Islanders, Matt Martin Agree To 4-Year Deal
The New York Islanders and left winger Matt Martin agreed to a four-year contract Saturday night.
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The New York Islanders and left winger Matt Martin agreed to a four-year contract Saturday night.
The clock struck midnight, and the NHL turned into another sports league closed for business.
With only two days left to avoid another damaging NHL lockout, players and owners huddled in separate circles to discuss what now seems inevitable.
According to an NHL source, Islanders owner Charles Wang will use the new developer aspects in Nassau County to put more pressure on the Barclays Center for a good deal. Things are starting to happen.
Let's fast-forward from my mid-80s, NHL-crazed days at Binghamton: The NHL might be canceling its season for a second time in less than ten years. And hardly anyone cares.
The drop of the puck isn't happening anytime soon. A lengthy NHL lockout appears to be on the horizon. The owners and NHLPA aren't just far apart, now they're firing shots at one another.
Top NHL stars are making plans in the event of a lockout. A cancellation of the 2012-13 NHL season would ruin many great storylines.
Eventually, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman will want hockey players to return to the ice. Right now it seems like he wants another pound of flesh from them more than he wants labor peace.
The Islanders have locked down first-round draft pick Griffin Reinhart, signing the defenseman to a three-year, entry-level contract Thursday.
Brooklyn Nets minority owner and Barclays Center developer Bruce Ratner told the New York Daily News that he wants to bring the New York Islanders to Brooklyn and have them play in the Barclays Center.
The NHL and the NHL Players' Association resumed labor talks at the league offices in New York on Wednesday.
If you find positives in Nassau County's new plan to renovate the area where the Islanders currently play, I have an old and dilapidated coliseum to sell you. This latest attempt to keep the NHL where it currently resides is pie in the sky.
After just one day of the NHL's annual spending spree, the natural impulse for Islanders fans is to roll their eyes and mutter to their friends that, as usual, there's nothing to see here. Well, they'd be wrong.
The Islanders signed two free agents on Sunday, forward Brad Boyes and defenseman Matt Carkner.
While Sunday marks the station's 25th anniversary, Friday on the FAN was must-listen-to radio.
