Scott Mayfield

So it's going to be a really hard balance if the Islanders want to win hockey games to play Schaefer, but I think it's something that thankfully the Islanders are conscious of and they're going to pay attention to.

Now, so they lose Romanoff, but is it fair to say Scotty Mayfield coming in now?

Scotty Mayfield is coming in now.

He's obviously one of the fan favorites.

Most fans.

So it's going to be a really hard balance if the Islanders want to win hockey games to play Schaefer, but I think it's something that thankfully the Islanders are conscious of and they're going to pay attention to.

Now, so they lose Romanoff, but is it fair to say Scotty Mayfield coming in now?

Scottie Mayfield is coming in now.

He's obviously one of the fan favorites.

on the roster who have been sitting in the press box for all three games so far this season.

And those players are Scott Mayfield, who has played lots of minutes for the Islanders before, but hasn't seen the ice yet this year, and Matthew Kessel, who the Islanders signed over the offseason and has also been in the press box.

So we'll see.

if that's the route that the Islanders take, where you simply insert Kessel or Mayfield into the lineup, activate Barzee, put Romanov on LTIR, and it frees up some cap space.

You know, run from it, dread it.

You know, Scott Mayfield arrives all the same.

He'll be probably back in the lineup playing.

So you got essentially two Scott Mayfields and Logan Stanley and Scott Mayfield playing now.

So it's tough for the Islanders, man, to lose him.

It really is.

The offense is whatever, but defense is here.

And this kind of leads to where maybe the Islanders need to make a trade here.

Even though K'Shawn Acheson really impressed in camp, you still have a couple defensemen on your active roster that can slide in, in a Matthew Kessel, who we saw play some games with St. Louis recently.

And obviously, I don't know if this is Scott's May- Scott Mayfield's music, Scotty, but I know some Islanders fans don't wanna hear that.

By God, it's Scott Mayfield.

Lot of Islanders fans don't like his play recently.

Still has some years left, but, uh, we'll see if Scott Mayfield's in the lineup tonight at UBS.

He probably will be over a guy like Matthew Kessel.

But I just feel for Romanov.

But then you look at the defensive pairs, right? Um, Stanley/Schaefer should not be a defensive pair.

Um, the other two are Pelech/Pohlak and then Tony D'Angelo and Scott Mayfield.

Notably, Tony D'Angelo is also playing on his offside here.

A- and I understand what the Islanders are doing here, and I will defend that I think long-term it makes sense for the Islanders to develop Schaefer as a right defenseman, right? You look at where there's need in the league.

The question just comes with the rest of this lineup, right? Pelech/Pohlak I think is a fine pair.

Um, honestly, at this point, uh, Pohlak kinda needs a babysitter and, and Pelech can be that, right? I think that will stabilize the second pair.

Um, but you are asking Schaefer a lot to make Stanley a first pair defenseman, right? And we saw him play last year with Scott Mayfield, so this is something that Schaefer is definitely able to do.

It's just, these pairings.

So we got the Romanov is done for the year news, but we don't know how they're going to fill that.

They have both Matthew Kessel and Scott Mayfield on their, I guess, scratch list right now.

They're both right shots.

So my best guess is Schaefer and Pellick break up.

Pellick moves back with Ryan Pollock.

And then Stanley D'Angelo remains the third pair, moving Scott Mayfield up with Matthew Schaefer or Matthew Kessel, depending on what their interest is.

But we have seen Schaefer and Mayfield together before.

So I think this is right.

And, and when you consider this team is still gonna struggle to score goals, not having t- the ability to put a pair like that together consistently is gonna be a big blow to this team.

Um, the only player I guess this is a positive update for, of course, he doesn't wanna see this happen, but Scott Mayfield is highly likely to get back into the lineup.

I imagine he's going to play with Logan Stanley, and that doesn't really sound like a good pair.

It's gonna be rough.