Bulletin: Ed Westfall is not Charles Wang
by Dominik on Nov 17, 2011 1:04 AM EST
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Ed Westfall is a 71-year-old, Ontario-born, Stanley Cup winning former Bruin and beloved ex-Islanders player and broadcaster. Charles Wang is a 67-year-old, Shanghai-born technology entrepreneur, developer and owner of the New York Islanders for the past 11 years.
While it was jarring to see classic Islander Westfall in a new black third jersey from last night's charity unveiling, it was even more jarring to see him mistaken ... for Wang.
We don't typically shame other outlets (except for power rankings or unresearched opinions), but this goof in Puck Daddy's [since-edited] post on the 3rd jerseys was too hilarious not to preserve.
Further research has revealed Bill Guerin is not, in fact, Captain McNulty, and Mike Sillinger -- who like Westfall but unlike Wang, also wore 18 -- is not in fact Sam the Eagle from the Muppets.
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Are you saying that is Ed Westfall that look like Charles Wang or vise versa???
I’m trying to understand whats going on here…
Ladies and Gentlemen, Islander Apocalypse has most certainly arrived:(
……Goldstein’s comments in the team’s ‘3rd Jersey Backstory’ website feature are profoundly disturbing; he speaks of a desire to ‘look forward’ and hedges that the ‘blue & white motif won’t go away for a long time’…..anybody else on this blog feel reassured by that caveat? No, I fear this is an inexorable trudge to the end of this apparently irredeemable (just like these jerseys; they bagged the thin white/broad orange classic motif entirely; FAR too much white/not NEARLY enough orange, and they look like the Kings B & W jersey variations in that, which I never, ever liked the slightest bit) franchise forever.
In memoriam: Virginia Ariel Cayon 1927-2011 R.I.P. Mom
I think it was just marketing speak
I bet they’ll be one of those teams that sticks to its standard look but experiments relentlessly with the 3rd.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
by Dominik on Nov 17, 2011 10:07 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm trying to figure out ...
what the hell’s going on too. I love #18 – he’s one of the best things that ever happened to this franchise and should have been honored as such a long time ago.
But the plan for this team’s rebuild is at a fork in the road right now. I don’t give a freakin hoot about the idiot third jersey or any other distraction. With no movement on an arena and the rebuild teetering on the edge of quicksand and starting to be seen as a house of cards, all I care about is seeing positive REAL signs, and I don’t see those just happening. The GM needs to do something. Patience and inaction are not the same.
And Parenteau needs to go back to the top line. Even more important than getting him back with Tavares is getting him back with Moulson. He is not getting the chances now that he was getting from Parenteau’s presence.
- if this team isn't really careful, that fork of which you speak is going to get STUCK in it!
In memoriam: Virginia Ariel Cayon 1927-2011 R.I.P. Mom
#18, Captain of the Islanders
From the days of 12 wins a season to the brink of a Dynasty, Ed Westfall was there.
He played with leftovers no other teams wanted (or could protect), and with up and coming stars.
No Ed Westfall wasn’t the one starting all those fights with the Broad Street Bullies or with the Boston Brawlers.
But that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t step in when trouble was brewing.
A more dignified, if not old school kind of player, he was definitely someone the Islanders needed to anchor the young franchise.
After his playing days were over, he was next to Jiggs McDonald, the voices of the Islanders. Honestly, both of these men deserve a spot in Islander’s history. The face of the team may best be described with its voice. When owners came and went..one to jail, Ed was there next to Jiggs.
Whatever politics there are in sports broadcasting, when the Isles were on “Sportschannel”, they were there. My guess is when MSG acquired the TV rights, they wanted their own guy, and the Isles got a Rags fan in Howie.
Ed Westfall may not be a hall of famer, but a lot of guys aren’t. But the Ed Westfall I watched and listened to on TV deserve something. Maybe his number being retired might be a nice gesture. Or an Islanders’ Hall of Fame spot for broadcasters.
Thanks for the memories, Eddie.
Get out of the sticks, Charles, move to Queens!! Come, Get some respect a Professional team deserves!!
by Martys301 on Nov 17, 2011 3:37 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
Nice.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
Mike SIllinger is Not Sam The Eagle
Holy crap Dom, I nearly peed in my pants on that one. A classic ha ha…..
He shoots...he scoororreessss....Go Islanders!!!!!
Like twins, they are
I know I wasn’t the first to point that out; I can’t remember who showed me the light.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
by Dominik on Nov 17, 2011 10:09 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Westfall's is the greatest caucasian-to-asian conversion
Since 6’-3" Scotsman Sean Connery donned a wig and a kimono and took James Bond “undercover” as a Japanese rice paddy worker in “You Only Live Twice.”
"He's depriving some small village of a pretty good idiot" - Mike Milbury on Ziggy Palffy's agent. On Twitter: @Dan_of_Science
by PGI on Nov 17, 2011 8:33 AM EST via mobile reply actions
I try to pretend that film never happened.
But it’s too funny to ignore.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
You don't think
it looks legit?
Don't make me bring out the Silky.
by afrosupreme on Nov 17, 2011 10:20 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
It's really getting ridicurous.
- Did you say, “ridicurous”?
— Ridiculous.
- I thought you said… “ridicurous.”
