Jordan Eberle scored two goals as the Islanders defeated the Florida Panthers, 4-2, on Tuesday in Game 2 of their the best-of-five Stanley Cup qualifier series. 


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The Stanley Cup playoffs have featured five players with LI roots; 11 played at least one game in the NHL this season.

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The weekend will include a skills competition and then a three-on-three, round-robin tournament among five nationally-based squads.

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Bobby Valentine goes into the Mets' Hall of Fame this weekend, and his former baseball manager, Stanley Cup-winning coach Lou Lamoriello, will be there to watch.

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"There's nothing greater than winning a title in New York because you have to deal with so much animosity through the media and fans," Darryl Strawberry told Newsday.

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And they'll also have a new coach for the power play after Ray Bennett was let go.

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He missed all of 2025 with a hip injury but made 12 of 14 field-goal attempts from 50-plus yards in 2024.

Jets sign former Dolphins kicker Sanders

"I'm grateful for the team I have here and the brothers I have, and honored to be wearing this jersey," Karl-Anthony Towns said.

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Odell Beckham Jr., who signed Monday, didn't get as many first-team reps as players like Juju Smith-Schuster and Braxton Berrios during OTAs Wednesday.

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Recently passed state auto insurance reforms could help lower car insurance rates as much as 10% for New York drivers, according to some estimates. NewsdayTV's Virginia Huie reports.

NYS takes crack at lowering auto insurance premiums. Here's what that means for LI.

NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits the Long Island Game Farm for an inside look at the incredible hands-on wildlife encounters there.

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If approved, it would be the first new hospital on Long Island since 1980. Newsday business reporter James T. Madore has more.

NYU Langone plans new hospital in Melville 

NewsdayTV's Elisa DiStefano visited Main Event, an entertainment center that recently opened in Deer Park.

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Newsday food writer Erica Marcus helps make a strawberry crunch ice cream at Coyle's Ice Cream in Islip.

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Rockville Centre's Lavert Henderson-Hobbs has been a Knicks' season-ticket holder since 1969.

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NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa visits Chubs Meats in Medford to try The Brunson, a sandwich inspired by the New York Knicks' star player.

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NewsdayTV's Macy Egeland speaks to actor Gary Sinise about the Wantagh Union Free School District partnering with his foundation to raise money for field trips to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, as well as a commemorative 9/11 statue in front of Wantagh High School.

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Kathleen Simonetti's son Noah, now 4, was diagnosed with a rare gene mutation, PPA2 deficiency. Simonetti hopes to spread awareness of the condition.

LI mom spreads awareness for son's rare disease

A team of NASA engineers is studying the Apollo Lunar Module on display at the Cradle of Aviation in Uniondale in preparation of America's next moon landing.

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