Injury Updates: Islanders Recall Poulin, Wallace; MacDonald Joins Pandolfo on IR; Grabner day to day
by Dominik on Dec 5, 2011 4:32 PM EST
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Well then. The troops have come home from the road excited by victories but hitting the medical tent in droves.
You knew Andrew MacDonald -- who missed both weekend games -- was banged up (leg), but now the New York Islanders have placed him on Injured Reserve with an estimate of missing two to four weeks.
Jay Pandolfo (broken foot) also officially hit IR (retroactively), and though Rick DiPietro (groin) is out with no timetable and Michael Grabner (groin) is day to day, you might expect one of those open roster slots to be taken soon by Evgeni Nabokov, who skated with the team this morning.
That means there's plenty of room for roster-gazing and armchair Bridgeport recalls in the near term, and those are already in the works. [UPDATE: It's Kevin Poulin and Tim Wallace on the way up.]
Down on the farm, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers do not play again until Saturday at home, so that leaves at minimum two mid-week games for the Islanders to go depth diving. Even with Nino Niederreiter (concussion) not on IR yet, the Islanders have at least one extra non-goalie spot they can fill on the 23-man roster. (Mark Fistric has a hearing for his hit on Nino, but he says he's innocent.)
Newsday's Arthur Staple just tweeted that Kevin Poulin will be recalled on emergency basis. He also predicts that forward slot will be taken either by Justin DiBenedetto or Tim Where Wallace At on emergency basis. [See official update above.]
In happier news, Matt Moulson was named NHL First Star of the Week. Four goals in one game, and seven in four, will do that. (Feel free to pump the SB Nation NY Player of the Week poll here, too.)
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AMac
AMac took a shot to the leg. He didn’t break anything, right? Is it a deep bruise that is going to keep him out 2-4 weeks? Or did it hit his knee and mess something up there?
2-4 (or 3-5 weeks) sounds like a strange amount of time to miss because of a blocked shot. (Usually it is either less or more, isn’t it?)
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by North Dakota Red Eagle on Dec 5, 2011 4:46 PM EST reply actions
Was thinking the same
Technically for IR purposes it only needs to be a week, so if it’s a bad bruise they’re covered there even if it’s not 2-4 weeks. Don’t know if they want some extra hip rest while they’re at it or what.
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Sounds like a bad sprain or something. I agree that a bruise isn't worth a month off.
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
Hard to see how a blocked shot could sprain something
A bone bruise could really hamper a person’s skating. Could even be a small fracture they’re worried about.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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I still think
there’s a chance that it might have nicked an … ummmm …. sensitive area.
Don't make me bring out the Silky.
I’m not that negative right now, but I was peeking at the draft. I think I’d prefer the defenseman Murray.
Don't make me bring out the Silky.
If we go D, I want Dumba. Looks like the complete package as far as O+Physicality+Skating from the blueline goes.
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
DUMBA!
The nointh wonda of da univoise!
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by mikb on Dec 5, 2011 8:42 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Rahkshani, maybe?
Closest thing we’ve got to Grabs in the speed department, I think.
Then we can just FN’Rahk!
Hoping that Haley comes around more than once every 75 years.
by ilopan on Dec 5, 2011 4:59 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
He JUST returned from injury in BP
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by Mark D on Dec 5, 2011 6:58 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
As much as that Linename would Rakh...
Rhett has probably gone to the back of the line call-up wise. There’s no doubt he deserves a shot, but he’s had two chances to win a roster spot and he’s come up lame twice. Him and Katic have seen there chances come and go, and now it’s time for Ullstrom and Wallace to possibly show some spark.
eventually I think Rhett could re-surface as a fourth line RW platoon with Haley. Rhett, IMHO, gives them a little Jason Blake type energy on the bottom six to create offense through the forecheck.
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To be fair
didn’t one of Rakh’s shots at the big time get cut short by a concussion?
Hoping that Haley comes around more than once every 75 years.
