The Islanders' second-half marathon resumes tonight in Washington. Leave your FIG picks for tonight here.
Islanders Reads
- A Brett Yormark interview with SI revealed what many speculated: There will be no "capital improvement" changes to the obstructed seat sections at Barclays. But Dan's column about this and the rest of the interview is frankly outstanding. [LHH]
- Here's the full interview with Yormark (plus video with players, execs). [SI]
- The SNY podcast featured Craig Custance of ESPN plus lots of yelling and sturm und drang over the J-F Berube start. [SoundCloud]
- Berube is part of the team and the goalie picture, FYI. [Newsday]
- A look at the Mavs and more in the Bridgeport Report [BST]
- Spend a night (okay, 30 minutes) with the fourth line! [Lifestyle Authentic]
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Thomas Vanek was just like a lot of fans: He didn't want to go to Brooklyn. [Twin Cities]
Beyond the Isle and the Capital
- The Capitals are coming off a 5-2 loss to Florida. [Japers' Rink]
- Do NHL GMs want a play-in game for the final playoff spot, or an extra best-of-three wild card series, or maybe just turn the entire season into a best-of-82 series and charge playoff prices all year long? [TSN]
- The NHL suspended Dennis Wideman 20 games (Colin Campbell overseeing the case!) and the NHLPA appealed faster than you can say, "question my immediate assumptions." [Puck Daddy]
- The top 11 candidates to be dealt by the trade deadline. [USA Today]
- Perhaps you found the new NHL website...challenging. That's nothing compared to the botched first night of NHL.tv. [Puck Daddy]
- Time for Malcolm Subban to get another chance in Boston? [SCOC]
- Muammar Gaddafi had a German ice hockey team. [Guardian]
- A stats look at one-timers. [NHL Special Teams]
- High schooler scores OT winner on the day his father died. [Puck Daddy]
- The many hidden talents of NHL enforcers. [Down Goes Brown at THN]
- The Leafs enjoyed watching John Scott and think the mid-season exhibition could use more journeymen. [Sportsnet]
- MSG's Shannon Hogan discusses how Scott's Players Tribune article helped change her mind on the matter. [MSG]