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ST. LOUIS -- The long national nightmare is over, at least for a few hours.When the St. Louis Cardinals polished off a 7-1 victory Friday night over the Milwaukee Brewers, it snapped a seven-game losing streak at Busch Stadium -- their longest skid at home in 33 years.Weve won at home before and well win a lot more at home, St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said when asked about ending the streak. Hopefully, well cool that talk off for a few more days and piece together some more wins.Weather permitting, the Cardinals (41-38) get that opportunity Saturday when they resume their series with Milwaukee. There is an 80 percent chance of rain Saturday and a 100 percent chance of rain for Sundays series finale, with some forecasts predicting between 3-to-5 inches of rain for the weekends remainder.If the rain holds off, St. Louis will try to build on Friday nights game while continuing its recent trend of success against the Brewers. It is 5-2 against Milwaukee this year, outscoring it 45-14.In the previous three years, the Cardinals have won 39 of 57 games against the Brewers, including 13 of 19 last year.We havent played well against this team, Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell said. I dont have any explanation for it ... we just havent played well.The matchup of starting pitchers suggests the Brewers might be in for another tough time. St. Louis is going with Adam Wainwright (6-5, 5.04 ERA), who faces Milwaukee for the first time since rupturing his Achilles tendon April 25, 2015 at Miller Park.Wainwright is coming off a 6-2 loss Monday night in Kansas City, but is 12-8 with a 2.32 ERA in 32 career appearances (25 starts) against the Brewers. Four of his last nine starts against them have resulted in complete games.On the other hand, Milwaukee starter Jimmy Nelson is 0-5 with a 9.51 ERA in six games (five starts) against the Cardinals. Nelson (5-6, 3.60) fired five shutout innings Sunday but was no-decisioned in the Brewers 3-2 loss to Washington.Nelson will have to deal with a St. Louis lineup that profited from the return of rookie shortstop Aledmys Diaz on Friday night. Diaz, who missed the last three games after fouling a pitch off his right eye Monday night in Kansas City, bagged two hits and an RBI while fielding 11 chances flawlessly.He played pretty good defense behind me with one eye, joked Cardinals starter Jaime Garcia, who picked up the win with eight innings of work.St. Louis could also welcome back right fielder Stephen Piscotty to the lineup. Hes missed the last two games since injuring his ankle in the 12th inning of a 3-2 loss Wednesday night to Kansas City as he slid toward Alcides Escobars eventual game-winning double.Piscotty was held out of the lineup Friday night, although he reported the range of motion had returned to his ankle. 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Having already announced that the race will start May 9 with three stages in Northern Ireland and Ireland and finish in Trieste on June 1, the rest of the route was unveiled Monday. NEW YORK -- Jon Ledecky values the two-year transition period he and Scott Malkin had before taking over control of the New York Islanders this month.Ledecky visited every NHL arena and met with about 20 team presidents, picking their brains about the best business practices in running their franchises.Having those two years to learn and do that was very helpful, Ledecky said Wednesday at a luncheon with local media.Ledecky and Malkin, childhood friends and college roommates at Harvard, took over the majority stake in the Islanders on July 1 under a deal agreed to in 2014. Charles Wang, who bought the team in 2000, retains a minority stake.The way we bought the team, Commissioner [Gary] Bettman said that should be a model for other team sales, Ledecky said. Were now in our third year, and in our third year, we shouldnt be making rookie mistakes.Ledecky, who intends to be more involved than Malkin in the business operations of the team, said he was able to subtly interact with fans at the arena and while traveling to games on the subway and Long Island Rail Road.I felt great to be able to be anonymous and be able to talk to them openly, he said. The fans want a winner. They want to know that youre going to spend to the cap, if you have to, to build a winner, which we are willing to do.The Islanders are coming off a successful first season in Brooklyns Barclays Center after spending the franchises first 43 years at Long Islands Nassau Coliseum. They overcame injuries down the stretch to earn a playoff berth for the second straight year -- and the third such berth in the past four years -- while reaching the 100-point mark in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1982. New York then beat the Florida Panthers to win a postseason series for the first time since 1993 before losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning in five games in the second round.The Islanders will have a different look next season, having signed forwards Andrew Ladd, Jason Chimera and?P.A. Parenteau?to replace deeparted longtime stars Frans Nielsen, Kyle Okposo and Matt Martin.dddddddddddd Ledecky said the franchises goal is to keep improving and win a Stanley Cup, but he wont get involved in player personnel decisions. Those are left to general manager Garth Snow.You have to have full faith and confidence in your people, Ledecky said. You set the tone, you provide a budget -- and in this case, the budget is the cap at the NHL -- and you hope that your GM and his team do the right thing.Ledecky acknowledged the growing pains in the transition to the new arena and pointed to the improvements made along the way, including the hiring of an outside company for game-day presentations -- something Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark had disclosed in March.In the second half of the season, we started seeing tweaks, Ledecky said. We started doing a little bit more with the scoreboard and tried to personalize the arena a little bit. Tried to understand how you made better ice, tried to reach out to experts in the NHL to help us with that.Ledecky also said he hopes Barclays hosts an NHL All-Star Game someday.That means the ice has got to be great, he said. That means the fan experience has got to be great. That means the arena has to look like a hockey arena. We have to personalize it when were playing in it; we have to make it Islanders-centric.Asked whether there was a possibility the Islanders could play a handful of regular-season games back at Nassau Coliseum once the arenas renovations are complete -- and at a reduced capacity than before -- Ledecky said that would be a decision made by the NHL.No team owner has the right unilaterally or otherwise to go to the National Hockey League and say Im playing games over here, Im playing games over there, he said. Thats not an issue were involved in. Thats an issue the folks would have to take up with the commissioner. ' ' '