- Eklund via twitter: The Islanders have traded for goalie Tim Thomas.
- Arthur Staple via twitter: The Islanders send a conditional 2nd round pick in either 2014 or 2015 to the Bruins for Tim Thomas.
- Arthur Staple via twitter: 2nd round pick is conditional on Thomas playing at least 1 game for the Islanders. GM Garth Snow: ”This move gives us roster flexibility.”
- Bob McKenzie via twitter: “The Boston Bruins only get a draft pick from the Islanders for Tim Thomas if he reports to them or any other team if NYI trade his rights.”
- Arthur Staple via twitter: “Move is cap-related — #Isles needed to be over the floor by tomorrow, needed insurance against not being cap compliant the entire season.”
- Dan Tencer via twitter: “Cap circumvention at its finest: Islanders get above floor just in time for deadline by trading for a guy they know they don’t have to pay.
- Pierre LeBrun via twitter: Bill Daly: “As long as a Player has an active contract that he has the right to return to absent unusual circumstances, our view is that he remains a “hockey asset” that a Club has a right to trade or acquire.
- Arthur Staple via twitter: The Islanders are unlikely to “toll” Thomas’ contract.
- B.D. Gallof via twitter: “What is not SAID here is if future trades would happen to place #isles under the cap.”
- Jim Matheson via twitter: Matheson thinks that this is the type of deal that Bettman should step in and squash.
Thomas carries a $5 million salary cap hit and a $3 million salary.
#1 by Hawky at February 7th, 2013
GO LEAFS GO
GO GARTH SNOW!
#2 by hotwings at February 7th, 2013
new york islanders… home of the players who have no interest in playing for the new york islanders.
add him to the list of yashin, nabokov and vishnovsky