The Islanders got a day off in Western Canada and good for them.
Islanders Reading
- Arthur Staple on how the Isles have improved their defensive work with a strategic change, they’re just not seeing results yet (too little, too late), and Thomas Hickey: “Most of the year it’s been more man on man, though we didn’t call it that. It was more like what Jersey does – you get a guy and basically tackle him in the D zone. Now it’s more of a zone, you have an area on the ice you have to take care of and when it goes back to their D, the center plays soft like we used to do – where you’d see Frans (Nielsen) swallow up a wrist shot and get moving out of our end.