Islanders News: Detroit's lions down New York's giants; Bailey runs the option; Oilers media playbook leaks

Enjoy the Super Bowl everyone. Hope either your team tastes victory or you taste the big money from your office pool or box board.

Islanders news

• Recaps of some Motor City muck: LHH | Newsday | Islanders | NHL.com | WInging it in Motown
• Jaroslav Halak's not sweating all those puck playing bloopers he's had lately and neither are his teammates. [Newsday]
• Strait out, Visnovsky in. [Newsday]
• Corsi n' stuff from that weird game. [LHH]
• Josh Bailey talks about his switch from center to winger. [Windsor Star]
• The Sound Tigers fell behind, mounted a comeback, but ultimately lost to Portland. [CT Post | Post-Gamer]
• And the Islanders assigned Lukas Sutter to Bridgeport from Stockton. [BST]
• Are you an Islanders fan in the Albany area/Capital District? How about a meet-up? [Fanpost by Dougtone]

Audibles

• Carey Price and Max Pacioretty carve out a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery specific place in NHL history. [EOTP]
• Henrik Lundqvist might want to avoid solid foods for today after getting pegged in the neck by a puck last night. [SB Nation]
• Former Oilers coach Dallas Eakins was on TSN's analytics podcast where he shared some of his experiences, including on shocking/not-shocking episode dating back to Edmonton's hiring of Tyler Dellow.
• In the cutthroat world of minor hockey, your friend is also your enemy. [The Hockey News]
• The Beanpot Tournament starts tomorrow. [SBN College Hockey]
• I don't think we had this, but Bob McKenzie's midterm draft rankings came out last week. His thoughts are always worth a read. [TSN.ca]
• Get your stick out of my face, punk. [SB Nation]
• Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to be a Zamboni driver, son. [KFGO]