Snapshots: Moses, Couture, Nassau

In an odd bit of news, the Rochester Americans announced that minor league forward Steve Moses has been suspended indefinitely for breach of contract. The team made clear to indicate that it will not comment again on the matter, leaving a bit of mystery left behind.

This isn’t the first sort of story like this for Moses, who signed a one-year, $1MM deal with the Nashville Predators in 2015-16 only to agree to terminate it after he was relegated to the minor leagues. He returned to the KHL last year where he won a Gagarin Cup with SKA St. Petersburg, but came back to North America again this season. We’ll have to wait and see what happens with his contract this time around.

• Logan Couture isn’t going to be back anytime soon for the San Jose Sharks, at least not without significant improvement from his latest concussion. That’s what he told Kevin Kurz of The Athletic, bluntly stating “I’m not playing if I don’t feel good. It could be one game, it could be 10 games, it could be a whole season.” That’s not what Sharks fans want to hear while the team finds themselves in third place in the Pacific Division and in striking distance of the Los Angeles Kings and Vegas Golden Knights.
• Now that the New York Islanders have a new arena set to be ready for the 2020-21 season, they now have to focus on where to play for the next few years. They won’t be leaving Barclays Center until 2019 at the earliest, but the NHL had previously been against them returning to Nassau Coliseum. Now, with a new building on the horizon, that stance may have softened a bit. According to Brett Cyrgalis of Newsday, the NHL won’t rule out the Islanders playing the 2019-20 season in their old home, before jumping to the brand new Belmont Park location.