What is the story about?
The
Islanders are just days away from adding another top prospect to their system, unless they trade their pick for a 30-year-old. The mock drafts overfloweth; someone rated between 10th and 18th will probably be theirs. It will be both brilliant and inexcusable, a steal and a reach.
Islanders News
- This day in Islanders history: Anthony Beauvillier extends the series and closes the Coliseum with an OT winner. [Isles]
- Here’s a mock draft with the Isles taking 6’5″ Swedish defenseman Malte Gustafsson, if OHL LW Ethan Belchetz and NCAA C Tynan Lawrence are off the board. [Athletic]
- Here’s another saying Lawrence or else “two-way forward” Oliver Suvanto. [NHL]
Elsewhere
- The latest Hall of Fame class was announced and no-brainer Patrice Bergeron is joined by Keith Tkachuk and Penne Rinne for some reason. (Brian Burke, too…by sheer volume, I suppose.) [NHL]
- Rumblings on Dylan Larkin, Jason Robertson, the Panthers’ goalie conundrum and more. [ESPN]
- More on the Brady Tkachuk trade, which Steve Staios confirmed came from a trade request. [NHL]
- The “Real Kyper” trade board is updated with LOTS of names, many of them plausible, though no Islanders on the list. [Sportsnet]
- Darren Raddysh talks about the poetry of returning home to Toronto, where fans will surely chase him out like he’s Larry Murphy within a couple of seasons. [TSN]
- The Sabres have decisions to make with Bowen Byram and Alex Tuch. [TSN]
- The Oilers have extended Connor Murphy for five years. [TSN] Not sure that and the Dickinson deal are the slam-dunk, defense-is-fixed moves they’re making it out to be. [TSN]
