New York Islanders Rumors & News

New York Post "The Islanders met together at Nassau Coliseum yesterday for the last time this season and spoke optimistically of a bright future, full of playoff berths and runs at Stanley Cup titles. But now, the real questions begin. And they revolve around three key veterans — goaltender Evgeni Nabokov,..." May 18

NHL.com "Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks, Matt Moulson of the New York Islanders and Martin St. Louis of the Tampa Bay Lightning have been named the finalists for the 2013 Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, awarded "to the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly..." May 16

NHL.com "Yankee Stadium will host a doubleheader of a different sort this winter. The 2014 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series will see the three New York City metropolitan NHL teams play a pair of games at the home of the New York Yankees. The New York Rangers will face the New Jersey Devils at 12:30 p.m...." May 15

New York Post "The Islanders raised all the echoes over the last week, but that isn’t this team’s most significant achievement. By forcing the Penguins to six games before overtime elimination at the Coliseum last night despite outplaying wobbly Pittsburgh by a substantial margin, the Islanders raised..." May 12

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "This is when it would be natural to say what a good ride it was for this year's Islanders and how bright their future surely is. Except that would be disrespectful and patronizing to a team that never was interested in moral victories. The days ahead will be time for postmortems and silver..." May 12

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "he Penguins advanced in the playoffs with a 4-3 overtime win over the New York Islanders in Game 6 of their best-of-seven first-round postseason series tonight at Nassau Coliseum. The Penguins' Brooks Orpik won it on a shot from the left point at 7:49 of overtime. The Penguins will next face the..." May 12

New York Post "The Islanders will remain home for a variety of reasons, from the dormant power play to drawing the powerhouse Penguins in the opening round of the playoffs. At the top of the list was the inconsistent play of Evgeni Nabokov in net. A strength became a weakness for the Islanders in this..." May 12

New York Post "The Islanders will sink or swim with Evgeni Nabokov. Despite being pulled for the second time in the series during the third period of Game 5’s ugly 4-0 loss to the Penguins in favor of youngster Kevin Poulin, the veteran will be back between the pipes for tonight’s make-or-break Game 6 at..." May 11

NHL.com "Now in his fourth NHL season, New York Islanders center John Tavares has entered the ranks of the elite players in the League. Tavares on Friday joined Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby and Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin as finalists for the Hart Trophy, awarded annually to..." May 10

NHL.com "The National Hockey League moved closer to an agreement to send its players to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia during a meeting in Stockholm on Friday. The meeting included representatives from the NHL, National Hockey League Players' Association, International Olympic Committee,..." May 10

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Goaltender Thomas Vokoun shut out the New York Islanders, 4-0, tonight at Consol Energy Center, giving the Penguins a 3-2 lead in the first-round playoff series. Following a scoreless first period -- just the second period of the series without a goal, the other being the third period of Game 1..." May 10

Newsday "The Islanders have evened the series, and they may have chased Marc-Andre Fleury in the process. John Tavares' third-period goal, with 9:49 to play, pulled the Isles in front and they went on to a 6-4 win Tuesday at the Coliseum, helped by the Penguins goaltender who allowed six goals on 24..." May 08

New York Post "There is a realism and practicality to the Islanders’ collective attitude that is surprising in its simplicity. With all the available extra motivation lying around a team picked to go nowhere and now proving almost all of the pundits wrong, never once has this group of young and inexperienced..." May 07

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "They are a young and impressionable bunch, these New York Islanders. Most are taking their first dip into a best-of-seven acid bath that is the Stanley Cup playoffs, and if they had been convinced early that they should be content to make a token appearance and simply get a feel for hockey at..." May 06

New York Post "A very tough lesson was learned, and with it the most precious of opportunities may have been lost. The upstart Islanders outplayed the top-seeded Penguins yesterday afternoon at a raucous Nassau Coliseum, but a handful of mistakes cost the home team dearly. Behind three power-play goals, the..." May 06

New York Post "The Islanders-Penguins first-round playoff series features John Tavares and Sidney Crosby, two of the league’s elite centers, as well as a host of prolific scorers, from Matt Moulson to Evgeni Malkin and Jarome Iginla. But Kyle Okposo has been as effective as any of them, right up there with..." May 06

