Category: puck

Call the Islanders’ top line The Money Line. Or, really, the Money to Be Made Line. Anders Lee, Brock Nelson and Jordan Eberle are all set to be unrestricted free agents on July 1, assuming team president Lou Lamoriello doesn’t get any deals done before then. And though Lamoriello was effusive in his praise of […]

Brett Howden, who has missed the past 14 games since sustaining a sprained MCL during the first period of the Blueshirts’ Jan. 29 match against the Flyers, seems ready to rejoin the lineup. But where and at the expense of whom are decisions David Quinn must make if the 20-year-old freshman (21 at the end […]

Players aren’t supposed to lose lineup spots because of injury, but sometimes that’s just the way it goes. At least, that’s what has happened with Islanders defenseman Thomas Hickey, who went from a top-four stalwart to now having to battle to get back in after missing 10 weeks following a concussion suffered on Dec. 17. […]

BOSTON — The Devils gave the surging Bruins a fight, but it wasn’t enough. Brad Marchand scored a power-play goal early in the opening period and Tuukka Rask made it stand up with 20 saves for his third shutout of the season, lifting the surging Boston Bruins to a 1-0 victory over the New Jersey […]

The Islanders had gone nearly three months without losing successive games in regulation, and more than six weeks owning at least a share of first place in the suddenly tightening Metropolitan Division. Both of those impressive, if wholly unexpected, accomplishments fell by the wayside in Sunday’s ugly 4-1 loss to the Flyers at the Coliseum. […]

The Rangers have lost 2,795 games throughout their 92-season history, and in many, many different ways, but never had they lost one on Rule 25.4. Until Sunday afternoon, that is, when Alex Ovechkin was awarded a decisive shootout goal to give the Caps a 3-2 victory at the Garden when Alex Georgiev threw his stick […]

Same number 72 on the back of his jersey. Same name, too. But perhaps a different player? Coach David Quinn thinks so. And so to a certain extent, so does Filip Chytil himself. “It seems in the week he’s been out, it’s been a different Filip Chytil,” Quinn said after reinserting the winger into the […]

It sure sounded nice when Lou Lamoriello came out and said how much he believes in this Islanders group, and how, as team president, not making any moves before the Feb. 25 trade deadline was his vote of confidence. Oh, the players ate it up, reveling in their first-place standing and the slack-jawed reactions of […]

Robin Lehner has been a revelation on the ice, helping to pen a compelling tale for himself and the Islanders. But Lehner was pulled from the net for the first time this season after allowing three goals on 13 shots by the 3:18 mark of the second period in Sunday’s 4-1 loss to the Flyers […]

Brendan Smith has great memories of the time he spent as a Red Wing with the legendary Ted Lindsay, the eight-time, first-team NHL All-Star, four-time Cup winner and father of the NHLPA who died Monday in his Michigan home at the age of 93. “A magnificent man,” said Smith, who spent the first seven years […]