Islanders News: Fourth line value, Sound Tiger Bulldog, something about the Cup final

The Stanley Cup final carries on with Game 3 tonight.

Islanders-Related Ingredients

• How much is the "best fourth line in hockey" worth (even if it's basically a third line)? The answer is undefined, but certainly less than what it's currently paid after the Casey Cizikas contract. [Hockey Graphs]
• We know you can't get enough Top 25 Under 25. Yesterday's entry starts the goalie train. [LHH]
• The Sound Tigers scored Yale boy Ryan Obuchowski. [Soundin' Off | Yale news]
• Ted Nolan and his sons visited a First Nation community to deliver a little dose of inspiration. [CBC]
  

Not NYI

• With Game 3 approaching on San Jose ice, Marc-Edouard Vlasic totally wants him some Sidney Crosby matchup. [Sportsnet]
• Joe Thornton is a key if the Sharks are to turn it around. [MSG]
• And Pete DeBoer needs to embrace change. [Fear the Fin]
• A late but still cool Cup final preview from Ryan Whitney and Mike Rupp. [Players Tribune]
• At the scouting combine, some teams are chill during player interviews, some give personality tests, and nobody really needs to know English. [THN]
• Brent Burns is the most challenging NHLer this tailor tailors. [SI]
• Dean Lombardi constructed the sub-optimal U.S. World Cup roster with all kinds of team-building voodoo that is totally the kind of thing Scott Burnside would romanticize. [ESPN]
• Alex Steen had successful surgery for a dislocated shoulder. Hockey players, man. [Kukla's]
• Talk of P.K. Subban trade rumors (not at all likely), Steven Stamkos re-signing (they still want to), and Milan Lucic heading north. [ESPN | TSN Insider Trading video]
• What would a Rick Nash trade fetch (other than more dramatic columns from Larry Brooks I mean)? [Blueshirt Banter]
• More on Kirk Muller in Montreal: The hiring could really help. [HEOTP] Both parties were eager to make it happen. [HEOTP] P.S. FKM
• Hey Quebec: Your expansion chances are slim. Blame the same dollar that lost you an NHL team in the first place. [TSN]
• An add-on to yesterday's 1991 expansion draft trivia: You probably know Jeff Hackett was taken...did you know Jack Capuano was exposed? [each team's exposed list at Historical Hockey]
• Meanwhile, Carolina's getting a bad rap with the Karmanos family drama, but it's the fastest growing market in the NHL. [Canes Country]
• NOT HOCKEY, but the fun of sports (and analytics): On the culture of counting dots, and the areas of sport that doesn't capture. [Between the Lines]