It’s not often that an NHL team gets four first round picks and whiff on every single one of them. The New York Islanders did just that in 1999.
The 1998-99 New York Islanders finished with just 58 points. Only the Tampa Bay Lightning were worse with 47 points.
It was the fifth year in a row that the Islanders had missed the playoffs. A change was clearly needed. So Isles GM Mike Milbury traded away some of his valuable veteran players in order to refresh and rebuild from the draft.
He also needed to clear som salary.