The New York Islanders have generally been seen as the cheap team in the NHL. They rarely paid for players and they certainly never paid to bring in quality coaches. That was until Scott Malkin and John Ledecky bought the team.
The Ottawa Senators have happily taken the torch from the Islanders as the cheapskates in the NHL. To be fair, they’ve been one for years. But you’d think after the Daniel Alfredsson debacle some years ago they’d learn their lesson. Pay your star/franchise players.
And then a year away from unrestricted free agency, they low-balled Erik Karlsson.