The setting was idyllic. Lou Lamoriello wasn’t golfing that day, and once the players shuffled off on their golf carts to their respective first holes, he gathered with the local media just outside of the clubhouse to chat about the upcoming season, the uneventful offseason, the future of Mathew Barzal, and the surprising replacement of Barry Trotz with first-year head …
Once the shock of the trade wore off — not shock that Bo Horvat was traded, of course, but rather where he was dealt — the big unanswered question was whether an extension would soon follow. And therein lies the interesting gamble Islanders general manager Lou Lamoriello made Monday in the first blockbuster of trade season, because acquiring Horvat from …
Max Pacioretty was meant to be the Hurricanes’ big trade-deadline forward pickup this season. He was meant to be an own-rental of sorts, as a pending unrestricted free agent who could pour in goals for one of the NHL’s top Cup contenders when he eventually returned from a torn Achilles tendon after missing the first part of the season. “That …
