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Islanders return home for another meeting with a recent Cup champ as the spicy mustard-wearing team from Vegas visits Long Island.
First Islanders Goal picks for tonight go here.
Islanders News
- Previewing tonight: The Golden Knights are 14-6-8. [Isles]
- If (and when) J-G Pageau returns to the lineup, that forces some decisions that trickle throughout the lineup. [Newsday]
- Inside the Isles’ dads trip. [Isles]
- Alright, alright calm down ladies, Cal Ritchie’s dad is in the house. [Isles]
- In the latest Islanders Anxiety podcast, Dan and Mike discover the latest script turn from this past week. [LHH]
- Patrick Roy wasn’t demoting Max Shabanov, just trying something different, when he swapped him with Simon Holmstrom after Shabanov’s mistake on the Verghaeghe goal. [Post]
- Prospect Report: Quinn Finley racking up points and Kashawn Aitcheson, Victor Eklund and Tomas Poletín getting World Junior camp invitations. [Isles | THN]
- Ilya Sorokin was named NHL First Star of the Week. [Isles]
- Benoit Hogue, Josh Bailey and Matt Martin are among the Isles alums who will face the “Shoresy” crew. [Post]
Elsewhere
Five games in the NHL last night, including the Leafs shutting out the Lightning — so how impressive were the Isles’ last two wins, really? — and the Red Wings shutting out the Canucks.
- NBC gets Jon Hamm to do a fun Olympic promo with a nod to 1980 and the rivalry with Canada. [NHL]
- Speaking of which, the latest rink report in Italy is “positive.” [NHL | Sportsnet]
- If the Flames aren’t careful, they’re going to play themselves out of the bets lottery odds. [Sportsnet]
- Noah Dobson premature celebration of a buzzer-beater tying goal that wasn’t sparks a premature ovation in Montreal:
