Most of us have gone and tinkered around with Cap Friendly’s Armchair-GM feature to build the 2019-20 New York Islanders as if we were Lou Lamoriello. And a number of us have included Jeff Skinner within those builds.
After all, he’s a recent 40 goal scorer and with an expiring contract. The only cost to the Islanders could have been the salary the Islanders would have to pay him. And that salary was less than the Panarin or Marner possibilities.
Unfortunately, the Buffalo Sabres got to Skinner first and were able to lock him up with a long-term deal that carries a pretty large AAV as well.