{"id":34256,"date":"2025-07-03T03:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34256\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T03:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:18:10","slug":"islanders-gm-mathieu-darche-pulling-off-almost-impossible-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34256\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders GM Mathieu Darche pulling off almost impossible task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pair of mandates handed to Mathieu Darche upon getting the job as general manager of the Islanders are almost always impossible to make work simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Set up the Islanders for the future. And keep them competitive in the present.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the first overall pick in hand, a stroke of dumb luck that changed the Islanders\u2019 outlook almost completely, nothing about this was easy.<\/p>\n<p>This was the tightrope the first-time GM was walking a week ago, and he did so <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/27\/sports\/islanders-trade-noah-dobson-to-canadiens-in-pre-draft-shakeup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with Noah Dobson\u2019s contract negotiation hanging over him<\/a>, along with the growing knowledge around the league that the Islanders wanted to trade for a second top 10 pick and draft James Hagens. In both situations, Darche held little to no leverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pair of mandates handed to Mathieu Darche upon getting the job as general manager of the Islanders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[28367,1301,28368,293,62,2632,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-34256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-mathieu-darche","9":"tag-new-york-islanders","10":"tag-new-york-islanders-video","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114787143238015056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}