Dedicated to Jacob Trouba.
Mike and Dan empty their tanks on the Islanders free agency signings, the draft, the Rangers imploding and The Wedding of the Century.
It’s been a busy few days on Long Island, and they’ve been good for the Islanders. Despite the craziness of free agency day, they signed speedy winger Anthony Duclair and brought back defenseman Mike Reilly on two very reasonable deals. Before that, they had talented prospect Cole Eiserman fall into their lap at the draft, and took a few other notable names as well in later rounds.
And across the Atlantic Ocean, the players and some former teammates shirtlessly partied the night away with The Chainsmokers at the Pulock wedding in beautiful Italy.
Meanwhile, other teams are making regrettable mistakes or deluding themselves, the Rangers are publicly botching the trade of their captain, TSN and ESPN are insulting their audiences and prospect writers are shoveling more nonsense than usual.
We have a lot to get to in this season finale, but most of all we thank you for hanging with us throughout another season and we hope we made it a little more fun for you. We’ll be back in October (unless there’s news to discuss).
REFERENCES
- ESPN and others had the Islanders as one of the Draft’s winners. Meaningless but a nice bit of confirmation.
- Brooksy making things very, very uncomfortable for Mr. and Dr. Trouba.
- Videos from the gorgeous Pulock wedding are everywhere on social media, which means Lou has definitely seen them (and will have some questions…).
- This dude is gonna fit right in with this crew:
Anthony Duclair is ready to be clean shaven in his Lou Lamoriello era @aduclair10 #Isles pic.twitter.com/Z2RuWRBYk5
— Isles Territory (@IslesTerritory) July 2, 2024
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