Good trade, since you all know how coveted these Swiss/Spanish defensemen are.

weise was actually playing pretty good as of late.

No other choice I guess.

Bieska, Tanev, Alberts, Weber are all out. Doesn't this leave Corrado and Diaz now.

Torts and Weise didn't get along in New York...

Not surprised he's gone

I guess this means Sauve isn't going to get another look.

Now we can get Kane :troll:
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Keep in mind Diaz can be flipped on deadline day.

Probably more than what Weise would fetch.

Meh....Diaz is a UFA at the end of this season so the value isn't exactly high..

But Nashville did get a UFA Gaustad for a 1st round pick tho :troll:

weise was gritty? giroux has 4 less hits than him this year. i clearly remember him saying that he was gonna make sure he finished every hit in the phx game, only to not do anything. time for archibald.

I think Weise has always seen himself as having the potential to be a third line scoring guy, when everyone else sees him as a grinder. I didn't hate the guy, but certainly didn't love him. Someone like Archi is an adequate replacement, especially since he will actually bring that physical presence as he knows the role expected of him.

i guess the whole dutch gretzky thing really went to his head :lawl:

Our 2nd pp unit just took a huge hit.

We had a 2nd PP unit? After all this time... I thought we just have two 3rd stringer PP units.

:badpokerface:

LOL, what a dumb trade for the Islanders to acquire this twat. I don't know what his mindset was but I'm guessing Matt Moulson would have resigned if offered a new deal? So now at the end of the season they have no Moulson, No Vanek and they lost a 1st and a 2nd round pick in the upcoming draft. Yes they can move Vanek before the deadline and possibly get a 1st rounder back but dollars to doughnuts it will be to a playoff team which will mean it's a late round pick. Once they move him they'll have neither asset from deadline to the end of the season, they'll probably drop to a lottery pick (that now belongs to Buffalo) and they are still down a second round pick.

Leave it to the Islanders to make the money trades with or without Milbury.


Report: Vanek turns down 'substantial' offer from Islanders

He's not even playing that great this year, either!

Tavares has 64 points and Okposo has 58. You'd think that he'd be racking up more points when paired with 2 players on pace for career years.

minny gonna be stacked. dat youth
parise- pominville - vanek
zucker - granlund - nino
coyle

The 1st round pick is a 2014 or 2015 pick, Islanders choice.

Of course, with the Islanders being far from a lock for the playoffs and every team that misses the playoffs having a shot at #1 overall, if they defer the pick to 2015, they stand a chance of this trade extending into true Milbury territory if that pick ends up #1 overall, which would be Connor McDavid.

Dat insanely overpaid 1st line, absolutely no defense after Suter and aging, injury-prone goaltending :megusta:

I'd trade a 1st round pick for a guy like Gaustad if my team were a lock for the playoffs. He's essentially what Malhotra was before the eye injury, except bigger and tougher.

Maybe a bit off topic, but someone must have found these at the back of a warehouse... Check out all these old unopened hockey cards I saw at the Richmond ToysRUs!

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Bryan...ckey_cards.jpg

I'm sure he can be fetched for a 4-7th round draft pick that Weise probably won't do.. lol

RHD and puck-mover

good trade for our needs atm I guess

The value of Raphael Diaz: Why trading him was a mistake - Eyes On The Prize

:notbad:

Thought the prospect of playing with Tavares could change his mind. Apparently not. Was really hoping for the NYI to reemerge from the doghouse one day. Guess this trade sets them a few years back again.