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It's Friday and it's a week from the draft and lots of people figure the Isles will trade their 1st-rounder but for whom?
Islanders Reads
- Jiggs McDonald talked about the Islanders' first season in Brooklyn, the free agents, and even Jean-Francois Berube. [THW]
- Rick Vaive says the Leafs shouldn't target Steven Stamkos now, they should target John Tavares in 2018 (and also adds more amplification to the "always serious" Tavares experience). [Sportsnet]
- We doubt he'll be there at #19, but in the SB Nation mock draft we selected Jake Bean. Here's why. [LHH]
- All of the clips of Islanders doing cool stuff in the community. [Isles]
- Before the Isles add some more youngsters at the draft, we are doing this Top 25 Under 25 countdown thing. Ilya Sorokin comes in at #9. [LHH]
Buddies to the end:
Elsewhere
- Arizona acquired the negotiating rights to Alex Goligoski for a 5th-round pick. (So there's your starting price if someone asks for Okposo's rights tomorrow.) [Defending Big D]
- Cam Ward signed a two-year extension(!). [Canes Country]
- Sven Baertschi did too (Canucks). [TSS]
- And Dmitri Jaskin (Blues) makes it three. [STLtoday]
- More interestingly, Ken Hitchcock and Mike Yeo discuss kind of not liking each other and then hitting it off enough to agree to a coach-in-waiting arrangement. [STLtoday]
- The Flyers are gonna buy out R.J. Umberger. That's expected. [Broad Street Hockey]
- The Leafs are buying out Jared Cowen. That's even more expected. [PPP]
- The Penguins are kind of vague about the future of Marc-Andre Fleury. [NHL]
- Suddenly Colorado is saying it won't trade Tyson Barrie. [NHL]
- The reasons Quebec won't be awarded an expansion team (yet) have to do with the lack of clear corporate support. Oh, and the dollar. Nobody wants to prop them up. [Sportsnet]
- Assessing individual players' impact on shorthanded shot suppression. [WIIM]
- After a restful and healing season away, Ilya Bryzgalov is focused and driven to get back into an NHL crease. [NHLPA]
- Mars needs women and Rutgers needs hockey. [On the Banks]
- Streets of Philadelhia? [BSH]
- Anaheim Calling has a new manager. (Not Randy Carlyle, he's busy.) [Anaheim Calling]
Moment of Zen
#TBT to '94 glued to the OJ Simpson Bronco chase on Gretzky's rooftop patio with Wayne & @Burkie2020 So surreal. pic.twitter.com/f9tYxejcij
— Christine Simpson (@SNChrisSimpson) June 16, 2016