Matt Martin getting one last Islanders shot with training camp tryout
NY Post
Matt Martin’s Islanders career might not be over quite yet.
The Islanders are bringing Martin to training camp on a PTO, Lou Lamoriello said Friday, giving him the chance to make the team and continue a decorated career with the team.
Cal Clutterbuck, who played alongside Martin on the Identity Line and also became a free agent this summer, is not signing a PTO.
Martin faces an uphill battle to make the roster, as the Islanders already have 23 players under contract and can likely only roster 22 due to the salary cap.
Lamoriello himself acknowledged the unlikelihood of him playing with the Isles this season in a conversation with The Post last month, saying it probably would not happen.
Still, if Martin puts together a strong camp, it would create a tough decision for the team brass, which holds him in high regard.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.