New York Islanders
Atlantic Division | Eastern Conference
Overview
The Islanders currently have 2 players including 1 forwards, 0 defensemen, and 1 goalie(s) counting against their salary cap. Of those players not all are on the roster: 1 is a bought-out player.
The team's current total salary cap hit stands at $6,700,000. That is $43,600,000 below the $50,300,000 cap ceiling, and $27,600,000 below the $34,300,000 cap floor. The highest cap hit on the team is $4,500,000, while the lowest is $2,200,000.
With a combined payroll of $6,700,000, the average salary of the team is $3,350,000. The highest salary on the team is $4,500,000, with the lowest being $2,200,000.
The team has 1 player signed on through to 2010-2011, on July 1st, 2010.
Rumors
- Pens: Flat Start to Playoff Push
- The Pittsburg Penguins are a team that will take any win they can get. The New Your Islanders gave them quite the game.
- Islanders Week In Review
- I’ll be updating this column on a weekly basis, tracking the season of the New York Islanders. Games: 10/27/08- Islanders 2, New York Rangers 4 10/30/08- Islanders 3, Philadelphia Flyers 4 11/01/08- Islanders 4, Montreal Canadiens 5 New and Notes: - The Islanders suffered one of the worst meltdowns in franchise history against the Canadiens, allowing Montreal to score four goals [...]
- Islanders Week In Review
- I’ll be updating this column weekly, tracking the season of the New York Islanders. Games: 10/23/08- Islanders 3, Dallas Stars 5 10/25/08- Islanders 3, Carolina Hurricanes 4 News and Notes: - The Islanders set a club record for shots on goal in a game (60) against Carolina. - Starting goalie Rick Dipietro apparently injured himself again during the Carolina game. His [...]
- Could There be a Second Hockeytown?
- An article posted on TSN this morning is beginning to stir up a lot of discussion about the NHL in Toronto. The article suggests that National Hockey League officials think the Toronto hockey market is big and strong enough to have a second team. An anonymous governor of the NHL said "Why shouldn't we put another team in the biggest and best market in the world?" Other executives around the NHL seemed to have no idea about this. Jim Rutherford of the Carolina Hurricanes said he had not heard anything like this at the meetings he had been at.
- Islanders Week In Review
- I'll be updating this column weekly, tracking the season of the New York Islanders. The big story thus far has been the inactivity of franchise goalie Rick Dipietro. He finally received his first start of the year against Florida on Saturday night and let in a goal early on. However, he settled down afterwards and played reasonably well, keeping the Islanders in the game.
Transactions
- New Jersey Devils At The Deadline
- New Jersey Devils (39-19-3) — 1st, Atlantic…3rd Conf. What got them there? Well honestly a resilient offense and timely goaltending from someone not named Martin Brodeur for most of the season is what got the Devils to this point. When Brodeur went down on November 1st…did anyone expect them to be in this position? No! Scott [...]
- Making Moves: Pens Deal Ryan Whitney
- The Pens give up on Ryan Whitney and look to make a playoff push.
- Tom Renney out, John Tortorella in
- And so the ongoing rumour came true, The Rangers changed their coach. Tortorella is a fiery coach, maybe that’s what the Rangers need, it’s true most of them are underperforming, but we can’t get too picky on a team that has lacked quality finishers all year long. On the other hand Renney, is NOT a bad coach, [...]
- Schneider Traded To Montreal
- The Montreal Canadiens have traded for Mathieu Schneider.
- Devils Trade Brookbank to Ducks
- The Devils traded defenseman Sheldon Brookbank to the Anaheim Ducks for the rights to center David McIntyre. The trade of Brookbkank opens up a spot for the Devils to add another player to their roster before the trade deadline.