The New York Islanders continue their week of games against teams that {whispers} kind of stink, when the Detroit Red Wings come to town Wednesday night.
Already this week, the Islanders lost a sleeper to the zombie Flyers in Philadelphia and then slept through two more periods at home before shutting out the laugh-rack Senators.
Tonight more points are on the table with a visit by the Red Wings, who didn’t even have the common decency to bring Nick Leddy with them. Instead, Leddy is in St. Louis — where the Islanders will visit April 9 on the back end of a tough traveling back-to-back — where he fills a hole on LD just like the Islanders have had, thanks to the trade of.