Better than none

As the 2009-10 hockey hounding campaign wears on, I keep revisiting our stash of jersey swatch cards to pluck at least one for every team that travels to Hockey Bay for the season-long Threads project.

In the case of the New York Islanders, I had four, but managed to get only these two signed Thursday by goalie coach Mike Dunham, above, and winger Jeff Tambellini.

I also had cards for goalies Rick Dipietro and Martin Biron. Dipietro, however, arranged private transportation between the Westin Tampa Harbour Island hotel and the St. Pete Times Forum. And, Biron, who's no stranger to Sharpies, was sent down to AHL Bridgeport on a conditioning assignment.