Splinters: Gordon, Guerin, Witt, Campoli and agents
by Dominik on Feb 27, 2009 8:15 AM EST
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PrintSome mostly Islanders links, with a little Panther love and a lot of agent hate thrown in.
- Logan pulled some great quotes from Scott Gordon about building now toward next season with "the players who will be here." [Newsday]
- Update: 7th Woman gets good quotes about Bergenheim, who Gordon says "has turned a corner."
- A player who will not be here: Bill Guerin is open to the right trade. [IslandersPointBlank]
- Chris Campoli - "the poor man's Boyle" - as a Sen: 4 A, 3 GP [Ottawa Citizen]
- Brendan Witt has a hearing today for his elbow of Hagman. Leafs fans react. My reaction in the recap. Puck Daddy was on it and fully expects too little. [UPDATE: A very interesting take from a referee at Isles blog Official's Outlook]
- All the NHL agents are meeting in Toronto. Suppose we sent them a cargo plane with just enough fuel to make it to Guantanamo... [Pierre LeBrun]
- Seriously, Bettman isn't worried about the economy, but the NHLPA is. [Globe & Mail]
- A regular over at fellow SBN site Litter Box Cats went road trippin' to see the Cats knock the Rangers down at the Garden. If any Lighthouse readers catch an Isles road game and want to do a dispatch here, the FanPosts are all yours.
- Nick has an extensive report on the bloggers' meeting with the Lighthouse Project folks. [Let there be Light(house)]
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Dominik, I think the link is busted for the “official’s take” on Witt’s elbow.
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The Artist Formerly Known as "Junior", who blogs at heroesinrehab.ca/blog
"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
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Eek, thanks! It’s fixed now.
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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.
