[TheScorpion]

In a bizarre press release, the office of the long-serving Islanders GM referred to all of his counterparts as "chumps" and "raw pumpkin eaters" who "can't hope to beat me in trades."

He also claimed the Islanders' rebuild would eventually be "the best rebuild in the history of sports" leading to a period of "unprecedented and incredible success."

He finally openly challenged the Lightning GM to try and beat him in a James Neal trade. "It is impossible to threaten my superior intellect and tremendous success," he claimed.

In unrelated news, the Islanders' GM portal was recently accessed by a new IP address located at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The Islanders GM claims to have no knowledge of this new access or this statement and is pledging to address this incident internally.