Lou Lamoriello likes his team exactly the way it is. So much so that the Islanders president and general manager stood pat as the NHL trade deadline passed on Monday afternoon.
“We weren’t going to get into a situation where we sacrificed what our plan is because we feel very good about this hockey team,” Lamoriello said minutes after the 3 p.m. deadline.
“You have to be extremely careful at this time because whenever you add somebody, it takes away from somebody else and somebody moves into a different spot,” Lamoriello added. “Whatever we potentially could have done would not have been the best thing.