Anthony Duclair Trade Conversation | New York Islanders Rumors

Anthony Duclair Trade Conversation | New York Islanders Rumors

Yeah. So, the trade proposal, um, bear with me. I I lost, but I know it’s Dclair and Bergen coming back. I just I they I know there’s a pick involved, right? Is it a fourth round pick next year? A 2026 fifth. 2026 fifth, right? Okay. I don’t like this package in any way, shape, or form whatsoever. Okay. How come? I don’t mind their justification. So, the way they justify it is saying like the Islanders are in a bit of a rebuild. Okay. Kind of true. Yep. Um, they’re looking to get younger. Sure. And this Bergen kid is 25 years old. Okay, fine. But what does he bring to the table exactly? The fact that he’s really good at the AHL and he’s got good SHL numbers. Like the kid’s almost point per game at the AHL level in the last three seasons, I believe. I really good AHL numbers, but when it gets to the NHL, there’s just nothing going. Like he’s been there three years and his best year was last year with like 24 points. Yeah, he’s exactly that. I was going to say 24 points in 75 games. Two years ago, 28 points in 67 games. Not really uh someone who is kind of come into his own yet at the NHL level. I personally don’t really think there’s much there. No, it’s just if the Islanders want the cap dump essentially to get out of this the contract of Anthony Duclair. So, I don’t think I’m as quick as you to say no to this deal. Not that I’m like pounding the table that like you absolutely have to trade Anthony Duclair and that it’s a no-brainer to bring in, you know, Bergrren who again hasn’t really done all that much at the NHL level on a lot of a lot of these times in these cap dump situations in recent Islanders history, they were attaching, you know, second round picks to get out of guys like, you know, uh Josh Bailey as an example. Um they traded away Andrew Lad and had to attach a bunch of picks for that. Um they actually got some picks back for for Nick Ley and that was in a way a bit of a cap dump. But I think Lety had some more value uh at that point in time than what uh Duclair has when you consider the year he’s coming off of and how much term is left on his contract. Yeah. So the thing that they kept bringing up in the article is that the the Islanders and Dclair feuded. There is a feud. I don’t know if there’s a if that’s the right word, but I’m probably just being like semantic like a semantic about it. That’s not the right word. Who cares, right? Um the argument still remains the same that there was some tension between the two sides. Yes. And and rightfully so. Head coach. Yeah. Um but he’s back and he wants it and he plays the way that the team wants to play with speed, right? Like we went over his stats the other day in terms of like his speed stats and he’s one of the faster players in the league at least in the top 10 percentile anyways for speed bursts and whatnot whereas this Bergrren kid is very much not over his last three years below 50th percentiles for top skating speed and like he’s a young kid you think that he’s you know would be fast although maybe not maybe to develop that but I don’t expect a kid who’s below 50th percentile to just all of a sudden turn into a speed demon he might get up to the 65th to 70th percentile at his best and that’s a hell of a drop off from what we got with Duke. No, it it is a big drop off and I don’t know and maybe like I’m looking at it the wrong way and this is where the our conversation can go, right? To me, it’s really not about what the Islanders are getting back in this deal. It’s about getting out of a contract that doesn’t look very good. Now, you could be holding out hope and maybe someone’s more optimistic than I am about Anthony Duclair uh and what he can do this year on the Islanders. I just see the log jam of forwards that the Islanders have and I’m going I don’t know where he fits because we talked about this on the last show. We were like, where is this guy going to be in the lineup? And you know, based off of play last year, I don’t think he played well enough to, you know, get a top six spot guaranteed. At the same time, I think I I would think to he starts out on the third line with Pasio, but I don’t know if he’s going to be crazy productive on a line with JG Po. So, it kind of feels like he’s stuck in no man’s land. Yeah. Okay. So, I’m probably too focused on the return, right? Like blinders for Burger. That’s not the right thing. But you you’re right, the bigger picture here is where does Anthony Dlair fit in this lineup and is $4 million too much? Now, when you mentioned like some people might be a little bit more optimistic, I pointed to myself, so all those with video would have seen that. Um, and I I still believe that I think you can get more for this guy if you give him more. I I I think that we saw, right, we talked about it like the preseason and the first couple of games before the injury, things were going really well. Productive at a like 60 point clip type of thing. obviously paced out. Um, if we get a 50 to 60 guy, that value goes higher and we’re not having to attach things for for maybe just because of the contract, but like we might have to give out another seventh or something like that instead of, you know, a fifth round pick, which still fifth round pick isn’t a big deal. Um, but you’re giving out less to move it off after another year. And maybe you’re call you’re getting yourself into a better prospect than someone like Burgundy, who’s not even technically a prospect, I guess, at 25 years old. Um, maybe you’re getting yourself into a guy who also doesn’t have a doesn’t have a spot on a specific team. Like I look at that 2019 draft and and I think of um Vill Hanola in Winnipeg, although I don’t know if he’s necessarily got a full-on space or or basically someone of that ilk instead of a Burg. And again, I I’m focusing on the specific player, but I think there’s a possibility here where if we wait a year, we might be able to get more for for um Zuclair Zuclair. I keep want to do it in French and English, and it’s just not working. It’s just not working. um we can get more for him after a better year than what we’ve seen last year. And to be fair, it definitely would be selling at the lowest for Anthony Duclair. And I guess part of it too is two things for me. One, how much of the relationship has been repaired between Patrick Qua and Anthony Duclair? I would think because he, you know, he played with uh Patrick Hua in the past and I thought that was a big reason for why he signed. I think there’s a chance that obviously that it could be repaired and I think it depends on what role they see him in because you know towards the towards the end of the year obviously we know he leaves the team and wasn’t with them for the final however many games but it felt like Patrick Wad didn’t really know what to do with him because he wasn’t playing up to par. And I don’t know again if that was just like hey I’m still hurt and trying to play through it and I just don’t have it or or what that is. So, if they’re confident that this is someone who’s going to go back to kind of being what he’s been, which is a 20 goal scorer and 40 point guy, little bit of a different story. But if they’re kind of looking at the roster going, I don’t really know where we’re going to fit this guy in, but we have him for three more years. I think that changes things a little

Matt and Mitch discuss Anthony Duclair as a potential trade option for the New York Islanders

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