I'd love to tell you the Capitals' general reaction [to the Bolts acquiring Roloson], because it was pretty funny. But the one word is somewhat unprintable on a family website. Let's just say they have a healthy respect for Roloson.
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Senators prospect Brad Peltz scored a goal last week as Yale University beat a young Russian all-star team, 5-3. Peltz’s father, Nelson, is interested in buying the New York Islanders. Word is that Charles Wang will decide his own future after the season.
Well, I mean I guess he’s going to have to decide something by this summer. Tick-tock.
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If you don’t feed the beast [the media], it will devour you. This failure to offer a post Lighthouse narrative for the team’s future is not working. I would feel sorry for Charlie for stories like the one Proteau wrote in the last THN, but he hasn’t given anyone a competing narrative for all the Islander hating journalists out there.
Rollie makes TB a true cup contender now. Rollies plays like Rollie and the TB offense keeps producing, and Rollie may have himself a cup to put on his shelf.
What a story that would be. I’d probably even shed a tear for him. At least we know who we are rooting for in the playoffs this year.
John Tavares=The Franchise, The Future, and still only 20yrs old, SO GIVE HIM SOME F**KING TIME TO MATURE CRITICS! Not everyone is Wayne Gretzky(although Tavares did break some of his records....tee hee)
Stick me with Guerin when we had a deal? Take that "Undertaker" McPhee and see how you like the Lightning now.
Just thinking back to the rumored Guerin to Caps that fell apart after sitting him out a game against Buffalo and instead sent Capt Bill to a Cup with the Pens instead. If it were true I still say the Sutton deal and this one are part of Snow’s long memory and his ability to slight those he feels have done him dirt.
Don't think he would indulge his own personal animus at the expense of Islander team interests
I could, however, imagine a scenario where both McPhee and Yzerman were offering comparable prospects for Roli and Garth decided to go with Stevie’s offer because of the history.
by BCISLEMAN on Jan 4, 2011 2:07 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Agree that yours is a more probable scenario,
but all things being equal does he pick up the phone for a courtesy call to McPhee? I get the feeling Snow can hold a grudge. McPhee wound up with Corvo for a 2nd and a pair of salary dump players instead of Sutton which was the better fit for the Caps. I think GMs build trust and relationships and they tend to deal more often than not with the same partners. I don’t think GMGM is on Snow’s speed dial.
There probably are certain subscripts going on
Did Garth take less than he might have gotten for Wiz to set a low value on puckmoving defensemen and thus soften some GM who might be looking to buy a puckmover up for a favorable trade with the Islanders later? Maybe.
GMs building trust
On that note, it’s not a bad sign that Snow and Yzerman found a match that makes sense and sounds fair for both teams. I could handle that relationship being a healthy one.
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my analysis
Stevie Y didn’t want to wait a month or two to get Roli. He wanted him now. So he made Garth an offer that was so good that Garth just couldn’t pass on it.
I agree with this, with the added incentive
that I don’t think he expected Washington to be within reach at this point in the season.
Their recent slump brought them back to the pack and left them vulnerable. In a conference/division where the difference between 1st place and 2nd place is potentially the difference between the #1 and the #4 seed in the playoffs, having a proven and very capable goaltender (which has been their only weak point thus far this season), makes a HUGE difference. While I expect that he would still have bee interested in late February, having Rollie in the lineup 20 games early is a massive boon. I think Stevie Y saw that and decided that a premium price for Rollie was well worth it.
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by Nova Scotia Isles Fan on Jan 5, 2011 7:47 AM EST up reply actions
Did anyone watch the show tonight?
This was supposed to be the episode where they show the Isles ending Sids streak.
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
I am shocked, SHOCKED
…to hear that that aspect was underplayed.
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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.
1981-82
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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.
