All Entries Tagged With: "Nino Niederreiter"
Here are your 2013-2014 New York Islanders!
With the trade deadline over, fans can complain or cheer the Islanders easily predicted lack of involvement. Regardless of your opinion on whether or not the Isles should have done something, this is now the team they will go to battle with for the remaining 12 games. The talk has no shifted to playoffs and [...]
The Invisible Guests
“Charles Wang and Garth Snow were sleeping upstairs, pretending that Jack can make players care!” OK, so it’s not as good as King Diamond, but we’re trying to make a point in stealing a line from his song, “The Invisible Guests,” because if there is a team with invisible guests, it’s the Islanders. Check out [...]
Ninogate
Well, here’s something that falls into the newfound category “typically Islanders.” The agent for Nino Niederreiter publicly declared no confidence in Garth Snow or Jack Capuano, and said that he wanted his client traded. Then the fun began! The twitterverse exploded with fan outrage! The message board (is there any message board worth reading other [...]
SPECIAL COMMENT: Sleepless in Bridgeport As Nino’s Agent Asks For Trade
What if someone you never saw do much in the NHL, someone who was finally properly developing in the AHL, and he and his agent were trying to strong-arm Garth Snow to get up into NHL or get traded? Sleepless in Bridgeport… A Special Comment by B.D. Gallof It was a quiet [...]
15 Predictions for the New York Islanders in 2013
NHL hockey is a back in less than twenty-four hours! It’s a shame that we had to be saying that, but I’m also really happy to be saying that. Anyways, the New York Islanders will be at the Coliseum tomorrow night. They will be facing-off against the reigning Eastern Conference Champions, the New Jersey Devils, [...]
The Bridgeport Decision: Who Made The Cut?
Finally! The Islanders’ 48-game 2013 schedule has been released, and although it may be tough, I’m going to try make it to as many games (4) as I can before I leave for vacation on February 9th. Some notables in the schedule: -The Islanders play their first two games at home, and then take off [...]
Strome May Stick With, Visnovsky May Stick Up NY Islanders
EXCERPT from my piece on CBS New York: According to Arthur Staple over at Newsday, Ryan Strome and Griffin Reinhart will be camp invites. Back in the summer, the Islanders’ development camp perception was that Strome needed another year before being NHL ready. His professional career, however, might begin sooner. His play in the [...]
The Islanders Are Back! What Can We Expect in 2013?
That happy feeling we all got after the NHL announced they had a deal for a new CBA has not worn off. Today’s a great day, and I didn’t have to do a single thing to make it that way. It’s just nice looking forward to hockey again. It’s nice being able to talk about [...]
Nino is Not JT’s Wingman
The New York Islanders have a bright future ahead of them. Loaded with prospects, Islanders’ fans know there will be changes to come over the next few years, and the team we see now isn’t going to be the same team we see when the organization brings hockey to Brooklyn in 2015. Speculation on who [...]
The Islanders’ Baby Big-Three Have Set The Ice On Fire
Although there may not be NHL hockey at the moment, the New York Islanders future is finally coming together. Over the past few years, Islanders fans have been told to wait, and that the team is in full rebuild mode. Obviously, we wanted to win, but with the roster the Islanders have been putting on [...]
No Need To Jump The Gun On Nino Niederreiter
How was that for some hockey this weekend? The 2012-13 NHL Season did not start as it was supposed to, but there sure was a lot of hockey to watch. I watched a total of six games from Friday night to Saturday night, and I loved every second of it. Let’s see. I got to [...]
The Frustration of Forced Patience for NY Islanders Fans
My latest for CBS New York is about how fans need not to fret on Nino Niederreiter’s ice time. Too often, especially with a bad NHL team, focus then invariably sets with high expectations on the next kids. I go into the Islanders prospect process and site examples. Check it out! Next up on CBS [...]
TRUTH OF THE MATTER: Some Reality Laid Down On These Isles
What Has Come To Pass Back over the summer I warned on what plans the Isles had with one Blake Comeau. In fact, if you follow me on twitter, I’ve been saying it since the end of last season. Despite the 24 goals and 46 points within last season’s chaos, the Isles [...]
OPINION: Are These Isles a Team of Tin Men?
“When you play this game, you need to play with fire. You need to have passion. You need play with determination. You need to play with desperation… When you lace up your skates, the guy across from you, the guy on the left and the right of you, they need to know that you’ve [...]
CAUSE AND EFFECT: Beware The Blame Game & Reason For Hope
The Islanders start is not one for the ages, but lately it seems that fans seem to be whipped into a frenzy. First with Nabokov and agent seeming to spout off to the peanut galley, then once the rumors get cooking, catch flak and start saying the “party line” on record. Then suddenly we talked [...]
NY ISLANDERS SEASON PREVIEW: The Offense
Well here we are, on the cusp of another Isles season. It’s been a long haul for the Islanders faithful last few seasons, if not last 15 years. It has been very tolling on most hardcore fans over the Nassau Coliseum situation. As I warned back on August 1st and in subsequent blogs, no RFP [...]
Backchecking: The Fun Begins
It has been a painful summer in some ways for Islander fans. Just as the boys in blue and orange were gelling together, giving us glimpses of what could be, the season ended. And while 2010-11 had a stretch of games that led the New York Islanders into the abyss of the NHL standings, they [...]
What To Expect From The NY Islanders Training Camp
The battle that “they” will make a lot about, but was never a battle, is starring Nino Niederreiter. Nino has been penciled to play this year on the Isles since early this summer, if not last year. They knew what they had with Nino last year, and knew he was ready this year for the [...]
Top 10 European prospects for the 2011-12 NHL season
At the end of July I had a look at the top 12 Swedish prospects for the 2011-12 season. They included the best rookies of 2010-11 as well as the next wave of Swedish rookies who will battle for the Calder Trophy. Now it’s time to have a look at the rest of the European [...]
NY Islanders: A Recipe for Success?
We are in the dog days of summer. There is nothing worse for an Isles fan than an August where so much is left up in the air. Its been a long long month. The venue effort failed. Free agency was with minor solid piece on the bottom 6, which I warned long ago. The [...]
