EDMONTON, Alberta — Doug Weight and Jason Chimera have made many trips back through this city before. But Tuesday’s game here against the Oilers held some extra significance for both the Islanders coach and its oldest player.
Weight spent nine seasons with the Oilers, the last two as captain and Tuesday was his first game as a head coach in the city where he became an elite NHL player. Chimera played his first three NHL seasons in his hometown and Tuesday was his first back as an Islander and first in the spanking-new Rogers Place.
And Chimera recalled his first NHL game, on Dec.