Islanders goaltender Thomas Greiss looks on during overtime against the Hurricanes in an NHL game at Nassau Coliseum on March 7. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
Thomas Greiss was always well aware this would be the likely outcome.
The goalie’s five-season tenure on Long Island ended on Saturday — the second day of NHL free agency and the second straight quiet day for the Islanders — when he agreed to a two-year, $7.2 million deal with the Detroit Red Wings.
The 34-year-old German completed a three-year, $10 million deal and the Islanders have Semyon Varlamov, entering the second season of a four-year, $20 million deal, and highly-touted incoming Russian prospect Ilya Sorokin, on a one-year, $2 million deal, signed for next season.