Some agents raved about the collegial tone of ... Which ultimately might be wrapped in an 18-game season.

Making that ground up over 18 games is unlikely, to say the least. The Islanders certainly need some stumbling from the other contenders, though the Rangers have helped lately with an 0-2-2 slide ...

It’s also created some scheduling difficulties for a conference that now ... “Playing 20 games post-Christmas makes (having bye weeks) impossible to do, so we’re going to try 18 games, and we’re going ...