Mr Botta is part of the Islanders PR spin pain train, so that’s why you get this type of drivel.

But seriously, we have a team of bad ideas that are glued together with option B’s. We talk the bad ideas up in hopes that the bad ideas will sound like genius when it all boils down to our never being good enough save one long forgotten season in 2001.

We just have a bad idea GM hiring bad idea coaching and bad idea draft picks (when we had better options) and VIOLA! Small, weak or just not good enough is the order of the day. Nobody is good in the corners and at the net as well, nobody is hard hitting and capable of moving the puck as well, just no dynamic players aside from our has beens Guerin and Weight. (Hunter is a solid B player who can’t fight or skate to save his life unfortunately)

We really, REALLY need the gems of the draft and need to stop drafting also rans. Hopefully Okposo and Bailey can be solid enough in the future, not just future Bergy’s or Nielson’s.

I’m just so tired of being an abused Islanders fan. I’m tired of being constantly told (every year)just how bright the future is.

I’m tired of being taken for granted. I’m tired of being treated like I have no idea what’s really going on.

I’m tired of being handed a bill of goods that is consistently not up to NHL standard.

I’m tired of hearing “look out for this player” “he’s got a tremendous upside” Only to be disappointed after a season and a half.

I’m tired of passing over goal scorers for “grinders” and defensive-offensemen. I’m tired of “strong in the corners” guys (yes, they have importance) but at the sake of truly gifted snipers? All we ever get are mid-level, not going to mess up too badly but not going to excel players on the Isles. The names and faces change every year but the player is always the same.

I’m tired of the never ending blandness of the Islanders.

I’m tired of pretending that we have an elite goaltender.

I’m tired of just pining away for what used to be. I’m tired of only getting to really truly smile about the Islanders when I think back at the glory years of long ago.

I wish real honest to goodness hockey people were running the team. No offense to the people in the organization, I do not know them personally but I figure they are fine men but it’s just so tiresome now.

Why don’t things Ever really change for the Islanders?

It’s just a thread of sadness in Islander fans lives.

“We’re Rebuilding!”

Yes, with a few kids, the cheap vets we overpay and the lucky-to-be-in-the-league leftovers. Rebuilding. Bailey, Okposo and thekids who aren’t cutting it (Bergy will I HOPE and Comeau was not welcome before).

So Gorton is the perfect guy to deflect criticism from this team. A high speed system for a team with little speed. The results can’t be questioned because “we’re rebuilding.” I think this is your answer Germaine. Inadequate in all aspects of the organization. One common hand in the process for eight years.

Oh, and Greg: I dont think that any team can do now what the Rags did in 94 because you can no longer use piles of money to buy entire lines from other NHL teams.