The New York Islanders are down 3-0 in the first round in what has been a one-sided series against the Carolina Hurricanes. They’ve been outplayed and it’s clear there is a gap between them and their opponent.
A team run by Lou Lamoriello that keeps the core intact every season doesn’t appear to have new faces. That’s not the case with the New York Islanders who have plenty of new skaters on the roster who helped them secure a playoff spot and a matchup against the Carolina Hurricanes.
The New York Islanders’ roller coaster of a season had plenty of highs and more than enough lows. They had plenty of games go to overtime, 26 to be exact, and multiple games where they had comfortable leads in the third period, only to fall apart and end up on the losing end.
Just when the New York Islanders looked done this season, they started winning. A six-game winning streak has them boasting a 37-27-15 record which is the third-best in the Metropolitan Division and they are only a few points away from securing a spot in the playoffs.
It has been a weird season for the New York Islanders. First, it appeared the Islanders were out of the playoffs. Then they were in the playoffs, back out, and now it seems the Islanders are returning to the playoffs again.
The 2023-24 New York Islanders are a far cry from the team that made the Eastern Conference Final and semi-finals in the 2020 and 2021 seasons, and there are many reasons for that.
The NHL’s general managers (GMs) meet multiple times annually to discuss the state of the game. These meetings are typically started by a senior group including managers such as Doug Armstrong, Lou Lamoriello, and others, and are then brought to the rest of the GMs to discuss what further action should be taken.
The New York Islanders have been playing their best hockey of the season lately and are closing in on a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. They entered the trade deadline as a team ready to add at least one more depth player to signal that they are ready to compete and make a push for the Stanley Cup.
Rather than bolstering his roster and making an addition to help ensure the New York Islanders make the playoffs, team president/general manager Lou Lamoriello opted to hold onto his chips by standing pat at the NHL’s trade deadline.
The New York Islanders did nothing at the trade deadline -- except convince general manager Lou Lamoriello that one of the oldest teams in the league deserved to stay together for one more playoff run.
Rarely, if ever, do you hear a peep, nor a whisper, much less a rumor out of the front office of the New York Islanders. But this NHL trade deadline season was even quieter than usual, and it made all the more sense when the clock struck 3 p.m.
The trades are coming in hot as many of the notable players have already been moved ahead of the Friday afternoon deadline. Noah Hanifin moved from the
With the trade deadline just a few days away, some teams are still trying to decide what their plan should be at the deadline. The New York Islanders are not one of those teams.
A mere three days away from Friday’s trade deadline at 3 p.m. ET, we’ve got you covered at Daily Faceoff with at least one trade-focused story every day until Deadline Day.
The three-game winning streak changes a lot for how the New York Islanders will approach the trade deadline. A week back, they looked like a team that needed to sell and start trading a few players away with the hope of retooling the roster.
Jarmo Kekalainen’s decade-plus-long tenure as the Columbus Blue Jackets general manager came to an end when the team parted ways with him last week. This comes in the middle of a season to forget for a Blue Jackets team that has a 16-26-10 record and is in last place in the Metropolitan Division.
It’s rather nearly impossible to get inside the mind of New York Islanders president and general manager Lou Lamoriello and figure out his next move. With the trade deadline only a month away, there will be plenty of speculation coming from all directions over what moves Lamoriello will make.
The New York Islanders are approaching a decision point. As the NHL’s trade deadline draws closer, team president and general manager Lou Lamoriello must determine what moves he will or won’t make and what direction he wants to take the team in the immediate future.
New York Islander president and general manager Lou Lamoriello provided some clarity on the team’s current status following a day full of moves. Firstly, Adam Pelech is expected to miss at least a few weeks while on long-term injured reserve with an upper-body injury he sustained in the Islanders game last night in Ottawa.
One player who will not be at the New York Islanders training camp this September is veteran forward Zach Parise. In April, Parise was adamant about returning to the Islanders for his 19th season in the NHL but appeared to become more uncertain once the 2022-23 season reached its conclusion.
For the last eight years, ranking the confidence levels of each fanbase in their front office has been a staple of The Athletic’s NHL coverage.
Despite the lack of playoff success the last couple of seasons, that hasn’t stopped Lamoriello from acting like a win-now GM.
After trading for center Bo Horvat late last week the New York Islanders acted quickly to sign him to a brand new eight-year contract extension on Sunday. The man that handed out that contract, general manager Lou Lamoriello, already seems to hate it.
The usually stingy Islanders have allowed at least four goals in 13 of their last 25, and they are still scoring at a rate that puts them among the league’s bottom third.
In sum, Islanders GM Lou Lamoriello, who famously has held his cards close, noted that this decision was his alone.
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