MONTREAL — What, you thought two weeks without Islanders hockey meant we’d take a break here?

No rest for the newsletter, but we are going to take the chance to zoom out a bit and riff on a handful of topics. Let’s start by correcting some social media narratives.

The conversation surrounding Noah Dobson reminds me of Nazem Kadri a couple summers ago.

This happens sometimes with the Islanders, where the team keeps such a tight lid on information that it’s easy for a rumor from a fan account to become accepted as fact on social media. In summer 2022, I remember going on a show and being asked what I thought of the Kadri deal, the implication being that the Islanders already had signed him.