We’ve seen the last of Nikolay Kulemin in an Islanders uniform. He’s going home to Russia to play in the KHL and there’s not a damn thing you or I can do about that. Not a damn thing, I say. We all need to accept that and deal with it in our own way.
I’m going to deal with it by looking back at a couple of memorable plays from Kulemin’s brief Islanders tenure.
On July 2, 2014, the Islanders signed Kulemin and his good friend Mikhail Grabovski to similar four-year contracts in free agency ($16.