Islanders News: Revisiting history, plotting next season

Photo by Denis Brodeur/NHLI via Getty Images When I heard about the trades, I got my jersey out, put my roller skates on, and went to the basement to play as Pierre Turgeon.Nothing new from the Islanders, though the NHL continues to try to anticipate and plan how it’s going to pull off next season. Regardless, some fun “this day in history” pieces from the weekend, including the day the always-strapped franchise cast two key pieces away, over money.

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A recent “this day in history”: When the Islanders named Patrick Flatley captain in 1991. They needed a new one, because they’d just traded Brent Sutter (and Pat LaFontaine...it was a rough October). Thankfully, Bill Torrey got good…