Finally, a drainage season ends, miserable and sometimes dysfunctional for the islanders, and a sausage of 35-35-12 record: the franchise in seven seasons with Lou Lamoriello as the general manager-Manda responds.
On the cleaning of the locker on Saturday, when journalists will listen to the players for the last time before going home during the summer, the club’s address will begin to clarify for the coming months.
The General Manager Lou Lamoriello and Chief coach Patrick Roy are also expected to have availability at some point, if not Saturday with the players, then next week.
Here are five of the most important questions for islanders who go to the day of rupture:
Lou Lamoriello and Patrick Roy will remain in charge?
The first and biggest question is one for the property.
Lamoriello has been in charge of hockey operations since 2018; Roy is the third chief coach of the team under his guardianship.
The Fan Base has become suitable with the general manager and the very low consecutive list this year, with lost islands the playoffs for the second time from Lamoriello Tok.
As for Roy, saying the chief coach after a year, the team suffered so many injuries would be hard.
Even so, there is a question about whether he is the right person in the future, especially given the way in which the islanders ended the season, the way in which their special teams (in participation in the power game) served through the yearning and Public Distor of Roy.
They thought that Roy and Lamoriello have presented a united front in public, there have been speculation through the league throughout the season that the two do not get along privately, adding another element to the mixture.
How advanced are Matzal and Semion Varlamov in his rehabilitation processes?
Barzal underwent surgery in what is believed to be a broken left kneecap in February; The nature of the injury at the bottom of Varlamov’s body is unknown, but the last time he played one day after Thanksgiving and suffered a setback in January.
First, it has no answer if both will be ready for the next season, and in the case of Varlamov, especially, it seems that there is the possibility that it is not.
That would have a great impact on the low season of the islanders, since they would need to find a less backup if Varlamov is an interrogation sign.
For Barzal, it is not clear if a kneecap injury could affect his skating, the biggest weapon of his game.
If the islanders cannot trust that he will be the same, he adds another problem to this low season.
Where is the mentality of Anthony Duclair?
In other words: Anthony Duclair will end the last three years of his contract with the islanders?
And the islanders because Ducrair will end the last three years of their contract with them?
Duclair spent the last eight games of the season in personal absence after Roy called his work “God Awful” and questioned his effort after a defeat against Tampa on April 1.
It was a first miserable year in Long Island for Duclair, who suffered an injury in the five -game groin, hastened before Christmas and never looked like himself.
Given the nature of his absence, it is not only clear that he will talk to journalists on the day of the breakup, since it is unknown if he is still in Long Island.
If so, there is much to answer.
Where are things with Noah Dobson?
If there is a negotiation this summer that seems simple but that could be crazy, it is Dobson.
Defense production fell into 31 points between 2023-24 and 2024-25, but the increase in the meaans salary cover that it could ask for the north or $ 8 million annually.
Dobson also changed his agent in February and is eligible for arbitration.
It is a restricted free agent, but with the lid limit this summer, the environment could be conducive to sacrifice leaves.
And, although Lamoriello minimized this when asked last summer, it is interesting that the islanders did not press to make an extension before the season when it was compared to the way they handled long -term offers for Barsal and Ilya Sorokin.
Smart Money says that everyone recognizes that Dobson is a defense of $ 8-8.5 million, obtains an extension of medium to lung term and that there is no drama.
But that is not a cold stone guarantee.
Does Pierre Engvall or Scott Mayfield will be low season low?
Since the NHL purchase window does not open for another two months, it may be technically incorrect to have this as a breakdown question.
Even so, after Lamoriello promised to change the summer at his press conference of the deadline after trade, possible purchases for Engvall and Mayfield will help determine the scope of that change.
Engvall ended the year, but could not make the team outside the training field and spent much of the season in Roy’s dog’s booth, hesitating between a healthy scratch and the lower six.
Mayfield, after returning from an injury at the end of February, was also a frequent healthy scratch, with Tony Deangelo assuming a daily role.
Both have five years left in their agreements, Mayfield with an annual coup of $ 3.5 million, Engvall with $ 3 million.
If purchased, those limit blows would be reduced to $ 1.66 million for Mayfield up to 2035 and $ 1 million for Engvall, also until 2035.
With the lid scheduled to increase greatly during the next three seasons, that looks possible for the islanders.
