A little of this and that from a Sunday without NHL hockey:

Islanders

• Back to two goalies in Bridgeport: Ken Reiter has been assigned to ECHL Fort Wayne.
• Connecticut Post on 6'3" Brock Nelson getting bigger.
• In case you didn't see this earlier, an English interview with John Tavares on playing in Switzerland.
• Kirill Petrov is 4-2-6 in 13 games so far for Ak Bars Kazan. Leads the team with 39 shots on goal. Some thoughts on his game in this comment.
• Travis Hamonic talks about meeting young fans.
• Want to learn goalie from Garth Snow? GM lessons are extra.
• Hornick on some Octobers of yesteryear.
• And the Sound Tigers lines at practice were a little different, with that all-Swede line we saw indeed together but with David Ullstrom as its center:

DeFazio-Cizikas-McDonald
Persson-Ullstrom-Sundstrom
Niederreiter-Nelson-Kabanov
Halmo-Clark-Gallant
Riley-Watkins-Backman

Around hockey:

• Very cool run down of old unis from Uni Watch through a Hockey Hall of Fame Book of Jerseys.
• Cool Google Map of NHLers now in Europe. Did not realize Wolski is playing in Poland.
  
• A review of how the lockout might affect each team on a competitive basis. Says it helps the Isles.
  
• Neil Smith says the 1994 lockout hurt hockey. But, I mean, of course he would.
  
• Mike Smith says the lockout is silly, and the players will eventually get their money anyway so just get it done.
• Good one-on-one with Donald Fehr, who's been giving a few of those to get the PA's side in the press.
• Finally, DGB: Down Goes Brown: The discarded out-takes from the NHLPA's message to fans

May your Sunday be rhetoric- and propaganda-free. (Yeah, good luck with that!)