Doug Weight was late to his son's hockey practice two days ago as he worked at the Islanders offices trying to pin things down should the lock-out come to pass.
This is the first move in the NY Islanders plans for the newest work stoppage. Nineteen players, including Nino Niederreiter, have been assigned to Bridgeport. Some may surprise you, okay, maybe not:
Marc Cantin, Casey Cizikas, Jason Clark, Calvin de Haan, Brandon Defazio, Matt Donovan, Mike Halmo, Travis Hamonic, Kirill Kabanov, Jon Landry, Brock Nelson, Aaron Ness, Nino Niederreiter, Anders Nilsson, John Persson, Kevin Poulin, Blair Riley, Johan Sundstrom and David Ullstrom.
Two players were assigned to their junior clubs; Ryan Strome and Griffin Reinhart.
All I can say about this is --
LET'S GO GET SOME SOUND TIGER TICKETS!!!
1:39 pm: Here are the names the NY Islanders have placed on Waivers today thanks to TSN Bob McKenzie:
New York Islanders: Sean Backman, Colin McDonald, Nathan McIver, Matt Watkins, Ty Wishart
Remember, Sean Backman is Matt Moulson's brother-in-law.