Intrepid hockey journalist James Mirtle picked up this gem on how the Islanders organization is being run. It's all pretty funny, but there can only be one winner, so we'll give that honor to ex-Islanders scout Doug Gibson:
"If there had been a camera on our table, it would have been interesting," Gibson said, "because (the scouts) were flabbergasted at some of the names that were being thrown around."
So remember how in June I said that St. Cloud fans should be happy to see that Jase Weslosky got drafted ahead of other top 2007 recruits like Alex Kangas, Richard Bachman, and Marc Cheverie. Yeah, forget about that.
The funny thing is that I don't think the Islanders actually had that bad of a draft. One complaint was how the scouts were basically forced to draft Kyle Okposo with the first pick, but I've been really impressed with Okposo. I thought they got a nice steal later in the draft with Rhett Rakhshani.
Basically giving up on amateur scouting is going to come back to cost the Islanders eventually. Although really, things can't get much worse for them. This has really become one of the most laughable organizations in sports.
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Oh darn the Isles got KO, the will make them change their minds soon.
I see this kid making a huge impact in the NHL some day.
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I agree. I hope Okposo does make a huge splash in the NHL. Unfortunately, with the Islanders, it could possibly be with another team.... or, my favorite screwball idea would be to sign Okposo to a 1 year rookie deal and then find some way to resign him 1 year later for perhaps a 20 year contract :D
My fear would be that they will sign him before he is ready.
I don't think that the point is that Okposo looks like a solid player — the point is that the team didn't even look for input on the player from its own scouting staff.
Even if they're drafting the next Ilya Kovalchuk, that's not a good system.
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