That's what I meant by "coming up lame"
Not his fault, but he’s had a few opprotunities… he’ll get more.
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And technically
Both were cut short by concussions, right? (Last year and this year’s training camp?)
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Matt Moulson = Jeff Spicoli
I always laugh at the Fast Times reference. The times I’ve met Moulson, he’s come across as more of a loveable geek than a dude, but I still love the comparison.
President of the "Don't Trade Travis Hamonic EVER!" Fan Club
Ask Moulson what he feels about
Mark “Cutback” Davis, or Bob “Jungle Vet” Gerard…
Yeah, the fact it's not quite true* makes it more fun to play up.
Always more fun to exaggerate legends that have the tiniest connection to reality.
*Statement assumes Moulson is not, in fact, a stoner surfer. Has not been evaluated by the FDA.
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I don't know Dom
He eats at Chipotle a lot…something’s causing him to get the munchies.
by 4PeatSake on Dec 5, 2011 11:02 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
"Don't worry guys, my family has this ultimate set of brother-in-laws to fix our team."
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
by OzzyFan on Dec 5, 2011 6:14 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
I love the Stars coaches quote here:
“Sometimes when you hit, you’re momentum is moving upward, that’s how you hit. Whatever sport you’re in, you bend your knees and you drive your legs. He got off the ground, so it will be up to the league to decide.’’
Yeah, throwing you’re momentum “up” instead of diagonally ultimately leads you to “leaving your feet” and “high hits”. It’s common sense. Are nhl players stupid? I don’t think so. If Fistric just threw his weight diagonally and not “up”, like a player intending to injure would, “not saying harming was intentional”, there would be no talk of an illegal hit since his arms look down imo. Arms down and no jumping=no head contact, arms down and leaving the feet/exploding-upward=head contact. That simple.
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
The team's coaches are going to have to say stuff like that.
I think it’s a good, even, non-committal statement.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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Yeah, and What Does Our Dopey Coach Say?
“No, they’ve got a tough job to do. I don’t know if he left his feet or if he didn’t. It’s a hit. It’s part of the game and for the NHL officials to decide.”
You gotta play the war of words, like Bylsma does. Cap should be outraged even if he isn’t outraged.
Somebody Should Get Ready to Kick Fistric's Ass Big Time When the Stars Visit the NVMC on December 15th
Paging Mr. Haley and Mr. Gillies!
I actually don't think Fistric was being all smart-and-clever exploding upward
I just think NHL players who cultivate physical reputations to stay in the league tend to take shortcuts to maintain that reputation. (And yes, I think many of them are patently stupid.)
People seem to believe hitting is a “right” just for being out on the ice. I believe it’s a responsibility, and the burden is on the checker to either do it right or not take the risk. Players who make their living “playing on the edge” have determined that not taking the risk could end in not having a job anymore, so they take the risk, take the suspensions, and take the reputation (good and bad) that comes with it.
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And the worst(for a small time frame), has occurred to our defense. One of our top 3 is out for a month.
Not to beat a dead horse, but if Garth acquires a “good/decent” top 4 d-man to eat 19-20min/gm reliably, we wouldn’t be in this situation. (Staios has held up decently, but still way too many stupid penalites + stupid mistakes + Streit hiding some of his weaknesses has been livable. I’d call Staios right now a good bottom pair guy, but that’s it). This is gonna get interesting.
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
It is sadly impossible to pull All-Stars out of one's rump at will
He gave it a shot with Ehrhoff. He could trade for one, but with what? Probably people we’d miss. This isn’t EA Sports, the AI isn’t going to hand over a top-pair guy to the Isles for spare parts.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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You mean Mottau for Shea Weber doesn't work in real life?
Damn EA sports unrealism!
Can one be an atheist toward a hockey team? That means I have NO faith anymore.
Andy Sutton is big, and one of the most injury-plagued D-men we've had
I agree he needed to add depth if he could, but I don’t know how much frames have to do with this issue.
