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By: Jeff Quirin

Jeff Quirin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:30:51 +0000

I understand your point of view. However, my rankings are skewed towards know commodities. As a Blues fan I also have seen teams with high levels of young talent succeed (08-09 Blues) and also fall on their face (09-10). The Islanders are a very young team, great skill or not. With maturity and growth come expectations. Can Tavares, Moulson, Okposo, Bailey, etc continue to grow? It’s not a given by any stretch.

I think 10-12 is in reach in the relatively weak East. As I said “The Islanders are a team that will likely finish better than their initial ranking as their young core matures. Unfortunately for the faithful on Long Island instability in net and youthful inexperience leads to the bottom of the conference to start the season.”

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Pre-Season Power Rankings: Middle of the West | Hockey Independent — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:07:01 +0000

[...] installments of the Pre-Season Power Rankings I’ve looked at the bottom of the Western and Eastern Conferences. The third installment moves back to the West to see who is stuck in the [...]

By: 19 Isle in NJ 22

19 Isle in NJ 22 — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:33:58 +0000

Serious? I know figuring out “Power Rankings” is a challenge … Which is why a scoff at them to begin with. However I’ll bite.

Firstly a team is the sum of all parts. I think what needs to be a huge part of the equation is how a team finished the previous season … then take a net difference of additions to the team vs. subtractions… then quantify the health of the players going into the season. Sprinkle that with some Pre-Season Game evaluation … and then you have enough meat to come up with a fundamental “Power Ranking”

Since I’m obviously an Islander fan … and you follow the Pens. So you have been a witness to the Powerful Pens beating up on the lowly Isles for the past 3 seasons.

However … in a lot of those battles. The Isles have given the Pens fits … The last game of the season the Pens were dominating until the nothing to play for Islanders pushed the Pens to OT… Not that it should be something to hang our hat on. However… the point is that the Isles have had over a dozen late game collapses. This is a combo of youth and poor defense. The author had admitted that the defense is “Greatly” improved. The offense of the Isles should be much improved along with that defense. I think DP / Rollie may surprise some people.

The Isles improved 18 points from the season before. I don’t see this team falling back to a worst in the Conference with all the improvements… even though this year over last is modest. That all being said … I think the Isles will flirt with 8th place at different parts of the season… but mostly reside in the 12th – 10th spot.

Of course this is an opinion … and I haven’t seen any pre-season games to make an accurate judgement. I see the Cats in 15th for much of the first half.

The second half of the season is a whole new ball of wax … especially after the trading deadline kicks in for the last 20+ games.