Islanders make a major defensive acquisition
At the beginning of the season, the New York Islanders were a team of Patrick Kane and... that's it. We had two firsts to acquire in time for the 2020 draft as well as a second-rounder and we felt helpless about our ability to come up with those draft picks. We certainly were not about to trade another conditional pick.
So we tinkered with our asset base. We signed just about every free agent under the sun and added some legit prospects, to the point where we were able to trade them for real NHLers and picks. We traded rentals for players with term that we knew we'd be able to trade again in the future to try and recoup assets.
Today, the New York Islanders are in a position where we have substantial assets. We have Cam Atkinson, a legitimate star NHLer. Ryan Getzlaf is aging but still a #1 centre. Derek Stepan and Josh Bailey are top-six forwards. Charlie Coyle is still growing into a huge piece for the Boston Bruins. We have all these players under our control and can easily trade them after the season or sooner if we need to. We have full confidence in our ability to satisfy each and every one of our conditions.
So much so, that today, we decided to trade a 2021 conditional pick for the first time. This will be our one and only conditional 2021 pick traded. We have no intention of piling up conditions in the future like we have in years past (cough 2017-18, how did we ever survive that).
We figured we'd save the conditional pick for the right opportunity, the perfect player, somebody who we could trade again and recoup that asset if things failed to improve.
So today, we moved to acquire the league's top defenseman.
To Washington:
Top-26 pick in 2021
Braydon Coburn
Kyle Okposo
Zack Smith
Brendan Smith
To New York:
Mark Giordano
Your New York Islanders:
Josh Bailey - Ryan Getzlaf - Tyler Ennis
Charlie Coyle - Derek Stepan - Cam Atkinson
Artem Anisimov - Tyler Bozak - Michael Frolik
Cedric Paquette - Joe Thornton - Derick Brassard
Mark Giordano - Jason Demers
Alex Goligoski - Jordie Benn
Andrej Sekera - Nick Jensen
Martin Jones
Pavel Francouz
Thanks very much to Ashasx for the negotiation
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Last edited by TheScorpion; 01-10-2020 at 01:37 PM.
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