In trying to build a team general managers need to exploit whatever strength they have to fix a weakness. Trading players is the way to do so. A GM’s ability to ship expendable players and assets to acquire more valuable ones is paramount.
Lou’s predecessor wasn’t the greatest when it came to trades, though the one exception to that was whenever he’d deal with Peter Chiarelli. Three times Garth Snow got the better of the former Boston Bruins and now Edmonton Oilers GM.
For this piece, I want to detail all the trades that went into building the 2018-19 version of the New York Islanders and then grade them on a scale of one to five.