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "There was a time near the blossoming of this stunningly reversible Eastern Conference quarterfinal, a specific moment early in the first period of Game 2 Friday night in fact, when you actually had to wonder whether the goaltender for the New York Islanders was paying too much attention to the..." May 05

Pittsburgh Tribune Review "Chris Kunitz scored in overtime to shift a topsy-turvy series between the Penguins and New York Islanders. Kunitz scored on a power play with 11:16 left in overtime to give the Penguins a 5-4 victory in Game 3 of an Eastern Conference quarterfinal playoff series. Fans at Nassau Coliseum..." May 05

New York Post "Islanders coach Jack Capuano has said there’s no time for waiting in these playoffs, and he made that crystal clear with some significant lineup changes. For last night’s 4-3 win over the Penguins at Consol Energy Center, which tied the teams’ first-round playoff series 1-1, Capuano’s most..." May 04

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "The Penguins said from the time their first-round playoff matchup with the New York Islanders was set that they anticipated a long series. For a while, that seemed mostly like an expression of respect for their opponents. Based on the way the Penguins played in their 4-3 loss against the..." May 04

New York Post "There was laughter, and smiles, and the kind of small competitions that are less for practical purposes as for mental relief. In all of yesterday afternoon’s fun and games, there was no way to know that just 15 hours prior, on the same ice at the CONSOL Energy Center, the same group of..." May 03

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "The New York Islanders are in the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since 2007. That means there have been a lot of springs lately when the lights were off -- and the hope was missing -- at Nassau Coliseum. Had to feel just awful at the time. Probably seems like the good old days..." May 02

Yahoo! Sports ""They have to realize that if you want to be a playoff team, and you want to be a Stanley Cup contender, it's the teams that grind it out, that play with that desperation in their game to win those battles." Those were New York Islanders head coach Jack Capuano's words after his team had a second..." May 01

New York Post "It would have been a logical question to a brother-in-law, asking him what it was like to win the Stanley Cup, and about the moment he finally got to lift it. “I think I was too jealous to ask him those questions,” Matt Moulson told The Post yesterday, two days before his Islanders will begin..." April 30

NHL.com "The 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs will open Tuesday in Chicago with a matchup between the Presidents' Trophy-winning Chicago Blackhawks and the Minnesota Wild, who were the last team to clinch a playoff berth. The NHL released the playoff schedule Sunday night and it includes three Game 1s on..." April 29

New York Post "With the Senators’ 4-2 win over the Bruins last night in Boston, the Islanders finished as the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference, giving them a spot opposite the Penguins in the first round of the NHL playoffs. The Penguins, who finished on top in the East with 72 points, won eight of their..." April 29

New York Post "As each minute ticked away last night at the First Niagara Center, the Islanders’ future was looking more and more black and gold. Yet, the frightening Penguins team that dons those colors is not a guaranteed matchup now for the upstart Islanders, who clawed their way back from some sloppy play..." April 28

New York Post "As each minute ticked away last night at the First Niagara Center, the Islanders’ future was looking more and more black and gold. Yet, the frightening Penguins team that dons those colors is not a guaranteed matchup now for the upstart Islanders, who clawed their way back from some sloppy play..." April 27

Philly.com "If veteran Danny Briere played his last home game in a Flyers uniform Thursday night, he made a theatrical exit, scoring his first goal in 20 games in his team's 2-1 victory over the New York Islanders. At the same time, rookie defenseman Oliver Lauridsen was, in a sense, making an entrance to..." April 26

New York Post "There is no question that Islanders coach Jack Capuano is biased in this situation. But his words should carry some weight, since he has had a better seat than anyone as John Tavares spent this season carrying his team to its first playoff berth in six years – and in doing so, has put himself..." April 25

NHL.com "The team holding the top pick in the 2013 NHL Draft will need to consider one important question prior to stepping to the podium to announce its selection on June 30 at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. What do we need right now? Is it a poised and polished minute-munching, two-way..." April 24

Newsday "This one won't go in the Islanders' time capsule. But this Islanders team has done everything asked of it the past month, so they did just enough to earn the point they needed to clinch their first playoff berth since 2007. The 4-3 shootout loss Tuesday night to the Hurricanes was an..." April 24

