Islanders acquire Pavelski from Sabres
NYI have been getting badly outplayed lately. We're being outshot every night and we can't score enough goals.
So... we pulled off a deal with the Buffalo Sabres on Monday. We honed in on Joe Pavelski as an ideal target for our team and we decided we were willing to sacrifice a bit of the future to try and get into the playoffs and potentially make some noise.
We traded Nick Schmaltz and Pavel Francouz to the Sabres to acquire Pavelski. We've cleared a tiny bit of cap for this season and next by making the deal and we hope it improves our team for this year.
Pavelski will slot in as our No. 1 centre going forward, bumping Horvat down to the second line.
(Funny enough, this is exactly the kind of move I want the NHL Flames to make at the trade deadline — go get Pavelski!)
Rakell (71) – Pavelski (73) – Marchessault (73)
Lee (71) – Horvat (73) – Eberle (71)
Foligno (69) – Backlund (71) – Hornqvist (70)
Skinner (68) – Larsson (67) – Hathaway (68)
Ekman-Larsson (73) – Weegar (73)
Pelech (71) – Krug (70)
MacDonald (68) – Dillon (71)
Talbot (84)
Holtby (81)
Thanks to SportsJunky for the deal.
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