Just like Rocky Balboa after he finally beat Apollo Creed for the championship, when you win, everybody wants a piece of you. So following a pretty huge TKO of their regional rival, the Islanders were popular guys for a couple of the NHL’s media arms.
In both, the selected players talked about the difference in playing under Doug Weight instead of Jack Capuano, and came back to the same word: “antidisestablishmentarianism.” No, I’m kidding.
The word was, “confidence.”
Right after Thursday’s 4-2 win over the Rangers in which he scored twice, Andrew Ladd talked to NHL Tonight’s GLADOS-style arena cam about the team’s run and the spark (six goals, two assists in 11 games) that he’s experienced in particular under Weight.