Who’s left?
Miro Satan? Phil Kessel? Mike Peca? Kyle Calder? Robert Lang? Viktor Kozlov?
With the better players being picked up already, the Islanders don’t seem willing to take a chance on any of these players. Kessel would be a great addition, but he wants too much money and hasn’t proven himself in this league yet. If he had say, two 30-goal seasons under his belt, he’d be signed by a team right now.
Kozlov would just be a hired gun, the same thing goes for Lang. Neither one would want to be part of a rebuilding plan. Satan and Peca are in the last legs of their careers and Calder has lost the potential he once had. Maybe the Isles are better with a straight rebuild.
What do you guys think?
Posted under Offseason 2009
This post was written by Patrick Hickey, Jr. on September 5, 2009
I am a big fan of the straight rebuild. We saw what happened when we got screwed by Ryan Smyth. Signing a hired gun would be against what Snow has been striving for recently. The one thing he lost out on was Guerin, a true leader in the locker room and on the ice.