Islanders News: Reach out and touch someone; Bailey hits half a thousand; Treacherous trachea

Enjoy your Sunday.

Islanders links

• Recaps of Tavares' tide-turner: LHH | Newsday | NHL.com | NYI Skinny | Raw Charge
• Cal Clutterbuck will tell his grandkids that this goal was exactly what he wanted to do in this situation. [LHH]
• Ryan Strome's stay in Bridgeport was made easier by his teammates who reached out to him. Suck on that, Nino. [Newsday]
• It's hard to believe, but Josh Bailey will log his 500th game with the Islanders. That's also 500 games of being criticized, demonized and fantasy traded by fans. Sounds like a lot of work. [Islanders]
• Today in Travis Hamonic: Trading Tyler Myers makes sense for the Jets because he is appreciably worse than Hamonic. For the Islanders: enh, who cares? Includes video of other options. [Sportsnet]
• Joe Whitney's hat trick helped the Sound Tigers beat Hartford. Check out those retro (early 1990's) uniforms. [CT Post | Soundin' Off]
• Make it 11 wins in a row for the Missouri Mavericks. Carter Verhaege had quite a game against Indy.
• Parker Wotherspoon scored the game-winner for Tri-City in their victory over Spokane. [Tri-City Herald]

Around the hockey world

• Defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo suffered a "dented trachea" in Buffalo's win over Nashville, which is something only Carlo Colaiacovo, the NHL's preeminent poor bastard, could achieve. [Puck Daddy]
• Old and new collide as former NHLer Jim Kyte calls out Montreal's Brendan Gallagher  for being a punk and Gallagher calls Kyte's kettle black. [@Pat_Iversen]
• The Oilers have assigned Griffin Reinhart to Bakersfield to activate Justin Schultz off the IR. [Edm. Jour]
• Brandon Dubinsky will miss one whole game for trying to brake Sidney Crosby's neck. That'll learn 'im. [DOPS]
• When French Canadian coaches attack each other, we all win. [NY Daily News]
• Rough night for ref Dan O'Halloran in Nashville. Someone must have had his mind on honky tonkin'. [SBN]

Movember is always a big deal for the Islanders, who are doing their part to promote men's health. [Long Island Report]