High Praise from Habs Beat Writer
If only more "journalists" were as honest.
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nice write up after a very decent game
last night I thought we had more chances than the Habs and deserved to win. But we do not play like this every night, teh Islanders are a team swung by momentum. They casn play a string of nice games and win 7 out of 10 and thencome back and give up a 2-0 lead in the 1st 10:00 for weeks in a row.
They were obviously upset with what they did to Mikko in his first game. They left him out to dry early. Understandingly they were distrcted by the injury to Poulin but many other nights they play similar with no pregame set back to blame.
I hope they can find a consistent game by next season
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by Rickfansince76 on Feb 11, 2011 10:18 AM EST reply actions
That is where a veteran forward w/ locker room presence would help
I think many of us were happy with Brooks Laich so if he isn’t re-signed prior to July, Garth should target him.
Good Article
But did they have to throw ‘Lowly’ in the title? I’m beginning to think that Lowly is now a place and that’s where the Isles are from.
“Ladies and gentlemen, your Lowly Islanders!”
Right now they are kind of lowly
both in the standings and in the estimation of the rest of the NHL. Devils get a mulligan because of their recent past. Oil is an up and coming team that was to the Finals five years ago, Sens four years. And then, of course, there are the Leafs who are a category of their own.
Oil up and coming...
they have further to go IMHO than Isles, re:rebuild. And their fans are crying too that high end UFAs do not want to be part of their rebuild. For that matter, if UFA’s don’t want to be part of a rebuild in Toronto, pretty fair assumption they don’t want to be part of one anywhere, and that is what is happening.
by CanadianIsleslifer on Feb 11, 2011 5:56 PM EST up reply actions
Article titles are not written by the author, so I take them with grain of salt
Red Fischer is also no ordinary journalist, he is the dean of Montreal sportswriters.
Sarcasm is my permanent font.
I was talking about the substance of the article
not the title. Very positive. His name did ring a bell and that makes this even nicer. Sent him an email and he sent me a thank you.
Nice article
maybe Snow could have Red draft a letter to all the potential 2011 UFA’s. He’s the first MSM guy I’ve heard say something nice about the team in years…. almost decades.
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Red Fisher...
one of the most respected hockey writers ever…been around for at least the last 1/2 century plus, has observed some of the best teams ever and all the best players in the time…knows the game inside and out. Isles fans had best listen when he speaks…much much bigger than EJ Maguire, who is also very impressed with Isles prospects and thinks it would be foolish to trade top 5 pick in this draft.
by CanadianIsleslifer on Feb 11, 2011 6:22 PM EST reply actions
Nice.
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game and won 4 straight cups. Best overall player in the nhl right now=Pavel Datsyuk.
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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.
