Hockey has given me so much, but now it's about giving back. I am part of the development efforts by the NHL and NHLPA to grow the game, and every day I have the honor of speaking with people at all ...

There’s a saying that good things come to those who wait. In the case of Pat LaFontaine getting into the Islanders Hall of Fame, he had to wait and wait and wait. On Saturday, before the Islanders ...

Islanders Hall of Fame inductee Pat LaFontaine poses for a photograph with his family prior to unveiling his plaque prior to a game between the Islanders and the Lightning at UBS Arena on Saturday, ...

The decade-long thaw between the Islanders and Pat LaFontaine came to a happy and emotional end Saturday. LaFontaine was finally, deservedly, cathartically inducted into the Islanders’ Hall of Fame ...

He didn't mean it this way but when Pat LaFontaine became an Islander in 1983, his arrival in Uniondale spawned two careers. The first -- as we all know -- was an extraordinary Hall of Fame hockey run ...

Forty-one years after first coming to Long Island, where he’s maintained a residence ever since regardless of whether he was playing for the Islanders, and 22 years after being inducted into the ...

DETROIT — Pat LaFontaine didn’t get a chance to talk about the current Islanders during his on-ice speech Saturday, when he was inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame. But he said to a group of ...

Pat LaFontaine, Pele, Roger Federer and Yao Ming are sports icons capable of headlining any event they attend. Yet when they come together next month for a historic global conference, the most ...

Before the Islanders drop the puck against the Lightning on Dec. 13 at UBS Arena, they'll officially make amends with one of their icons. The team announced Thursday that Pat LaFontaine will become ...

Pat LaFontaine will be the next inductee into the Islanders Hall of Fame. The club announced Thursday that LaFontaine’s induction will take place Dec. 13 ahead of its game against the Lightning. His ...