Normally, a trade made by the Florida Panthers wouldn’t have a major impact on the New York Islanders. However, today’s trade involving the Carolina Hurricanes and Florida Panthers has a major impact on the Islanders and their free agency plans.
The Panthers traded away goalie James Reimer for Scott Darling and a sixth-round pick. Then, the Panthers proceeded to buyout Scott Darling. Florida now has just over 25 million in cap space and no goalie, until 12:00 pm tomorrow that is.
You would have to think that they made this trade with the logic that they will be signing Sergei Bobrovsky and potentially Artemi Panarin as well.