This “potential” third round pick right now is a fifth rounder. There are no guarantees that Pitt even makes the playoffs, much less wins a round and dresses Guerin for 50% of the games (of course, now I’m rooting for all of that to occur).

I just think that the Isles are going to need some vets up front next year and keeping your Captain was a good place to start. Especially when the return was a border-line useless fifth round pick.

For starters, Bill Guerin is not Alex Ovechkin, but he’s also not Jon Sim. This is a guy who was the captain of the team, a great example to younger guys of how to conduct yourself as a professional player and how to play the game the right way. Oh, and by the way, he happened to be the second leading scorer and the top scoring forward on the team at the time of the trade.

Everything Bill Guerin brought to the table for this team, on the ice and off, is worth far more than a fifth round pick (I know it can escalate to a third, but a lot has to happen for that to happen and nobody can be sure it will. So the trade was for a fifth, not a third).

Snow blew it with this move. I don’t understand where its written in stone that because he’s 38 he had to be traded? Snow should have done a cost-benefit analysis on dealing Guerin as opposed to keeping him and re-signing him for at least another year. I submit that a re-signed Guerin is worth far more to this team, this year as well as next, than a fifth round pick.

Here’s a news flash for everyone who thinks this was a good deal: whether you like it or not, the Islanders MUST have veterans on this team next season. There is an NHL salary cap floor to be concerned with, as well as the fact that the Islanders prospect pool just isn’t that deep, certainly not deep enough to ice an entire NHL squad. By peddling Guerin off for the equivalent of a bag of pucks, you’ve peddled off your team captain for nothing. Good luck getting any quality veterans in here over the summer.

Bottom line: bad trade. Should have held onto Guerin if the compensation wasn’t at LEAST at guaranteed second. If Kyle McLaren can bring back a sixth, how does Guerin only bring back a fifth? If Snow had handled this better, he wouldn’t have been forced to move Guerin.

also all he was doing was taking valuable ice time away from players we need to develop-if guerin isnt pulled out of the last 2 games, we do not get a glimpse of jonesu, who would you rather seeing playing now?

Why is Sim always on waivers?

I hate cutting up other fans, but some of you have no clue.

Sure it would have been great to get more for Billy. But if you look at the day as a whole, not many people overpaid for players today.

Things didn’t get crazy this year like years passed.

Billy is 38 years old free agent. He is not a superstar.

The only teams that overpaid today was probably the Rangers for Morris, and Philly losing Lupul.

Garth is doing just fine.

I just wish people would think before they make comments.

If anyone watched the interview with Snow post-game would realize that the smug S.O.B. is not worthy of the position.