All Entries Tagged With: "NY Islanders"
NY ISLANDERS vs PITTSBURGH PENGUINS ROUNDTABLE PREVIEW
It’s an 8 seed versus a 1 seed. The up-and-comer taking on a Cup-chasing, playoff-proven contender. We have a singular superstar and a veteran goalie leading the underdog’s charge against a relative murderer’s row of names. But the New York Islanders/Pittsburgh Penguins quarterfinal matchup carries significant intrigue and no shortage of [...]
HOW IT FAILED: NY Islanders & Nassau … A Special Report
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EAST COAST BIAS Presents: NHL Goes To The OSCARS
Coming up soon will be a troupe of bloggers who are the creme of the NHL blogosphere to provide expertise, humor, observation and more. We are coining the project: East Coast Bias. As a bit of a taster to the effort we present to you an image tribute for Oscar night… PRESENTS NHL [...]
Fading into Absurdity
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any lower, Islander fans – and for that matter, NHL hockey fans- it gets lower. And not in the “Praise the Lowered” sense of the Devin Townsend song because there is nothing praiseworthy here. No, this is low like the “what a bunch of douchebags” sense that comes [...]
NY ISLANDERS TRADE DRAMA: Garth Makes a CBA Cap Trade with the Bruins
Got to give it to Islanders fans, they are damn passionate bunch. They desperately want to have this team and fortunes turn a corner so quickly. It’s why that start got hyped and overrated to the gills, and a 3 game slide is now a virtual apocalypse. It is why news of a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
NHL IDIOCRACY: NHL’s Fat Cats Getting Richer vs The NHLPA Plan
NHL IDIOCRACY NHL’s Fat Cats Getting Richer & The NHLPA Plan Part 1 of an ongoing series as the NHL vs NHLPA might spin wildly to a possible lockout this season… There seems to be a panic across the media and fandom of an impending lockout. That there is a rough tough NHL ownership who [...]
NY ISLANDERS IN BROOKLYN? In Talks with Barclays Center to Play Preseason Game
Is this a preemptive strike? As I first reported on Twitter on Thursday the Islanders are in discussions to host a preseason game next season at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the future home of the NBA’s New Jersey Nets. This is not the first time the Islanders have used another venue to push the [...]
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 [...]
ISLES VS RANGERS TONIGHT: Some Pre-Game Comparison Plus More On Mad Mike
My latest for CBS New York/WFAN is about tonights Isles vs Rangers matchup, plus a bit of reality to the new stuff coming out as the PR winds blow on Mike Milbury. Please give it a read. Excerpt: Over each of their last 10 games, the Islanders have kept pace with the Rangers and [...]
A New Take Coming To Light On The Mike Milbury Situation
A conflicting tale of Mike Milbury alleged assault on a 12-year boy is coming to light. There seems to be a wide disparity between witnesses’ observations on the post-peewee game antics that has landed the off-air NBC analyst in hot water, crimes and misdemeanors. Per this new take, evidently Milbury was merely breaking up [...]
The Personal Demons Of NY Islanders Prospect Corey Trivino
If you aren’t aware, I am a hockey blogger for CBS New York / WFAN now. My first blog was earlier this week with the lay of the land with the NY Islanders, arguing that the Isles have indeed taken a step forward thus far. My second piece, today, is on Isles 2008 2nd [...]
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 [...]
THE THREE GOALIE ANALYSIS: My Talk With NHL Independent Goalie Scout Justin Goldman About The Isles
UPDATE: Nabokov with a groin injury, as I said last night, and will be out “indefinitely”. That’s about a month for a goalie and a groin. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Justin Goldman, one of the brighter people I know who scouts goalies and has a real feel for the position himself. Take it away Justin…. [...]
NY ISLANDERS THIRD JERSEY DEBUTS: Here it is
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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 [...]
Winless Streak Will Put Players and Coaches On Hot Seat on Long Island
Things To Heat Up….and not in a good way. No matter how anyone chooses to spin last night, most who watched with half a wit saw a team outplayed in two periods, the first and third. The Isles came out awkward and disjointed. Then in period 2, it was they who turned on the Jets… [...]
A LOOK AT THE ISLANDERS DEFENSE: Part 2 of Series
Last week we looked at the Isles offense and asked if the makeup of the lines would lead to enough scoring to make playoffs hopes a reality. This week we look deep at the bigger and more porous issue of the last few years…The defense. Late last season, I was told that the Islanders would [...]
