Islanders Links: Broken lines and prophecies edition
by Dominik on Oct 20, 2009 6:31 AM EDT
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PrintI've been traveling -- U2 was phenomenal, my hotel Internet access not so much -- so much of this you may have seen. But it's fun to put into context, for posterity.
I don't typically inflate my own prophecies as anything more than dumb luck, but did I call the "break up" of the first line or what? Mark Herrmann at Newsday and Chris Botta both reported that possibility from practice. "We have to find some secondary scoring," Gordon said, according to Botta. It's not that I think I know stuff -- rather that certain formulas in hockey are as recurring as the raising of the Cup. If they implement this in a game, I'm not a big fan, but ... well, they have to do something.
More importantly, if Frans Nielsen is back, color me excited. I just hope he's back into "game shape" soon. And by "game shape" I mean the shape that makes me think Nielsen is a hidden gem.
- Meanwhile, this wasn't so much a prophecy, but I'd accept it if I jinxed the Rangers into losing again. Or maybe it was just the Sharks, who played them better than they played the Isles.
- "We believe in this team.": Wang himself, and Garth Snow even mentioning the "P" word to Strang, plus Botta commentary.
- "We want this team." 7th Woman riffs on the potential intra-NY relocation suitors.
- Lighthouse Project: Nick with a take on recent developments, The worst-kept secret: Wang and Murray to meet. [Newsday]
- The nice section: Weight and Tavares read to kids as part of Literacy Day. [Newsday] Schremp, Park and Bergenheim, too. [7th Woman]
- Pierre LeBrun on Boston's good old-fashioned shake-up trade involving Chuck Kobasew.
- Behind the Net takes on my own pet suspect for the downfall of civilization: The shootout, projecting player performance therein.
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reading to the kids sounds like its almost SlapShot worthy.
I would have put Bailey with Okposo. If anyone seems like they can give anyone a big shot in the arm its Okposo.
Lets just pray to the Hockey Gods that we aren’t wrecking the only line that was scoring.
Lets just pray to the Hockey Gods that we aren’t wrecking the only line that was scoring.
I’m prayin’! But it sure sounds like that’s what they’re doing.
Line mixing is such a nebulous experiment. They can always put this line back together again (and I’m sure they will), but maybe some of these other guys need to be around some more talent (i.e. JT or KO) to get some mojo back.
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May 24, 1980: Tonelli to Nystrom. At long last, the steady build of the New York Islanders from expansion doormat to surprise semifinalist to annual contender reaches the promised land: Buoyed by a late season trade for Butch Goring that gave the team the depth up the middle GM Bill Torrey had been seeking, the Islanders knock off the Philadelphia Flyers in six games.
The victory justified the faith in coach Al Arbour who guided them from their second season to their first Stanley Cup seven seasons later. The Islanders would not be the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup, but they would be the only one capable of a dynasty.
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May 21, 1981: This time it was much easier. After falling to "only" 91 points in the 1979-80 season, the Islanders returned to their division title tradition, piling up 110 points -- a whole 13 points over second-place Philadelphia.
Between the quarterfinals (where they beat the upstart Oilers in six games) and the finals, the Islanders reeled off eight consecutive wins -- with a four-game sweep of archrival Rangers in between. As they defeated the Minnesota North Stars in five games for their second Cup, their goal difference in the final was a combined +10.
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May 16, 1982: Another year, another landslide title. The Islanders won the Patrick Division by a whopping 26 points over the second-place Rangers, and were seven points clear of their nearest competition for the President's Trophy, the still-not-quite-ripe Edmonton Oilers.
A first-round scare against the Pittsburgh Penguins turned in the Isles' favor thanks to John Tonelli's heroics, and a true dynasty was on its way: Past the Rangers in six games, then an eight-game sweep of the Quebec Nordiques and Vancouver Canucks to run away with the Stanley Cup.
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May 17, 1983: Not so fast, whipper-snappers. The Edmonton Oilers' steadily rising challenge for league supremacy took them all the way to the finals for the first time, where the New York Islanders summarily dispatched them in a four-game sweep. For the Islanders, the Dynasty was secured. For the Oilers, it was a powerful lesson in where talent ends and the demands of playoff hockey begin.
Four years, four Cups, 16 consecutive playoff series wins (a record that would grow to 19 until the rematch with the Oilers the following year). Mike Bossy scored 60 goals yet again, and Wayne Gretzky became acquainted with Billy Smith's crease.
