{"id":497143,"date":"2026-03-01T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497143\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:10:09","slug":"islanders-shopping-anthony-duclair-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497143\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders Shopping Anthony Duclair \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Islanders have deemed themselves at least soft buyers heading into the deadline after their pickups of\u00a0Carson Soucy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ond\u0159ej Pal\u00e1t<\/a>\u00a0before the Olympic break. One thing they don\u2019t have a bevy of is cap space. Their roughly $6MM is enough to wheel and deal on deadline day, but that\u2019s with the club using a good deal of long-term injured reserve placements.<\/p>\n

One option the club has pursued this season to continue shuffling the deck is moving on from the remainder of\u00a0Anthony Duclair<\/a>\u2018s contract, according to David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period<\/a>. Pagnotta writes that dealing Duclair is something they\u2019ve been open to all season, but with the winger holding a full no-trade clause, their options will be limited if they have any at all.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to see why the Islanders would be willing to part ways with Duclair. He\u2019s rebounded somewhat with a 12-14\u201326 scoring line in 54 games this year, but he\u2019s still performing below his career average and is coming off a disastrous first year on Long Island last season, derailed by an early-season leg injury.<\/p>\n

With Duclair churning out at least capable third-line scoring numbers this season, though, his $3.5MM cap hit through 2027-28 suddenly becomes more palatable to potential suitors. The 6\u20190\u2033 lefty has been prone to some wild year-to-year swings in his career, but is still a 20-goal, 42-point man on average per 82 games.<\/p>\n

For a team that just added Pal\u00e1t through next season and is looking to get young center\u00a0Calum Ritchie<\/a>\u00a0more ice time moving forward, the Isles could stand to drop a forward with term. They don\u2019t have many pending UFAs up front, and the ones they do, Anders Lee<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Jean-Gabriel Pageau<\/a>, are well-respected veterans they likely have at least some interest in retaining \u2013 especially Lee, their captain who\u2019s spent all 14 of his NHL seasons with the club.<\/p>\n

Of course, it all depends on Duclair being amenable to a specific change of scenery. If not, they\u2019ll have to wait until the summer when his NTC downgrades to a 16-team no-trade list on July 1 to open up more options.<\/p>\n

That may be the better move anyway. The Isles have a 66.3% shot at ending up in the playoff picture (per MoneyPuck<\/a>), but won\u2019t get there because of an excess of scoring. Duclair\u2019s 12 goals are tied for seventh on the team, and his 26 points are sixth. That\u2019s valuable production for a team scoring 2.86 goals per game, 22nd in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Islanders have deemed themselves at least soft buyers heading into the deadline after their pickups of\u00a0Carson Soucy\u00a0and\u00a0Ond\u0159ej…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[75616,394,385,99],"class_list":["post-497143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-anthony-duclair","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}