The New York Islanders continue a nine-game road trip tonight by meeting the team who hired the coach everyone (or everyone’s fans) really wanted.
Claude Julien, late of the Boston Bruins, now in a return for the Montreal Canadiens, had his pick of options. Reporting was the Isles didn’t make contact with him when he became available after they’d named Doug Weight their interim head coach.
But that won’t keep us from playing “what if?” tonight, next month, and for the rest of eternity, which is the length of Islanders fans’ memories.