Le temps de Mike Milbury en tant que directeur général des Islanders de New York est connu comme l’une des époques les plus sombres de l’histoire de la LNH. En échangeant de futures stars comme Zdeno Chara, Roberto Luongo et Jason Spezza pour rédiger Rick DiPietro en premier, ses décisions ont laissé les insulaires en ruines. Aujourd’hui, nous examinerons comment «Mad Mike» a détruit une dynastie et a transformé une fière franchise en rive. Devenez membre de la chaîne: https://www.youtube.com/channel/uc3unqbuptankzpxrnbf3dyw/join Contact & Partnerships: contactSyNork@gmail.com
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Don't worry, Stano will fix this all
I really wish they kept him hired. For unlimited failure. 🤣🤣🤣
How was he not sacked!?
not first =(
don baloney destroyed a dynasty. milbury was too impatient and too hit or miss with trades. he did compliment the yashin deal with the peca deal and acquired kenny jonsson and berard, and ownership forced the palffy deal. milbury collected firsts like candy as isles had 9 first round picks between '97-'00. isles had the top system in nhl late '90's. both something louzer gm could never do
It is hard to believe that Milbury wasn't responsible for hanging the albatross of the DiPietro contract on the Islanders. It is the exact kind of move he'd make.
Oh the many disaster deals of Mike Milbury is unfamously legendary…..on goalies he was a wrecking machine in bad deals…..
In 1996/1997 traded tough defender Darius Kasparaitis and Andreas Johansson to the Penguins for Bryan Smolinski = Kasparaitis had many more years of sucsess and Smolinski under-performed with never passing 60 pts/season.
In 1997/1998 traded defender Bryan McCabe and Todd Bertuzzi + a 3rd-round draft pick to Canucks for Trevor Linden = Gave away there future for a short-term solution that never paid-out.
In 1998/1999 traded Bryan Berard & NYI’s 6th round choice in 1999 Entry Draft to Toronto for falling Felix Potvin and TOR’s 6th round choice in 1999 Entry Draft = Calder Trophy winner Bryan Berard, a fast, puck rushing defenceman with great hands. Berard was coming off a rookie of the year campaign that was followed by an equally as good if not better sophomore season….."Nah ship him away".
In 1999 traded Swedish 1# goalie Tommy Salo to Oilers for F Mats Lindgren & 8th Round Selection in 2000 (Radek Martinek) = Salo helped a weaker Oilers to the play-offs three consecutive years, and became an All-Star player in the process….
In 1999/2000 traded elite player & fan favourite Zigmund Palffy + Bryan Smolinski, Marc Cousineau and 1999 4th round pick to Kings for Olli Jokinen, Mathieu Biron, Josh Green and
1999 1st Round Pick (That became a 8th overall selection that burned possible picks incl. Henrik Zetterberg, Martin Havlat, Radim Vrbata, Nick Boynton and Ryan Miller).
In 2000 NHL Draft, drafted goalie Rick DiPietro with there #1 Overall pick = Despited having star-potential Roberto "freakin" Loungo and passed up top players;
Dany Heatley, Marian Gaborik & Scott Hartnell (not needing to mention Henrik Lundqvist or Ilya Bryzgalov as they had Luongo).
In 2000/2001 traded top goalie prospect Roberto Luongo and Olli Jokinen to the Panthers for Oleg Kvasha and Mark Parrish = Sent two great players for nothing in return.
And Luongo made no time waste in conquering the NHL.
In 2001/2002 traded big defender Zdeno Chara, Bill Muckalt + the 2nd overall pick in the 2001 Draft (Jason Spezza) to Senators for diva Alexei Yashin……
Then signed diva forward Alexei Yashin to a freakin 10 Year, $87.5M contract + becoming instant captain = $9 million a year and only played 5 of those 10 in the NHL….
In 2002/2003 traded solid goalie Chris Osgood + 3rd Round Selection to St. Louis Blues for Justin Papineau and 2nd Round Selection in 2003 Draft = Osgoud had 5 top seasons more in NHL.
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great video , leaf fans need to see this , because they seem to think draft picks arent worth anything
Milbury's broadcasting abilities over the years have been just as bad as his GM abilities were.
Failure follows him 🤡
Dang this were some horrible moves for the Isles during the Milbury Era
May Mike burn on the same stake Joan of Arc was burnt on
I think also Spano forced Mike Milbury to step down as coach during his ownership, and Spano calls it “a firing”.
My question is what if Spano had the money or balls to go all the way, and fire Spano, and replace him with any other GM? Presumably with a former Islander like Denis Potvin or Pat LaFontaine? (whom I don’t think are much better in their own right, but they wouldn’t of traded the Isles future)
Roberto Luongo had many deep playoff runs? Nope. Not enough emphasis on bad owners who told Milbury spend one month and unload the next, that's why Dumont was moved final day he had to be signed. 46 point improvement in 2002 playoffs 2002,03,04. Fan support walked by 1989 long before Milbury who coached team to finals, semifinals. Has to be judged from Wang-Kumar not prior owners. Czerkawski, Hunter, Blake others were good moved, he credited staff.
Milbury beat out Sather three straight years with 1/2 the payroll of Knicks hockey, where's Sather's video?