvin etc.. Some want to give him credit for bringing back the core that finished 15th last year. I guess that's because it's still a young core.....oops just being sarcastic. He did steal Sorokin in a tremendous deal for the Isles. That said, Lou has done nothing to validate the "In Lou we trust" mindset of Ledecky and Malkin. As long as the owners continue to let "System first. System always" Lou do whatever he wants the team will not win the Cup. Ledecky and Malkin got us a new arena. That will never be forgotten. However, neither will the fact that they seem content to have a bubble team and not a real Cup contender be ignored. So, with apologies to Louis XV, after Lou the deluge. There is a bright light at the end of the Lou Tunnel and it's not a train. It's Lou's one and only Sonny Boy, who I'm sure, will continue Lou's Islanders tradition of no Cup under my watch.
It's exhausting. We will see how it goes, but I'm not sure what the basis is for saying they'll be one of the worst teams in the league. They have a pretty wide range of possible outcomes but it would take quite a colossal, and likely injury filled, failure for them to be that bad.
For it to go right, this is what has to happen: 1. Aho and Bolduc have to be solid defenders. 2. Barzal has to get 75-80 points and Horvat about the same. 3. The aging forwards have to have no fall off in production and remain healthy. 4. The young upcoming Wings, Sens and Sabres, all have to fail to take the next step. If all that happens and only if all that happens, the Isles make the play-offs and once again exit in the first round. Apparently, that would be a booming success for the GM and ownership.