Islanders & NHL Playoff News: Hammer time (and Trenton too)

It’s Memorial Day weekend in the United States, the impetus for barbecue and such. But the playoffs march on with Carolina-Montreal Game 2 Saturday and Colorado-Vegas Game 3 Sunday…

Islanders News

Tracking Danny Nelson at the Worlds for Team USA. [THN]

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• In a summer of affiliation shuffles, the Isles ECHL affiliate will now be in Trenton. [Isles]

• Officially now, the Islanders announced that their relocated AHL affiliate in Hamilton shall be named the Hammers. [Isles] At this time, a friend shall lose a friend’s hammer…:

Elsewhere

• The (consecutive) long layoffs are a thing for the Avalanche and Hurricanes. Ex-NHLer Craig Johnson discusses. [NHL]

• A dozen years since he and the Canucks parted, Mike Gillis ‘wasn’t the right fit’ for the Leafs, or vice versa. [Sportsnet]

• The Knights’ ruthlessness in management may be the new model for the NHL. [Sportsnet]