With the trade deadline rapidly approaching you would assume news would break about a trade the New York Islanders have made. Instead, we got word of a potential contract extension coming to a UFA.
No, it isn’t John Tavares but it’s an important part of this team. According to Bob McKenzie, the Islanders are close to a multi-year extension for Josh Bailey. The prediction is around $5 million a year for five or six years.
If you told me before the year the Islanders would extend Bailey before Tavares and fans would be generally happy about it I wouldn’t have believed you.