Holding onto picks number 11 and 12 overall, the New York Islanders were almost certainly looking around to see if they could move one or two of those picks for immediate help.
In fact, according to Eric Engels of Sportsnet, the Isles nearly acquired Max Pacioretty from the Montreal Canadiens as a part of a blockbuster, three-team trade.
The trade would’ve sent either pick 11 or 12 to Montreal in exchange for Pacioretty and then the Canadiens would flip that pick to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for Ryan O’Reilly.
As per the story, Lou Lamoriello and the Islanders backed out of the trade when seeing that Oliver Wahlstrom and Noah Dobson somehow fell out of the top-10 and wisely took them both with back-to-back picks.