Islanders, Brock Nelson agree to three-year contract extension

Still, despite talk the Isles have made, presumably highly lucrative, contract extension offers to Nelson in the recent past, Nelson’s agent, Ron Salcer indicated to Staple that as if this week they had not heard from the Islanders in six weeks.

It’s still hard to imagine the Islanders allowing it to reach a point where Nelson, one of their better young players and an important part of their forward depth, does not play this season.

Snow controls the situation as Salcer and Nelson do not have arbitration rights, but the pair still rejected the Islanders’ qualifying offer. Chara did, in fact, end up playing the 2000-01 season for the Islanders.

Nelson is coming off of a 20-goal season in just his second year in the National Hockey League as the 23-year-old spent time working with the first line last season.

Isbister was traded two years later to the Edmonton Oilers, along with former top-five pick Raffi Torres, in exchange for defenseman Janne Niinimaa.

The Islanders, who have reached the postseason in two of the previous three seasons, will kick off their first full campaign as Barclays Center tenants on Monday night in an exhibition game against the visiting Philadelphia Flyers. “And they’re the ones keeping him from that”. With Nelson a restricted free agent his leverage was limited, and so another Islanders player complies by owner Charles Wang’s rule: any RFA who isn’t signed by the time camp begins sits for the entire season.

Meanwhile, Newsday also reported that contract talks between Snow and Kyle Okposo’s agent, Pat Brisson, have gone nowhere and that Okposo could be available via trade.

In 154 career games, Nelson has scored 34 goals and 34 assists.