Islanders News: Celebrating Gordie; Cap Hit for Draft Pick swap; Hidden Dynasty

Remembering Gordie Howe

You could spend your entire weekend reading remembrances about the late and beyond great Gordie Howe. Here's a small sampler platter that scratches the surface of the man's huge hockey legacy.

• A timeline of his incredible career. [NHL.com]
• Kyle from Winging It In Motown offers his eulogy.
• Of all the official statements issued, Steve Yzerman's might have been the most heartfelt. [WIIM]
• AUDIO: Butch Goring talks to WOR's Pete McCarthy about growing up a Howe fan and then playing against him. And more Islanders condolences can be read at our post from yesterday. I added a couple more, including a cute picture of Howe and a teen-aged John Tavares.
  
• Greatest Hockey Legends has nine great Gordie Howe stories, like his disastrous tryout with the Rangers.
• Down Goes Brown on what made Howe the quintessential hockey player. [The Guardian]
• Of course, when it comes to old hockey players, George Vecsey of the New York Times comes bearing laurels.
• At Sports on Earth, Joe Delessio writes about Howe's grace and brutality.
• The Whalers retired Howe's No. 9 years ago, and the Hurricanes have quietly never un-retired it out of respect. [N&O]
  

Mostly hockey links

• Jean-Francois Berube gets a report card that is appropriately full of very suspicious optimism. [LHH]
• If Matt Martin walks, who would make a good replacement signing? [TSS]
• The annual transferring of Marc Savard's cap hit comes to New Jersey, where the Devils gave up two AHLers to get Savard and a 2018 second round pick. [AATJ]
• The Allen Americans have won their fourth straight championship - their second straight ECHL title following two consecutive CHL titles - and are a sports dynasty no one is talking about. [Star Local]
  
• Not Hockey: The ESL One eSports event at Barclays Center has added a Street Fighter V tournament, called the "Brooklyn Beatdown." Hadouken!