Islanders expected value added from 2020 draft at bottom of league

Thanks to a big trade at the 2020 trade deadline, the New York Islanders are expected to leave the 2020 draft with very little value added to their franchise.

The cost of adding Jean-Gabriel Pageau to the New York Islanders lineup at the 2020 NHL trade deadline was a 2020 first-round pick, a 2020 second-round pick, and a 2022 third-round pick.

That first-rounder was top-three protected incase the Islanders fell out of the playoffs and somehow moved up into the top three at the draft thanks to the lottery. That 2022 third-round pick would only go to the Senators if the Islanders won the cup in 2020.

So because of the Pageau trade, the Islanders won't make a pick at the 2020 draft until the…