If you build it.. they will come
June 20th - a new regime.
Draft was certainly interesting as an Islander fan. Going into the Draft I was kind of just curious more then anything who the islanders were going to take. The Islanders already have a bunch of young defenseman and I know the top 10 in this draft would be stacked with big "Chris Pronger" type defenseman. The thing that everyone forgets is Pronger sucked for 4 or 5 years as a Hartford whaler. He did not become a force for a long time. The Islanders also have a knack for drafting defenseman in late rounds that work out (Zdeno Chara- 6th round).
So that left me hoping the Russian kid would be there at 5 Fetisov. Now He was not projected to go early till about a week ago. Then he was talked about as "another great Russian player??!!" So at 5 when he was available I thought they would take him.. they did not. They traded down and picked up a few picks. Then at 7 they traded down again and gained some more picks.
Then at 9 they took Josh Bailey. He is a big talented Center that hits hard.. Character kid who is not afraid to drop the gloves, but is not a brawler. Isles said if they had the second pick this is the kid they would have taken so moving down made sense b/c he would still be available..etc. Then b/c of all the moving down and trades during year Isles land 13 picks in a very deep draft. So it comes down to this... if Fetisov does not turn out to be Ovechkin then I gotta be very happy... here is a break down of who the Islanders got: http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=366699
Steal-: if Petrov comes over from Russia he would have been a steal at pick number 73... Big skilled Russian.. most of the other kids will be in the Frozen 4 for a while.
In all most of these kids are Teddy Nolan type players and you would hope a few of them turn out to be pretty good. I am very interested in Bailey, Trivino, Petrov (big Russian), Toews and Ness. These were all highly touted going into draft. Rest will be a wait and see type players.
Anway I thought Snow and Co. did a pretty good job but still would have rather had a few more picks via trading our free agents, but hopefully we end up with some stars. Goodness knows we need them.... Free agency begins in one week. some how we need a goal scorer.
Draft was certainly interesting as an Islander fan. Going into the Draft I was kind of just curious more then anything who the islanders were going to take. The Islanders already have a bunch of young defenseman and I know the top 10 in this draft would be stacked with big "Chris Pronger" type defenseman. The thing that everyone forgets is Pronger sucked for 4 or 5 years as a Hartford whaler. He did not become a force for a long time. The Islanders also have a knack for drafting defenseman in late rounds that work out (Zdeno Chara- 6th round).
So that left me hoping the Russian kid would be there at 5 Fetisov. Now He was not projected to go early till about a week ago. Then he was talked about as "another great Russian player??!!" So at 5 when he was available I thought they would take him.. they did not. They traded down and picked up a few picks. Then at 7 they traded down again and gained some more picks.
Then at 9 they took Josh Bailey. He is a big talented Center that hits hard.. Character kid who is not afraid to drop the gloves, but is not a brawler. Isles said if they had the second pick this is the kid they would have taken so moving down made sense b/c he would still be available..etc. Then b/c of all the moving down and trades during year Isles land 13 picks in a very deep draft. So it comes down to this... if Fetisov does not turn out to be Ovechkin then I gotta be very happy... here is a break down of who the Islanders got: http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=366699
Steal-: if Petrov comes over from Russia he would have been a steal at pick number 73... Big skilled Russian.. most of the other kids will be in the Frozen 4 for a while.
In all most of these kids are Teddy Nolan type players and you would hope a few of them turn out to be pretty good. I am very interested in Bailey, Trivino, Petrov (big Russian), Toews and Ness. These were all highly touted going into draft. Rest will be a wait and see type players.
Anway I thought Snow and Co. did a pretty good job but still would have rather had a few more picks via trading our free agents, but hopefully we end up with some stars. Goodness knows we need them.... Free agency begins in one week. some how we need a goal scorer.
posted by New York Islander chatter at 12:24 PM
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