The New York Islanders will bless us with another game tonight. The Arizona Coyotes travel, for the first time, to UBS Arena at Belmont Park.
The Coyotes are, of course, bad, and probably intentionally so. Relatedly, they also, you’ll remember, made a trade with the Islanders this past summer—they acquired one Andrew Ladd and three draft picks for, as far as I can tell, nothing. I assumed at the time that the Coyotes just took on his contract to get the picks and planned to put him on LTIR as the Isles had.
But the ‘Yotes saw differently.