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Quiet day in the pursuit of left wing Ilya Kovalchuk as it appears the teams involved and Kovalchuk’s camp will be waiting until after the July 4 holiday before picking things up again.

"That's a tough thing, and as much as I would love him to play here, for my mind it would just be, you know, the old dad syndrome. And boy we've worked hard to try to get out of that; he's his own man and he's made his own image and player profile ... As much as I'd love to see it I think it would work against him."

The [Islanders] absolutely have to come away with a 1A type of goaltender. I'm fairly certain Florida free agent Craig Anderson is at the top of that list.