UNIONDALE, NEW YORK - MARCH 18: Josh Bailey #12 of the New York Islanders skates against the Philadelphia Flyers at the Nassau Coliseum on March 18, 2021 in Uniondale, New York. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
In the offseason, there was a fear that Josh Bailey’s days as a member of the New York Islanders were numbered. Both Jordan Eberle and Bailey were exposed in the expansion draft and it was up in the air who Seattle was going to take for a while.
It ended up being Eberle, as we know now, but his future was uncertain.