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As I recall MacDonald ...
missed a big block of games late in to 2009-10 season, and then of course there was last year.
Pains me to bring it up, but are we looking at another enrollee in the Martinek School of Injury Prone Backliners?
2-15-4 last year when Macdonald wasn't in the lineup. Time to say some prayers. lol
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
It's incredible this team's recent history ...
with D-men and injuries.
Not that size is any guarantee of durability but Mayfield and Pedan are supposed to be tough guys right? How are those guys progessing?
(I’m almost ascared to even mention DeHaan, he’s not of the big and tough variety.)
Pens just lost Letang and Michalik to concussions
And I am sure they will survive.
D men get injured. The GM’s job is to make sure there is enough depth so that injuries don’t completely expose the team. Our GM, sadly, has not done so, despite a season that screamed that our injury to our D was a particularly big risk.
I would say that we are in a worse position to endure injuries this year as compared to last year (when we had Katic, Hillen and Martinek in mix).
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by DP'sknee(andhipandflubugandotherknee) on Dec 5, 2011 6:32 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Our GM, sadly, has not done so, despite a season that screamed that our injury to our D was a particularly big risk.
I generally don’t like to give Garth a hard time for signing stuff because he’s in a tough spot with a small market team and what seems to be a shoestring budget even by those standards, but the Hillen thing bugged me then and it still bugs me. I know they thought they’d have Katic, but that’s still not an excuse to me. Mottau could have been doing AHL time all season if we still had Hillen, and this might have been the first we’d seen of him all year.
I guess the only downside to that is we never would have seen the Snow Angel of Despair.
Don't make me bring out the Silky.
by afrosupreme on Dec 5, 2011 6:43 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
You'll find most teams suffer more injuries at D
It’s just a high-risk position, so going through 10-12 bodies in a year is more common than you might think.
The trick is acquiring depth, and of course with waiver needs that makes it even trickier because outside of emergency recalls you either need guys who are young and good (waiver exempt) or guys who are old and … not good (i.e. no one claims them on waivers).
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The call-up is Wallace
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I’m an idiot
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So Martin plays the 3rd line and Ullstrom is bumped to the 2nd you think?
Or do we dread the Rolston bump back to the 2nd line? Please no.
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
Either that
or Ullstrom centers and Bailey to wing with FN and KO. Wallace seems 4th liner ish I think.
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WHAT-DOES-TIM-WALLACE-LOOK-LIKE?
What?
SAY “WHAT” AGAIN!
by Les Beaver on Dec 5, 2011 9:29 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
they play hockey in what?
Ain’t no league I never heard of!
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Yo you got to get me back to Bridgeport, this Long Island place has crickets
You wouldn't believe how good the Corsi is for my NHL 12 Be A Pro player.
by ArsenalLI on Dec 5, 2011 6:42 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
yay!
lets add another pipsqueak softie to this lineup like wallace and wait for another promising young player to be rammed and concussed and career put in jeopardy because teams know they can!
this time it can just as easily be taveras.
and im sure haley will be watching from the press box too going foward because this organization just wont learn and is run by morons
1 have you ever seen Wallace play?
2 Part of the reason to call up Wallace is because the Islanders have nothing invested in him, unlike most of the other forwards.
3 Look, I realize we’re usually a bit more optimistic about the team then most Islander sites, but your not going to continue dropping comments that are nearly identical time and time again. We get it, you don’t like Snow and Wang. They are idiots who can do nothing right. The team would be saved if the Islanders had started Haley in the NHL and never let Zeke go.
Are you actually a fan of the team? Is there anything you enjoy? Look, when I reached my end with the Milbury era, I stopped. I wasn’t going to sit there and stress all the time about the amazing stupidity. In the end it’s better that way. Why waste the time and work on something that is just going to infuriate you?
