Archive for January, 2009
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The Islanders have earned 5 points over their last 3 games. For good reason that will brighten anyone’s lookout. But the next step for the Islanders is to put together complete performances at home.
Prior to the All-Star break the Islanders had a five-game homestand (1-3-1) in which they scored a total of 6 goals. Tonight they [...]
Steve Schirripa and I spoke late last night about my post on “The Sopranos” and tickets to sporting events.
The man who played Bobby Baccala made his points. He said I was out-of-line for making him the face of the story, when it was really a horrible few weeks at the Islanders in 2007 with one of [...]
The Islanders’ plan to draft and develop young players and make them feel at home on Long Island may have its first official adoptee in Josh Bailey.
In the wake of his best NHL game last night, it’s important to note that the 19-year old’s transition to New York and the NHL did not begin in [...]
Until Joe Torre came around, Al Arbour had no competition as the pre-eminent leader of a dynastic New York franchise over the last 50 years.
Ten years ago, Torre joined the conversation. There were the four World Series championships. There were the playoff berths in every season he coached. There was the perfect management of personalities in his stacked lineup, [...]
9:40 pm - This game will be remembered for Bailey-to-Okposo twice, and for Blake Comeau on that second KO goal making the sort of play his coach is preaching: don’t feel you have to beat the other guys one-on-one. Move the puck forward and make a play.
Mostly good stuff from the kids, but it doesn’t [...]
8:40 pm - Hey, for what it’s worth, the men at NHL Central Scouting and a few other bird-dogs have told me that Swedish forward Magnus Svensson-Paajarvi very much belongs in the conversation at No. 3 with Matt Duchene.
(Which could be good, if only so I don’t have to explain to the kid why we use [...]
Logie confirms that it is Bailey centering Comeau and Okposo, Frans between Hunter and Park, Hilbert-Thompson-Jackman and Comrie-Weight-Guerin. Considering the Tavheduchian magnitude of tonight’s game, they could be talking about tonight’s game for months.
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Allow me a moment to sing about some of the members of the supporting cast of one of my all-time favorite shows, “The Sopranos.” I saw something the other day on “CenterStage,” the Michael Kay interview show on YES, that made my jaw drop in recognition.
Steve Schirripa, who played Bobby Baccala on “The Sopranos,” was [...]
Seriously. Not kidding. Really, is it so crazily out of the realm of possibility?
(I can hear Baumbach and Rieber: YESSSSSSS!)
The Islanders have 35 games left. It’s garbage time. The team can play loose. Historically in the NHL, teams like this are dangerous down the home stretch. Teams sell off players at the deadline, everyone thinks [...]
8:25 pm, The Panera in RVC - I’m sitting across the table from Kevin Schultz, the young blogger who will contribute when I’m away on assignment for most of next week. I haven’t done a background check on Kevin, but what I know is that when he writes vile and wicked stuff at least it’s under [...]
1:15 pm - The divide between in-coming and out-going is now clearer than ever. Look at these two lines at Islanders practice today:
Mike Comrie - Doug Weight - Bill Guerin
Blake Comeau - *Josh Bailey - Kyle Okposo
(*Revised, 2:45: Mark Herrmann of Newsday is reporting that it is Frans Nielsen and not Bailey in the center [...]
