Newsday: Yesterday's Kids' Day Too promotion included a group of disadvantaged children sponsored by the Rexcorp Islanders Inspire charity. Captain Bill Guerin and Mike Comrie began a program to provide tickets and transportation at the beginning of the season, and they were joined by Ruslan Fedotenko, Jonathan Sim and Rick DiPietro before owner Charles Wang's Lighthouse Project partner Scott Rechler and his company became the title sponsor of a program that now has provided tickets for more than 11,000 children this season.

АР: Fedotenko got the Islanders even 1:53 into the second period when he got free of defenseman Mike Mottau and snapped a shot from the right circle that beat Brodeur inside the near post to make it 2-all. Fedotenko has six of his 14 goals in the past nine games.

Newsday: Approaching Tuesday's 3 p.m. NHL trade deadline, it appears increasingly likely that the Islanders are more apt to be sellers even though they are in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race. An NHL source said they are fielding offers for forwards Miroslav Satan, Ruslan Fedotenko and Mike Comrie, all of whom are headed to free agency this summer.
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Satan and Fedotenko remain prime trade bait.
After a long midseason scoring drought, Fedotenko has six goals in the past nine games, and he also has a history as the top playoff goal-scorer for Tampa Bay when it won the Stanley Cup in 2004. He hasn't received an offer from the Islanders.

Newsday: Forward Ruslan Fedotenko's agent is engaged in discussions with Isles general manager Garth Snow and has made it clear his client wants to stay, but it's doubtful that will lead to a contract before Tuesday's 3 p.m. deadline.
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Fedotenko also is represented by Walsh, who said: «Ruslan has reiterated over and over how much he wants to stay. The point has been stressed with Garth recently about how much he respects the organization and the positive hockey culture.»

Keyboard Quarterbacks: 11:42 p.m. Newsday's Greg Logan reports the Islanders have offered Miroslav Satan a contract extension. We don't know what the terms of the offer were, but if Satan accepted them, it would remove perhaps the Islanders' most valuable asset from the trading blog.
Greg also tells us that Ruslan Fedotenko and Mike Comrie have expressed a desire to remain with the Islanders, although in Fedotenko's case, the Islanders have not offered a contract extension so far.
Expect both players to be dangled at the deadline tomorrow. If Snow can find a taker for Fedotenko, he'll almost certainly move him. If he doesn't get an offer to his liking for Comrie, my guess is he'll hold onto him and try to re-sign him.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: James got the Penguins' final goal by tossing a backhander by DiPietro at 16:58, and Ruslan Fedotenko closed out the scoring when he converted a Josef Vasicek rebound during a power play at 18:43.

Newsday: In the final five minutes, the fourth line began a tremendous flurry when Blake Comeau saved an icing call before Jeff Tambellini was stopped on a point-blank shot in front. A minute later, Anderson stopped Sean Bergenheim's rebound attempt, then made a left pad save on a shot that Ruslan Fedotenko couldn't lift on the doorstep.
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«We threw everything at him," Fedotenko said of Anderson. «No excuses. We need to score the goal ... It shouldn't be that difficult to put that little black puck in that big net.»