Islanders Left Out As Larkin’s Trade List Takes Shape

Dylan Larkin’s situation is already drawing the kind of quiet front-office chatter that usually means someone is doing math behind closed doors. The latest wrinkle is that the Islanders are not on his three-team trade list, which immediately narrows the board and tells you where leverage is and is not. In this league, no-trade paperwork is never just paperwork, because one name off the list can change how an entire trade conversation breathes.