Nelson finished last season with 20 goals and 42 points, but disappeared over a 50-game stretch, scoring just five goals. Since Charles Wang became Islanders owner, his rule has been that players who do not sign by the time camp starts are out for the entire year.
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Nelson rejected the Islanders qualifying offer, as well as a two-year deal.
The New York Islanders and forward Brock Nelson and have agreed to a three-year contract extension, the team announced Wednesday. On top of that, he scoffed at the Isles’ qualifying offer for quite some time.
We haven’t heard from them in six weeks.
After the two sides failed to gain much traction in negotiations throughout the summer, Nelson and the Islanders finally came to terms before Thursday’s 7 a.m. ET deadline, when the winger would have needed to report for a pre-training camp physical in order to be eligible to play for the Islanders this season.
Earlier this week it appeared as if a deal wouldn’t get done after Nelson’s agent told Arthur Staple of Newsday that he and Islanders general manager Garth Snow hadn’t talked for six weeks.
Over the last two National Hockey League seasons, Brock Nelson has begun to deliver on the promise that made the New York Islanders select him in the first-round of the 2010 National Hockey League Draft. As a rookie in 2013-14, the former University of North Dakota player had 14 goals and 12 assists in 72 regular-season games.
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But with the other contracts sure to trouble Snow in the coming months – Kyle Okposo, Frans Nielsen, Michael Grabner – Nelson and Salcer may simply be stuck in a situation where a good player is falling by the wayside as better, more integral and well-established players take precedent. The Islanders’ captain carries a reasonable $5.5 million salary cap hit over the next three seasons.
