When your franchise player walks out the door on July 1, there’s no salvaging it. Lou Lamoriello is still a proven General Manager, and I fully expect him to fix the New York Islanders. If you thought the Isles would be a championship level team on the same day Tavares left, well I’m sorry your expectations are just ridiculously unfair.
There’s still more work to be done, a lot of work, in fact, but let’s not completely dismiss the Islanders two notable free agent signings yet.
One of the Islanders biggest flaws from 2017-2018 was their penalty kill.