Islanders News: More Carp lad, more Ladd fish

Is it Friday? It’s Friday.

Islanders Material

• Andrew Ladd took a turn with NHL Tonight to talk about things like giant fish and next season. [NHL video]
• Seeing Clavin de Haan re-signed makes Stan Fischler happy, and reminds him of the long road from draft day 2009. [MSG]
• Ex-Islanders and ex-many-team NHLer Brent Sopel holds a clinic for dyslexic children. [NHL]
• New Isles assistant coach Kelly Buchberger was among the crew reminiscing at a Glen Sather golf tournament that raised $425,000 for the ‘90s-era Oilers’ small-market money problems charity. [RM Outlook]
• Bridgeport police will play a scholarship fundraiser to benefit an officer’s daughter who lost her mom. Sound Tigers coach Brent Thompson will coach the police. [CT Post]
• The Bruins hope adding longtime Islanders goalie coach Mike Dunham as goalie development coach will help things. [CBS Boston]

Elsewhere

Uh-oh, don’t tell the Penguins fans but Vegas’s Vadim Shipachev expects to wear #87...

• Jack Eichel and the Sabres appear headed toward an eight-year deal. The conclusion of which will surely lead everyone to wonder whether he wants to stay in Buffalo. [Die by the Blade]
• Brutal: Promising young Coyotes blueliner Jakob Chychrun is out with knee surgery. [FFH]
• Longtime Senator and Predator Mike Fisher retires after 17 seasons, thanks Nashville. [NHL | Tennesseean]
• Flames GM Brad Treliving hired his old boss from the Coyotes, Don Maloney. [Flames]
• Olympic drug watchdog and IOC member Dick Pound thinks the NHL is wrong to skip the 2018 Olympics. [Sportsnet]