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by Mark D on Dec 5, 2011 7:24 PM EST up reply actions 10 recs
He's also 6'1" 207
That makes him our 3rd biggest forward behind Martin and Rolston. I guess they could’ve brought up Colliton or Marcinko, but really, it gets no bigger from BPT for forwards.
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yes i.ve seen wallace play
and more than once. he’s nothing. and soft
haley and gillies should be here on a daily basis or you’ll have more guys “nino’d”, flat on their backs looking into space not knowing where they are. concussed and careers in jeopardy. its been happening for years now to this team because they are soft
who’s next to be laid out, taveras? moulson? take your pick
I love logic
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OMG, every time they call a Wallace up, another prospect dies!
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I think it's clear as day that someone wanted a Gillies call-up. lol
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Gillies-Haley-Zeke
ON 1!!ONE LINE@!!
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by DP'sknee(andhipandflubugandotherknee) on Dec 5, 2011 10:40 PM EST up reply actions
Time Wallace
is 27.
That is all.
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by DP'sknee(andhipandflubugandotherknee) on Dec 5, 2011 10:41 PM EST up reply actions
Time=Tim
Way to screw up the snark with a typo DP!
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by DP'sknee(andhipandflubugandotherknee) on Dec 5, 2011 10:42 PM EST up reply actions
Boston and Pittsburgh Playing
Hopefully a Sudden Death type scenario occurs, just no fireman to save the day.
Hope for a brawl. Lucic + Chara + Thornton vs the whole Pens team. It's a fair fight right? I'd probably give the end to the Bruins trio.
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
what happens with penalties
are there any in this game….
by ghalbart on Dec 5, 2011 7:48 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm really interested to see how Wallace would do on the 4th line.
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
Are the Panthers this years' Coyotes?
Watching the game right now, they are all over the Caps, who are just free falling.
I have to say
they are pretty fun to watch. Good on them and Dineen. Not to mention they have some nice prospects.
It is good for them, their fanbase has suffered as much as ours has
smart move grabbing a Cup winning GM and then 5 of his players from the cup winning team lol
Kinda like a mini version of the 94 rangers lol
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by Jtpdolphins2009 on Dec 5, 2011 8:02 PM EST up reply actions
Well, adding Campbell and a bunch of 2-way/defensively-responsible forwards + a solid gameplan could help them like that.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they snuck into the playoffs.
What do you mean they won 4 cups in a row? Is that possible?
weakest link seems like it would be goaltending
but they keep on rolling with arguably two back up goalies.
Looks to me like no matter what realignment plan happens.....
The Islanders will still be with all of those other teams they are now, plus a few other good ones too
With that said, I say no to the new realignment
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That would make for one confusing All-Star game.
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by North Dakota Red Eagle on Dec 5, 2011 9:28 PM EST up reply actions
What the Heck is the Difference Between a Conference and a Division?
Bettman wants four “conferences,” not “divisions.” Then what are the East and West groups that meet for the Cup? Stupid.
Here’s a novel idea. Call the four "conferences Patrick, Norris, Smythe and Adams, and call the two groupings Wales and Campbell.
by rmblifn on Dec 5, 2011 9:35 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Then what are the East and West groups that meet for the Cup?
Apparently it won’t work like that. The top four teams from each conference will play within the conference for the first two rounds of the playoffs (the way it used to work with the divisions).
Then the remaining four teams will be reseeded for the final two rounds. So basically you could have a scenario where (pending the realignment), Boston played the Isles for the Cup.
Don't make me bring out the Silky.
by afrosupreme on Dec 5, 2011 9:39 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I love it!
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by TheMetalChick on Dec 5, 2011 11:31 PM EST up reply actions
I Like It Except for the First Two Rounds
It’s back to the boring, boring mid-80s where you had the same play-off opponents year after year after year after year after year ….
agreed
How hard would it be to hand out the top four seeds to the division winners and then go 5-16 across the rest of the league? I for one would welcome back the days when you could open cross-country and then spend the later rounds infighting with your divisional rivals. I think that would be the best of both formats.
