Islanders News: Hickey's sicky; Dal Colle demoted; Barclays' bus bonanza

Islanders clicks

• Thomas Hickey will be out a month with an upper body injury, and replacement options include a noob and a nightmare. [LHH | Newsday | NY Post | Mini Hickey Skinny from Eric Hornick]
• Michael Dal Colle and Anthony Beauvillier will have to wait until next year to make the leap from Juniors to the NHL. [LHH]
• The Isles Buzz podcast talks abut those topics and more in their latest installment.
• Sportsnet previews the Islanders and likes what they see.
• Brian Compton handles the preview duties for NHL.com and looks at the importance of special teams for them. Very interesting quotes in both stories.
• In their first visit to Barclays Center, the Capitals couldn't stop raving about... the bus elevator [Russian Machine] and the regulation NBA-sized shower heads [WaPo]
• Vets and new faces gathered at Sound Tigers camp and Michael Fornabaio reports the early lines and pairings.
• Just click this.

Other stuff

• NBCSN's #HockeyvilleUSA game was a fun Slap Shot appreciation party. For the Penguins anyway, they beat the Lighting 4-2. [SBN]
• The Board of Governors heard expansion proposals from Las Vegas and Quebec but will drag this whole process out a little longer. [ESPN]
• That pesky Canadian economy won't keep Quebec from getting and keeping an NHL team (unlike the last one they had). [Sportsnet | TSN.ca]
• NWHL players make actual money from the sales of their jerseys. How much, exactly? Cup of Chowder investigates.
• The league has also posted all of its players salary info. WHAT A NOVEL IDEA IMAGINE THAT.
• Zoe's Victory Press has launched and deserves your support. Her first piece is an interview with author Beth Boyle Machlan about Don DeLillo's 1980 hockey novel Amazons. [VictoryPress.org]

Noted video game hater Anders Lee looks pretty comfortable with that controller in his hands:

EA Sports NHL 16 shoot this afternoon with @mattymarts17 @leeberr09 @thomas_hickey14 and Cal Clutterbuck pic.twitter.com/u1MXHJw1aP

— AnnRina420 (@AnnRina420) September 29, 2015