Comeau Claimed On Waivers

Isles Decide To Cut Ties With Comeau;

Lost On Waivers To The Calgary Flames

Following the 2010-11 National Hockey League season, Blake Comeau was thought of as an above average NHL'er. Islanders fans were confident that Comeau would be an asset to the organization in one way or another. Some thought he would be a great source of secondary scoring that would help boost the club into the playoffs, while others thought he'd be better served as a trading chip that would enable the Isles to acquire a top-four defenseman. Unfortunately, neither one worked out as Blake Comeau fell short of every expectation set for him this year. 

In 16 games for the Islanders he had NO points, yup thats right NONE...to truly put that in perspective Comeau is in a group of only nine other NHL players that have played at least 16 games and have zero points. Of those nine, two of them didn't have any NHL action in the 2010-11 season, while the other seven who did play in the NHL last year had an average of a little less than 10 points on the season. When you take into account that Comeau had nearly five times that, it truly becomes eye opening. 

I would say that eighty percent of the time he was on the ice this year he was a bit of a liability and unfortunately that ruined every hope of him being an asset in some capacity for the Islanders. With the tremendous struggles of the team thus far, I don't blame Garth Snow in the least for wanting to wake up the team and get out the under achievers as soon as possible and quite honestly I expect to see a few more veterans following Comeau's footsteps towards waivers. 

Blake Comeau's time with the Islanders has been a peculiar one, with many ups and many downs. I mean at one point last year it looked like he might have been a waiver casualty as well when he started out the year in Scott Gordon's dog house and Charles Wang's press box. Of coarse that quickly changed once Gordon left and Jack Capuano was introduced as the interim coach at which point the always inconsistent Comeau decided to start playing. It truly is amazing how inconsistent Comeau was throughout his Islanders career, I look at my 2010-11 Season Review of Comeau and my 11/17/2011 Game Review and when you read my comments on Comeau and its hard to believe that I am talking about the same player.

With this decision also comes the departure of one of the final remaining players from the Mike Milbury era as now only Frans Nielsen and Rick DiPietro are left. I personally wish Blake Comeau all the luck in the world with the Flames, but I just don't see Comeau as a player that will ever truly succeed at the NHL level with how maddeningly inconsistent his play is.