Success was survival and, kid, it still is
by IslesFanInNJ on Nov 17, 2011 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
Donna Chang?
Or just some girl from Long Island?
"He's depriving some small village of a pretty good idiot" - Mike Milbury on Ziggy Palffy's agent. On Twitter: @Dan_of_Science
Donna Chang
- I should have talked to her. I love Chinese women.- If I like their race, how can that be racist?
- Isn’t that a little racist?
Success was survival and, kid, it still is
by IslesFanInNJ on Nov 17, 2011 10:50 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Strikethrough
Fantastic
Success was survival and, kid, it still is
by IslesFanInNJ on Nov 17, 2011 10:51 AM EST up reply actions
It's the phony stick-on eyebrows
that really sell it. Q branch did a smashing job on that stuff.
"He's depriving some small village of a pretty good idiot" - Mike Milbury on Ziggy Palffy's agent. On Twitter: @Dan_of_Science
.....he looks oddly like Steve McQueen in that capture.....
In memoriam: Virginia Ariel Cayon 1927-2011 R.I.P. Mom
.....or any number of such transformations in the classic Hawaii Five-O......
In memoriam: Virginia Ariel Cayon 1927-2011 R.I.P. Mom
- although I must concede:
the late Mark Lenard (a.k.a. Sarek, Spock’s father) did make a surprisingly convincing aggrieved Japanese veteran in the show’s first season – once you got USED to the notion…..
In memoriam: Virginia Ariel Cayon 1927-2011 R.I.P. Mom
Not to pick a nit
But shouldn’t Puck Daddy acknowledge the edit? isn’t that a reflection of journalistic integrity?
Success was survival and, kid, it still is
What integrity? He's a Devils fan!
I kid! I kid!
Yet another Moulson brother-in-law.
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Nov 17, 2011 8:50 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Third Jersey
Have to give the Islanders credit, just when you thought it was not possible they hit another new low.
by Woodstock 69 on Nov 17, 2011 8:52 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
man these jersey's suck
It has to be less than a 20% approval rating with the fans. It looks like something i could make when i was a kid playing roller with some tape.
Big question is. What is worse, Gordon Fisherman jersey or the new black 3rd jersey’s.
Yikes!
The Isles org just don't get it...
Why would they still put this out even tho they knew we hated it when they leaked it a couple months ago???More mismanagement
Look at what everyone ...
is talking about, rather than how the team can’t win a freakin game and not only looks to be no better than last year or the year before, but maybe even worse. At least to this point.
The timing is curious.
Diversion? Distraction maybe?
....seriously?
The Gorton Fisherman, bar none, is worse than this.
Official choice of Lighthouse Dog #1.
by Fabtraption on Nov 17, 2011 10:14 AM EST up reply actions
The worst thing about the Fisherman jersey (besides the actual fisherman)
is how dated they were. It’s the pink-and-green wallpaper in a grandmother’s kitchen. That wavy gravy stuff on the bottom looked silly then and only got sillier as the (mercifully few) years went on.
"He's depriving some small village of a pretty good idiot" - Mike Milbury on Ziggy Palffy's agent. On Twitter: @Dan_of_Science
lol, that's great. I've been reading a little into prospects, and one kid has Phaneuf written all over him: Matthew Dumba.
The kid sounds like everything Phaneuf is and possibly a better d-man. Elite/high-end skating, throws game-changing hits, has a rocket of a shot, and can play good-great defense. He’s not huge, 6’ 175lbs right now I heard, but that skillset he has and the goals he is throwing up as a D-man are pretty impressive, and he’s projected in the top 5-10 for the upcoming draft. Don’t wanna say “top 5 pick coming”, but just reading up on this guy being everything we’d love in a #1 d-man sounds pretty cool and salivating. He fights too. With how well he’s been lighting the lamp too, this kid could be a 15goal/year d-man ala weber/green/phaneuf, say 15goal/40-50pts d-man. And he’s RH, lol. Pretty damn-impressive.
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
We are in the never ending rebuild.
This team will be, no more, by the time all of these prospects come around…
Puckdaddy, showing why they are a laughing stock of a hockey news site. lol
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
God you are so right.
Bill Guerin looks just like Jimmy Mcnulty.
by The Danish Backhand of Judgement on Nov 17, 2011 10:51 AM EST reply actions
I was engrossed in The Wire during Guerin's tenure
And I couldn’t look at either without thinking of the other.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
I have to admit I had a double take on Westfall
and thought it was Wang for a minute. Facelfit Much? Could be. I dont understand what the big deal with the uniform is? I bet if the Islanders gave away 10000 tix at the next game people would say it was tasteless. So here we go again tonight another not so great team we could beat. I hope some more changes are in effect tonight although I doubt it. MAybe this team will enter a bizarro demension and start beating all the tough teams coming up and go undefeated in the death march jerseys
I think I'd pay money to have Wang in the booth next to Jiggs for one telecast
Jiggs: Islanders clear – but not out!
Wang: WHAT ARE YOU DOING????
Jiggs: Save, Nabokov! And another save! Rebound to Mottau but he whiffs on it!
Wang: STOP WASTING MY MONEY!!!!
Jiggs: And there will be a penalty on the play, and the Islanders will be shorthanded.
Wang: Holy CRAP why didn’t anybody TELL me about this?
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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