Archive for November, 2008
The Islanders are off today, so it’s time for another Top 9. The key word here is important - not memorable, incredible, personally-witnessed, etc.
1. Nystrom at 7:11: As Mike Bossy has said, always seemed right that one of the Islanders’ warriors should get the overtime goal in 1980 for the first Stanley Cup.
2. J.P. Parise at 0:11: [...]
10:05 pm, The NVMC - The Game: Ending an exhausting run of 6 games in 9 days that featured both impressive wins and troubling losses, the question was whether the Islanders (and Joey MacDonald) would soar or crawl to the finish line. Freddy Meyer goals in the final minute of the second period and early third carried the Islanders [...]
5:00 pm - Defenseman Thomas Pock, the lone Islanders’ healthy scratch on D tonight, has been placed on waivers.
Assuming Pock clears - and our hunch is he will - Pock could soon join what is already a fairly sound defense in Bridgeport and will be available to the Islanders as a depth defenseman.
The move could [...]
11:50 am - The Islanders made it official on Josh Bailey with a press release this morning. The lead sentence reads Bailey “will remain with the Islanders for the 2008-09 season.” I would take that to mean - as Greg Logan foreshadowed with Garth Snow a week ago - that Kirill Petrov has a better chance [...]
11:20 pm - While the Islanders are saying they are planning for an announcement on Saturday, the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League had one of their own today. Josh Bailey is not returning to his junior club, the Spitfires announced during their game on Friday night.
Bailey called his Windsor coach, Bob Boughner, before [...]
As the decisions begin to pile up on Garth Snow’s desk - what to do with Josh Bailey today, how to adjust the roster if Kyle Okposo returns tomorrow and Mike Sillinger returns next week - add one to the list. This has now officially gone on too long with Jeff Tambellini, and the Islanders must [...]
Nate Thompson returns in time for his old team. Mitch Fritz back to Bridgeport. Greg Logan with an excellent post from today’s practice. I’m away Friday “on assignment” but should have a post-game notebook. Talk about the game in Comments. Contribute your how-the-NYI-make-life-worth-living posts in entry below. Safe travels.
Near the end of Woody Allen’s 1979 classic movie, Manhattan, his character Issac sits on a couch, talks into one of those things they used to call a tape recorder and makes a personal list of what makes life worth living. Our next Checklist, ideal for Thanksgiving, gives you the opportunity to share your list as [...]
Here’s the crazy thing about the Penguins frantically coming back in the third period down 3-1. With that aggressive forecheck and their D pre-pinching at every opportunity, Pittsburgh played like the Islanders do all the time. With Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Jordan Staal, of course.
While the Islanders’ less-than-bold play at the home rink - [...]
Three hours and two additional reads later, I’m even more mystified by the comments of my Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray today on the Newsday site. Read Jim Baumbach’s Q & bad A with Murray here.
I was in such a rush to get the word out on Baumbach’s article that I included just my [...]
Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray sat down yesterday for an interview with Jim Baumbach of Newsday and The Final Score. Jim’s Q & A was posted this morning.
In the interview, Murray takes a shot at Gary Bettman, saying “The NHL guy can wax poetic all he wants. He’s the least of my worries.” She blames [...]
Five of the reasons why the Islanders are now in position to reach the .500 mark when they host the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Coliseum on Wednesday night…
Joey MacDonald: Better to be steady than spectacular one game, horsebleep the next. Mentored by Mike Dunham and Sudsie Maharaj, MacDonald has brought a level of stability in [...]
