Islanders News: Lovely evening in the city; Dominator gets his due; Perreault pounds Panthers

Oh, not much. Just a regular old Tuesday night.

Islanders links

• Recaps of a home invasion: LHH | Staple on the twists n' turns | Steve Zipay on the historic win | Special Guest Star: The New York Times | NY Post | NY Daily News | Islanders | NHL.com |
• NEW! Eric Hornick's Skinny has some interesting stuff involving... Chico Resch (and Jaroslav Halak).
• Puck Daddy says that no matter what the Islanders say, it wasn't just another game.
• Stefan Bondy descends from his gilded basketball hoop to stump for a Rangers-Islanders playoff series that he can slot into his New York sports history rolodex whenever he wants to prove he knows more than everybody else. [NY Daily News]
• The Rangers get the immediate post-game "Is it panic time?" story from ESPN. Guys, seriously?
• The win brought out some creative meme-making and Twitter trolling. [LHH]
• HockeyGoalieEh has the possession tables, which looked good for the visitors. [LHH]
• Islanders are all aboard the Corsi Express. [Newsday]
• Before the game, our own Michael Leeboff put the New York Hockey Derby into proper perspective.
  
• Episode 8 of Newsday's Last Season on Long Island video series is about the rivalry.
• Tuesday's Sound Tigers notes include an appearance by new recruit Matt Lashoff. [Soundin' Off]
• Penn State goalie Eamon McAdam is the Big 10's Third Star of the Week. [Black Shoe Diaries]
• Roommate Update: The Nets are for sale (unless they aren't.) (Maybe.) [Nets Daily]

What other games?

• Mathieu Perreault scored HOW MANY goals for Winnipeg last night? [NHL.com]
  
• Simon Gagne won't play for the Bruins this season after the passing of his father. [Puck Daddy]
• Friedman's 30 Thoughts thinks about Anze Kopitar's next contract and why the Wild might want to hold onto Mike Yeo (even though they got tuned up by the Penguins 7-2 last night).
  
• Bad news for Pittsburgh: Olli Maatta's season is probably over thanks to a bum shoulder. [Pensburgh]
• Jason Spezza returned to Ottawa a little less of a scapegoat than he was when he was there. [TSN]
• Jeremy Roenick talks about all kinds of stuff with Greg Wyshynski, including a deal he (and we, or at least I) wish Garth Snow had made. [Puck Daddy]
• Down Goes Brown takes a stroll with weird All Stars of the past. [Grantland]
• Teams would be wise to pick up either Jeff Petry or Andrej Sekera. [TSN]
• Sean Monahan may be boring, but he's also becoming a good defensive player, too. [Matchsticks]
• Shane Doan sucks. [Battle of Cali]
• The Sabres retired Dominik Hasek's number last night and for many of us, The Dominator was must-see TV of our adolescence. CP on how one skinny Czech guy came to dominate the NHL | The Buffalo News has the man talking about his legacy [Audio] | Mike Babcock on coaching a legend in their golden years. [@JoeYerdon on Twitter]

And here's the ceremony. Hasek was the best. [NHL.com]