Comments on: Garth Snow??

By: Steve Cherches

Steve Cherches — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:38:53 +0000

Garth Snow can take a while to pull his feet out of his mouth after his “big” signing of Kyle Okposo in midseason.

Not only is he overestimating Okposo’s talents and readiness to play in the NHL, until Snow wins ANYTHING he cannot hold Don Lucia’s jockstrap…His recent comments regarding Minnesota hockey program are laughable…

Kiss off Snowman – will see the Wild crush ya when the league finally allows your one visit …

By: Jimmy Ray Payne

Jimmy Ray Payne — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:07:03 +0000

Is Ron Tugnutt the Assistant GM?

By: David Johnson

David Johnson — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:00:52 +0000

In business, every good executive has a succession plan in place should he ever decide to retire or leave the organization. We have to give Garth Snow some credit for doing that his first action as GM was signing back-up goalie Wade Dubeilwicz.

Seriously though, the Islanders are a bit hamstrung but a couple of things. The first is Yashin’s rediculous contract. He’s getting paid $7 million but is playing more like a $3 million player. The second is they have a horrible building to play in which severely limits attendance which means they are unlikely to spend to the cap. They do get good TV revenue so they aren’t in as dire straits as the Penguins but they have made some bad management decisions.

Ok, so I guess that is a third thing that holds them back. They have been managed for the past decade(?) by probably the worst general manager in hockey history. Mike Milbury. He’s the guy who traded Spezza and Chara for Yashin and gave Yashin the huge contract. He’s the guy who traded Olli Jokinen and Roberto Luongo for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha just so he could draft Rick DiPietro over guys like Dany Heatley and Marian Gaborik. He’s the guy who traded Todd Bertuzzi, Bryan McCabe and a 3rd round pick to Vancouver for Trevor Linden.

Think about how good that team could have been with Spezza, Chara, Luongo, Jokinen, and Heatley.

So while we all laugh at the Garth Snow signing, the good news is that it probably can’t be worst than the past 10 years.

By: biff

biff — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:40:23 +0000

Does anyone know the direction Snow is going these days. With the exception of a couple of minor moves in the front office, nothing is happening with Dipetro and nothing seems to be happening with respect to exploiting New Jersey’s cap problems!

Does anyone know if the Islanders have imposed their own cap?

By: CrazyCanuck

CrazyCanuck — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:27:23 +0000

how low can the NYI go? The team is a joke–they need to get a new owners. I truly feal sorry for NYI fans.

By: biff

biff — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:51:25 +0000

I’d like to see the islanders pick up Luckowich to bring him back to the Island. He was heart and soul Islanders and would probably be bought for a third round draft pick like we got for him in a trade with NJ this past Spring.

I’m not sure what spending cap Wang has imposed but it would be nice to pick up Gionta from NJ or try to pry Rafe Torres from Edmonton to bring him back home.

By: biff

biff — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:33:41 +0000

The quick fallout between Neil and “Wanger” is one of these twos’ fault.

It seems like Neil was so anxious to get a job he did not listen to what Wanger’s plan was.

Either way, there is alot of bad press on this one.

Let’s see how Garth works out. He must be smart on the inside (from comments about him as a person) , and let’s hope this is true because if you watch his interviews (msg network), he’s not looking too sharp in front of the cameras

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:10:24 +0000

They’re probably sitting him down right now:

“Okay now Garth, this is what we call a Salary Cap. It’ll be 44 in the upcoming system . . . ”

GMing 101.

By: The Ice Block

The Ice Block — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:10:42 +0000

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