If the new NHL CBA includes a contract amnesty clause, would it spell the end of Rick DiPietro's time with the Islanders?

While their game in this dimension was canceled due to the lockout, on the parallel Earth-Z, the Islanders and Devils did play a pre-season game at Barclays Center on October 2, 2012. Via the miracle of time travel, here is the recap and box score.

New York Islanders fans waited all summer long to check out hockey at the Barclays Center. Thanks to the incompetent blowhards who run the league and NHLPA, they will now wait much, much longer.

Bill Torrey still plays a role with the Florida Panthers today. What if the "Gang of Four" owners never sent him packing from the New York Islanders?

Taking a long look at what a New York based, Yankee Stadium hosted Winter Classic could look like.

Playing What If: What if Mike Milbury, with four first-rounders in the 1999 NHL draft, had outmaneuvered Brian Burke to take the Sedin twins instead?

In a dream world where the NHL expanded back to WHA relics Quebec and Winnipeg, where would the new teams fit?

The SBNation major-domo, Travis Hughes, is pleased to announce that the NHL is faux-spanding to Winnipeg and Quebec City, with the not-actual-return of the Jets and Nordiques to imaginary...

Thought exercise: If the NHL expanded this summer, which Islanders would be left unprotected in an expansion draft?