{"id":77467,"date":"2025-12-21T23:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/77467\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:47:10","slug":"islanders-trade-needs-are-clear-but-timing-is-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/77467\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders’ trade needs are clear \u2014 but timing is complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Islanders\u2019 injuries have at least made one part of Mathieu Darche\u2019s pending job easier: It\u2019s not hard to discern what his needs are in the trade market.<\/p>\n

The NHL\u2019s rosters are frozen through Dec. 27, but a steady left-handed defenseman and a top six winger are at the top of the Islanders\u2019 Christmas list. In other words, replacements for Alexander Romanov<\/a> and Kyle Palmieri<\/a>, who are out for the season after right shoulder surgery and a torn ACL, respectively.<\/p>\n

Adam Boqvist and Travis Mitchell both had extended spells in Romanov\u2019s spot, both of which produced promising moments but little to show they would last there for the rest of the season. The Islanders tried Marshall Warren there for Saturday\u2019s 3-2 shootout loss in Buffalo<\/a> and the Long Island native looked more like another stopgap than anything else, though he deserves another game Tuesday against the Devils before the holiday break.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of more internal options the Islanders could try once Isaiah George and Ethan Bear get healthy. George showed promise in a 33-game NHL stint last season but injuries \u2014 he suffered an apparent lower-body injury on Friday after recently returning from an upper-body injury \u2014 have been the main complicating factor of his season. Bear, a natural righty but one with 275 NHL games on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9, got hurt in training camp and hasn\u2019t been heard from since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islanders\u2019 injuries have at least made one part of Mathieu Darche\u2019s pending job easier: It\u2019s not hard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29605,9,11,6821,10,539,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-77467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-mathieu-darche","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-islanders","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}