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I find absolutely nothing boring in playing teams in our own division, its the way it should be.
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by TheMetalChick on Dec 6, 2011 5:18 PM EST up reply actions
Seems like that has indeed happened
The NHL’s Board of Governors on Monday approved a radical realignment plan, according to multiple reports. The plan reportedly eliminates the current two-conference, six-division setup in favor of a configuration that features four conferences based on geography. Two conferences will have eight teams and the other two conferences will have seven teams, according to the report.
I don’t know why they are using the word conference, instead of two conferences/four divisions, but whatever.
I don’t love the intraconference first two rounds of the playoffs, but who knows how long that will last.
Don't make me bring out the Silky.
this realignment will make our "conference"
even harder I think
We will still have the Rags, Flyers and Devils with us and then probably either Boston or Washington
not sure about Pittsburgh, but I am telling you there was no way that a realignment was going to make our division any easier for us; I had said that from day 1
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by Jtpdolphins2009 on Dec 5, 2011 9:42 PM EST up reply actions
It's the old Patrick Division plus Carolina
by andrew430 on Dec 5, 2011 9:53 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
in other words
a harder division that we already have
you said they wanted realignment?
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by Jtpdolphins2009 on Dec 5, 2011 10:02 PM EST up reply actions
without doing east and west
I guess it does not matter which divisions have 8 teams, but if you look, most of the West teams are now in divisions of 8
James T Paulson
by Jtpdolphins2009 on Dec 5, 2011 10:03 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, it matters
You want to be in a 7-team division. Top four in each division go to the playoffs. Ours will only be 7, but tough: Pens, Caps, Rags, Flyers, Devs, Canes and Isles.
but looking at the way the playoffs would set up
its basically the way it used to be
division matchups in the 1st two rounds
I guess I am ok with that
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by Jtpdolphins2009 on Dec 5, 2011 10:05 PM EST up reply actions
I like the re-alignment.
Can one be an atheist toward a hockey team? That means I have NO faith anymore.
by Turgeon1992 on Dec 5, 2011 10:34 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
ME TOO!
The Patrick Division lives again!!!!!
With the Whalers added in for good luck lol!
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by TheMetalChick on Dec 5, 2011 11:56 PM EST up reply actions
whoooooo! :D
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by TheMetalChick on Dec 5, 2011 11:30 PM EST up reply actions
Ovechkin took a slapshot to the face
and it looks like Captain Courageous Concussion was a little fiesty tonight…I know he (Sid) got hurt a little tonight too (on a hit from Kunitz) and Del Zotto and Sauer both went down in the Ranger game.
/schadenfreude
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But did Sid punch anyone in the balls?
Because he’ll go there.
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by Dominik on Dec 6, 2011 3:16 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Whoo!
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Holy...
The things I have missed.
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Is that the MSG snack bar?
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by Keith Quinn on Dec 5, 2011 10:15 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yuck! snap!
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by TheMetalChick on Dec 6, 2011 12:46 AM EST up reply actions
Taken a little personal....
As an Islanders fan working at MSG.
We caught a lot of hell from the board of health a couple of years ago. But the last couple of years, they hired a couple of people as “Health Code” inspectors. All food stands and bars got an ‘A’ rating from the city board of health.
I also prefer that they keep the crappy rat shit on the ice!!
I Didn't Know Kenny Linseman Came Out of Retirement!
by rmblifn on Dec 6, 2011 1:19 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
rec'd for classic nickname reference
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Poulin making it makes me think DP's hitting IR soon.
Otherwise it’d b eNIlsson again.
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I dont think it says anything other than Poulin has been playing better.
Nabokovs practicing, and when he is back the BPT goalie will go back, no matter who he is.
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by TheMetalChick on Dec 6, 2011 12:46 AM EST up reply actions
Not so sure about that
Bridgeport doesn’t play until Saturday. Nabokov is skating with the team.
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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.
