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@NHLAlumni Aw, I was a big fan of his growing up. Too soon

The NHL Alumni Association is deeply saddened to learn that Paul Boutilier has passed away at the age of 63. A defenseman, Paul played major junior hockey with the QMJHL’s Sherbrooke Castors beginning in 1980, and was selected by the New York Islanders in the first round of the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. Paul made his NHL debut later that year, skating in his first career game on October 31, 1981, with the Islanders at the Montreal Forum, later returning to Sherbrooke for the remainder of the season. Paul split time between the NHL and the QMJHL during the 1982-83 season, appearing in 29 games for the Islanders, and scored his first NHL goal on November 18, 1982, at home at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Playing in his final season of major junior hockey, Paul served as team captain for the newly relocated Saint-Jean Castors. Paul joined the Islanders for the 1983 Stanley Cup Playoffs, appearing in two games as the Islanders captured the final of their four consecutive Stanley Cups. After 213 regular-season games with the Islanders from 1981 to 1986, Paul would go on to play for the Boston Bruins and Minnesota North Stars the following season, and later for the New York Rangers and Winnipeg Jets, respectively. From Sydney, Nova Scotia, Paul returned to his home province after the conclusion of his playing career, accepting a position as an assistant coach for Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, serving in the role from 1991 to 1993 before being promoted to head coach, a position he held until 1997. With a wealth of knowledge and experience, Paul later served in a multitude of coaching and front office positions across the collegiate, junior, and professional levels of hockey. Internationally, Paul proudly represented Canada on multiple occasions and at both the junior and senior levels, highlighted by a gold medal at the 1982 World Junior Hockey Championships. We send our deepest condolences to Paul’s family, friends, and former teammates during this incredibly difficult time.

Legend. No one will ever come close.

@philzfactz @capconstrained Once again, for the slow, I’m speaking specifically about Pageau. And if you don’t understand his value to youth development, you’re my precise audience.

@fraumance @capconstrained By blocking their path with a bunch of olds in their way?

If the #isles simply didnt add Palat and Schenn and instead traded Pageau at the deadline then not only would they have 4-5 draft picks in the top 100 this summer instead of just 1, but they’d also have an additional 20 million in cap space.

@capconstrained @philzfactz Basic understanding around how you bring youth up into an organization is beyond most fans.

@philzfactz @fraumance Basic probability is beyond most fans. You trade aging assets at the TD for futures. Only exception is if you have a top eight team. FTR, I wanted to trade Pelech and Pageau at the TD.

Perennial All Star players when they get to the Mets

@philzfactz 😂 I’m speaking about trading Pager but whenever you’re wrong you go hair on fire to some other dumbass lane. Good day sir. Carry on.

@fraumance Your right all these Darche moves were actually great I’m very excited that we have these old overpriced fossils Schenn and Palat on the books for next season and that we’re taking a 3.5m cap penalty because we acquired them, objectively good work.

@philzfactz Please. Stop. Weakest argument yet in a weak ass thread to begin with.

@fraumance I thought that Schenn and Palat were brought in to be the leadership guys how many leaders does this team need?

@philzfactz Leadership for one thing, versatility for another and being the only serious PK guy lastly. He makes every young player around him better and CC isn’t even in the same stratosphere.

@fraumance Why not? They already have Horvat Barzal Ritchie and Cizikas down the middle.

@isles47 @philzfactz 😂

@philzfactz But he really wants your forgiveness

A half decent GM and the #isles are carving up Pitt in 5, I’ll never forgive Darche for what he stole from us.

@stefen_rosner @TheElmonters Barzal’s problem is he’s trying too hard to make up for all of the deficiencies that currently exist in the lineup. Fill some of those gaps and I expect we will see the best of 13.

The easiest thing to do after a late-season collapse is look at the most talented player and ask if he’s the problem. That’s where the conversation has gone with #Isles forward Mathew Barzal. And honestly, it’s lazy. @TheElmonters theelmonters.com/p/mathew-barza…

@IsleStotle Agreed on waiting til game 78. I guess he was as enthralled as we were with the dramatic comebacks (/s). Ultimately it’s a good move but yes, wish it happened at 50 instead.

To be clear: I’m a HUGE Pete DeBoer fan — This hire will be fantastic for the #Isles — My concern is that the PR spin on Darche’s decision-making is overly positive The timing/logic deserve to be questioned Therefore, question it! __ NYI need a 4-0 run now Let us pray.

@philzfactz 🤡🤡🤡

Will very likely drop to fifth in the Metro before the night is done, what a disaster by Darche.

@philzfactz @pageau_s 🤡🤡🤡

By the time the #isles play their next game they will likely be the 12th seed in the Easter conference I cannot remember in my lifetime a more epic late season collapse by them than this one and it all falls squarely on the shoulders of the general manager.

@Spazemunky Duke should be expelled from Artemis 2

Annoying #Isles prediction… There’s gonna be stories about how Anthony Duclair is having a “fresh start” or a “ clean slate” with DaBoer and then within two months into next season we’re all gonna be annoyed again and begging for him to be traded

Love the move to remove Roy, but anyone saying Duclair needs to be on the top line really needs to go find out what chloroform smells like. #isles

@angryirishmac @islanders_takes Valid. I wanted to support Roy but perhaps it’s time.

@fraumance @islanders_takes Roy isn’t a good coach. Playing Schaefer 28-60 minutes a game and hoping Ilya stands on his head isn’t coaching.

#isles I'm reading all your comments, guys, but I'm going to disagree with a lot of them. This team doesn't need more grit. It has loads of grit. This team doesn't need more speed. It's fast enough. This team needs skill and finish, yes, but that's not what's happening right now. This team needs a coach. They are getting outmatched behind the bench. They were unprepared to play. They have a terrible scheme that has been a struggle all year long defensively. They have the worst changes in the NHL and it's not close. The PP is a disaster. They can't manage the game at all. It's coaching before everything right now. It's coaching.

@dk13_chrisdano @Cjpearson The revisions are mind boggling. It’s all market manipulation imo and its been going on for at least 25 years

@Cjpearson These are fake as shit. Every month they post fake numbers and then revise downward. There are no jobs and the ones that are out there go to visa recipients

🚨 HUGE: The U.S. economy added 178,000 jobs in March. The expectation was just 60,000! And that includes a gain of 15,000 manufacturing jobs.

Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes. $1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity. One hour before the announcement. Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time. They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades. Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium. The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened. This is not the first time. It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves. But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it. Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind. These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world. I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here. This isn't politics anymore. This is a financial operation running out of the White House.