Islanders, NHL Playoffs, and Hammer Time With Trenton

The Islanders story has a little bit of everything here, which is usually how this league likes to do its mischief. There is playoff chatter in the mix, and there is also a nod to Trenton, so this is not one of those tidy, one-note updates. The broader NHL picture keeps shifting, and the kind of details buried in these reports often matter more than the loud stuff on the surface.