It was a busy trade deadline for the New York Islanders, something that doesn't happen all too often in their team's recent history. Lou Lamoriello acquired arguably the best forward available in JG Pageau for three draft picks.
Draft picks are hard to lose sleep over when the Islanders have been hoarding picks and prospects almost every year minus the attaching of a first-round pick in the Expansion Draft in 2017.
Besides acquiring a really good center, we learned something about the Isles yesterday. Players want to come here. In Pageau's conference call he was quoted saying how the Islanders' ability to compete is so exciting.