Cries of "CRISIS" and "You watch I told you so!" are a rite of summer passage among many New York Islanders fans. If there are free agents out there? They must be bought. Prospects who can(?) be flipped for "proven veterans" already commanding more cap space? Make the trade.
Et cetera.
But this is not the only way to look at the team, nor roster construction.
For a case in point, see a recent column by Jeff Capellini, CBS New York columnist and Passionate Twitter Voice, about why the lack of activity by Islanders general manager Garth Snow this summer is the potential harbinger of bad things to come for the club.