Also: The injured trio is progressing!
Hey gang, short and late but fresh thread here for tonight’s game vs. the Blackhawks, the first of an asterisk’d home-and-home with Chicago.
Leave First Islanders Goal picks here.
- Previewing tonight: The Blackhawks are bad, so it will be extra painful when they sweep the Isles. Scott Mayfield should be back but Anders Lee (also illness) is a game-time decision. [Isles]
- Mat Barzal now joins Anthony Duclair and Adam Pelech in resuming skating. [Isles]
- And those health updates equal a light at the end of the tunnel. [THN | Post]
- Three takeaways from December so far, but really one: They need those guys back. [Newsday]
- Heh, remember when Darren Dreger “sources” had Ilya Sorokin being traded to the Hawks? Dreger later blamed Sorokin’s teammates and “others in Moscow.” [THN]
Elsewhere
There were only two games in the NHL last night, but one of them had the sad-sack Rangers getting a much-needed win over the sadder-sack Sabres.