New York Islanders Travis Hamonic comes home for a New Years Eve game against Patrik Laine and the Winnipeg Jets! What a story! WRONG! It’s day one of the post-Halak era for the Islanders.
Jaroslav Halak was waived just 24 hours ago, and is now reporting to Bridgeport after not a single one of the other 29 teams in the league picked him up. With a $4.5 million cap hit and a 3.23 GAA and .906 SV% in 21 games played this season who can blame them?
So now the Islanders crease indisputably belongs to Thomas Greiss.