{"id":484616,"date":"2026-03-04T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/484616\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:50:13","slug":"islanders-linked-to-conor-garland-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/484616\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Linked To Conor Garland \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

4:24 p.m.:\u00a0Myers is no longer part of conversations between the Islanders and Canucks, Rosner<\/a> reports. Whether that\u2019s because he invoked his no-movement clause is unknown.<\/p>\n

3:11 p.m.: The Islanders are in \u201cserious discussions\u201d to acquire winger\u00a0Conor Garland<\/a>\u00a0from the Canucks, Stefen Rosner of NHL.com<\/a> reports. Defenseman\u00a0Tyler Myers<\/a>\u00a0could also be headed to the Isles in the deal if he\u2019s willing to waive his no-movement clause, something that\u2019s been holding up a deal ever since he was removed from Vancouver\u2019s lineup<\/a> to avoid an injury risk last week.<\/p>\n

The Isles aren\u2019t alone in their push to acquire Garland this week, particularly among their competitors in the Eastern Conference playoff race. CHEK\u2019s Rick Dhaliwal had the Isles\u2019 pursuit of Garland<\/a> this morning, along with the Bruins and Senators as interested parties. As we covered over the weekend, there\u2019s a connection between Garland and Sens head coach Travis Green<\/a>, who used to oversee him in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Rosner\u2019s reporting indicates the Islanders have at least emerged as frontrunners, even if it\u2019s not a done deal. The Isles have been looking to add players with term after adding\u00a0Ondrej Palat<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Carson Soucy<\/a>\u00a0in a pair of trades before the Olympic break, and are open to moving a first-round pick to do so, general manager Mathieu Darche said in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Isles have persisted through a pair of early-season blows that saw defender\u00a0Alexander Romanov<\/a>\u00a0and winger\u00a0Kyle Palmieri<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 both important supporting pieces \u2013 sustain season-ending injuries (although Romanov could be an option to return in a first-round playoff series). Soucy and Palat emerged as cheap replacements weeks later, but the Isles have gone 6-2-0 since acquiring them to boost their playoff chances up to around 75%, per MoneyPuck<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That has Darche looking to reward his team for pushing through the blows dealt by the Romanov and Palmieri injuries, and he\u2019s comfortable sparing the assets to do it with the success he had in restocking the organization\u2019s cupboards at last year\u2019s draft. Now armed with a franchise cornerstone on defense in\u00a0Matthew Schaefer<\/a>, he\u2019ll need to assess what he\u2019s willing to move to boost an offense that ranks 21st in the league at 2.92 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Garland would go a long way toward doing that and, with the six-year, $36MM extension he signed last summer yet to kick in, is far from a rental option. In addition to boosting their forward corps this season, he becomes a controllable insurance policy for next year and beyond in case they can\u2019t manage to come to agreements with pending UFAs Anders Lee<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jean-Gabriel Pageau<\/a>\u00a0before July 1.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s assuming the 29-year-old\u2019s struggles this season are more a product of him being on a last-place team in Vancouver rather than individual decline. The 5\u201910\u201d winger has never been an exceptional finisher, relying more on consistent shot volume to hover around 20 goals a year. Even so, his shooting percentage is down to 6.8 this year, resulting in him only lighting the lamp seven times through 49 games. On the whole, his 25 points make for his worst per-game showing since his rookie year in Arizona back in 2018-19.<\/p>\n

Between 2019 and 2025, though, Garland was incredibly consistent. Aside from a career-best 0.80 points per game rate in the shortened 2020-21 season, his average stayed in a relatively small window between 0.57 and 0.68. Just last season, his 19 goals and 50 points were only a few short of setting a career high in each category.<\/p>\n

Myers isn\u2019t a pure rental either, but is a shorter-term pickup with another year left after this one at a $3MM cap hit. His shutdown ability is less of a need with the Isles already boasting the fifth-best defense in the league, but they could view him as a short-term upgrade over\u00a0Scott Mayfield<\/a>\u00a0, who\u2019s struggled to control possession in his third-pairing role. That\u2019s in spite of Mayfield having better boxcar stats across the board this season, but Myers has dealt with a much more difficult workload in higher deployment.<\/p>\n

If the Isles were to acquire both, they\u2019d have to move out a contract if Vancouver isn\u2019t retaining any salary, even with Garland\u2019s current $4.95MM cap hit before it jumps to $6MM next season. That could be winger\u00a0Anthony Duclair<\/a>\u00a0if he\u2019s willing to waive his no-trade clause \u2013 David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period reported over the weekend<\/a> that they were shopping him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4:24 p.m.:\u00a0Myers is no longer part of conversations between the Islanders and Canucks, Rosner reports. Whether that\u2019s because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[1613,5,159,30,19654,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-484616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-conor-garland","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-york-islanders","11":"tag-newsstand","12":"tag-tyler-myers","13":"tag-vancouver-canucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116170288344696968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}