NHL.com "In celebration of Earth Day, NHL Green has teamed up with Sterling Planet, the United States' leading retail provider of environmental assets for corporate, utility and government clients, to attempt to mitigate the environmental impact of the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs. For the second..." April 22

Islanders Point Blank "The New York Islanders kept on rolling tonight, running up their hot streak to 10-1-2 in their last 13 games with a 5-3 win in Toronto. That streak dates back to just after a 4-2 loss to Pittsburgh at the Coliseum on March 22nd, darn near a month ago. They’ve lost one in regulation since then and..." April 19

New York Daily News "The Bronx is freezing. The NHL is planning an outdoor Stadium Series for next season headlined by two Rangers games at Yankee Stadium, one against the New Jersey Devils on Jan. 26 and another against the Islanders on Jan. 29, the Daily News has confirmed. TSN first reported the planned..." April 17

ESPN.com "The NHL is in the final planning stages of its much-anticipated series of outdoor stadium games next season with six outdoor contests set to take place in football and baseball stadiums across North America, sources familiar with the plan confirmed to ESPN.com Tuesday. The series will start..." April 17

Newsday "They are no longer playing the part of the spoiler, so the Islanders have to be on guard for games like last night, when the Panthers tried to do what the Isles have been forced to for several seasons: Ruin another team's chances of making the postseason. The Islanders were up to the challenge..." April 17

Pro Hockey Talk "The New York Islanders will get some defensive reinforcements down the stretch. That was the word out of Long Island on Monday as head coach Jack Capuano said injured defenseman Brian Strait is “close” to returning to action. Strait, 25, was put on injured reserve in mid-February after..." April 15

New York Daily News "Dave Maloney wore the ‘C’ as the youngest captain in Rangers history when they beat the Islanders in six games to advance to the 1979 Stanley Cup Finals. He bled Blue the next four seasons when the Isles won four straight Cups, eliminating Maloney’s Rangers in three of the four years they hoisted..." April 12

NHL.com "The National Hockey League Players' Association and the National Hockey League today announced a historic partnership with the You Can Play Project that formalizes and advances their long-standing commitment to make the NHL the most inclusive professional sports league in the world. "The NHL..." April 12

TSN.ca "The National Hockey League's meeting with officials from the International Olympic Committee and International Ice Hockey Federation wrapped up in New York City Friday with more work needed to be done. "We had a good working session and were able to discuss all of the issues involved in the..." April 12

Newsday "The Islanders may yet return here in a few weeks to face the Bruins in the playoffs. They may have given the big, bad boys from Boston something to think about Thursday night. . Josh Bailey scored both goals and the Islanders finished off another tight game in strong fashion, taking a 2-1..." April 12

New York Post "The Islanders officially announced Tuesday what has long been assumed a given, that they will play a preseason game next season at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, their future home. The Islanders will take on the Devils on Sept. 21, at 7 p.m., and it will be the first NHL game ever played in..." April 10

Newsday "It was not the best 40 minutes' worth of Islanders work Tuesday night at the Coliseum. But they carried a lead into the third period against the Flyers, who hadn't lost on Long Island since April 2010. In that third period the Islanders showed why they are in the thick of the Eastern..." April 10

Bergen Record "At least one of the three local teams has qualified for the NHL playoffs in every season since the Colorado Rockies moved to New Jersey for 1982-83. But only three times since then, in 1990, 1994 and 2007, have the Devils, Rangers and Islanders reached the postseason together. Which is why,..." April 09

CSN Philly "If things look and sound familiar this Monday for the Flyers, well, that’s because they are familiar. Peter Laviolette’s club went into the weekend ranked 11th, just two points out of the eighth and final playoff seed in the Eastern Conference. The Flyers emerged all the worse for it,..." April 08

New York Post "Mike Green scored his fifth goal in four games, Braden Holtby made 35 saves and then was perfect in the shootout, and the Capitals’ long, slow comeback toward a playoff spot took another big step last night with a 2-1 shootout win over the Islanders. Islanders goaltender Evgeni Nabokov was..." April 05