A BIG Thank You!
by The Fitz on Mar 7, 2011 1:08 PM EST
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PrintHello Islanders fans! Pretty good weekend of games. Wish we could have won the shootout yesterday, but getting a point against the Devils right now is pretty darn good! On to the post....
Just wanted to give a very BIG thank you to Evgeni Nabokov to sticking it to the Islanders. If he reported we would have never traded for Al Montoya and we would not be seeing what looks to be the BEGINNING of a nice career; instead we would be seeing the END of Nabokov's career!
Thanks Evgeni!
Signed,
All Islanders fans
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It's up to you now, Garth...
It’s been a great honeymoon thus far, but Garth needs to step up with a nice 2-3 yr. deal so Al stays around. El Cubano Grande won’t stay if Garth dicks him around, especially after what he’s shown this past month. Why audition him and have him sign a fat deal in Toronto, Dallas, or god forbid, MSG?
I can’t help but notice, when Roli came down here to Tampa, he had a sweet ‘God of Thunder Thor’ helmet made up in about a week. It’s his 6th team, but he wanted to fit in. Yet Al is still wearing the same ‘Yotes lid he came to Uniondale with. Sure, his salary might be lower than Roli’s, but c’mon, DiP could spot him some cash so he can wear Isles gear.
Get a deal done, Garth, please!
It’s been a great honeymoon thus far, but Garth needs to step up with a nice 2-3 yr. deal so Al stays around. El Cubano Grande won’t stay if Garth dicks him around, especially after what he’s shown this past month. Why audition him and have him sign a fat deal in Toronto, Dallas, or god forbid, MSG?
Heis a RFA… that leaves the power in the hands of Garth, not Montoya.
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by TheMetalChick on Mar 7, 2011 9:09 PM EST up reply actions
Keeping an RFA who is holding his own in the organization is not "retarded".
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by TheMetalChick on Mar 9, 2011 12:48 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Completely agreed. And calling someone's opinion retarded is extremely wrong and probably hits home with some people. So I'd start apologizing if I were you garik.
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Thanks. I have a cousin that is retarded, and pretty much go off on anyone who uses that word. Mistakes happen, don't worry about it.
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.
I'm also an optimistic Knicks fan, pessimistic Mets fan, and a happy Jets fan.
"holding his own" over 11 games.
Give him a cheap 1 year deal and see if he can continue before committing long term. 1.75 per for 2 is nuts.
a 1y deal makes perfect sense IMO.
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by TheMetalChick on Mar 9, 2011 6:55 PM EST up reply actions
First of all...that offer was assuming he finishes his season the way he started it.
that said…the offer might be a little high. But since “this is retarted”, maybe you could tell me who’s going to be our #1 next season? DP? Tell me what the statistical chance on that is. Poulin? Still very young, but you could make a case for it. Either way we’ll need a backup. But you wouldnt even give him 1 year?? If that pans out, when DP’s knee finally just explodes next season, the Isles are gonna look real stupid for letting him go…so far he’s proven he belongs here, let him prove he doesnt b4 you let him go.
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Audition because a month is no time at all in goalie years
Sports Illustrated, Oct. 29, 2001:
If you recall goalie Roman Turek from last spring’s NHL playoffs, you probably remember him standing in the St. Louis Blues’ crease looking pleadingly toward the bench. This was in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals, which the Blues would lose to the Colorado Avalanche in five games, and Turek had just surrendered three goals in 78 seconds. Each goal had been softer than the one before, and as Turek stood in his state of distress, waiting for rookie backup Brent Johnson to spell him, fans gave in to their worst rubbernecking impulses and stared.
Voyeurs, take a look at him now. Turek wears the red and gold of the Calgary Flames, and as of Sunday, with the season nearly three weeks old, he was about as hot as the flaming logo on his chest. He had established a Calgary record by opening the season with consecutive shutouts, he had beaten the supposedly superior Detroit Red Wings, Dallas Stars and Edmonton Oilers, and he had a 6-1 record and had stopped 95% of the shots against him. The Flames, in fact, had won more than three games in October for the first time since the 1996-97 season, and Calgary’s long-suffering faithful were coming to the Saddledome with placards demanding that the 31-year-old Turek run for mayor. One local pub got so hopped up that it offered beers for the same price as Turek’s goals-against average. That meant that the brews last Saturday night cost a piddling $1.27 Canadian (about 80 cents, U.S.) and were helping keep Flames loyalists blotto with joy.
Where the Blues saw vulnerability, Flames general manager Craig Button saw strength…
Three weeks later — November of his first season mind you — Button signed Turek to a four-year, $19 million contract extension. Button now offers his analysis on NHL Network.
I’m by no means saying Montoya is a Turek — God no. But you shouldn’t make major life decisions while hung over, mourning a death, or after just being dumped, and you shouldn’t make decisions on a goalie after 10 games. You just can’t. Montoya will get what he earns in due time.
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by Dominik on Mar 8, 2011 12:41 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
rec'd for bringing up Button's epic fail...
… not sure I give Al anything past next year… but he has definitely earned an RFA offer. He has shown that he can keep the team in games. I don’t know if anybody has noticed this, but thanks to not having a bum (knee, hip or head) or an AARP card he is allowing capuano to ride a hot goaltender through multiple back to backs. A luxury not too many coaches have had this decade.
I agree, in October he may just go crazy bust… but the pedigree is there, and he hasn’t shown us any negatives yet. Even his rebound control has been kept under wraps by a defense on the ready.
We have all seen what trying to lock down the position between the pipes can do to a franchise. But a RFA offer is not a 15 year deal worth more than $60M. As a matter of fact, you might lose a perennial all star goaltender because of that contract and the positional budget it implies. But 1 year, two way, at $1M/$100K isn’t going to kill the franchise or Al Montoya. I’m guessing that may go higher, or one-way… but they’ll survive it.
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by JPinVA on Mar 13, 2011 1:58 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Honestly, the Isles are in a great position with him
He should be happy just to have the chance and a real offer, and the Isles could be capturing at least league average goaltending for cheap. I’m not worried, his RFA deal should be reasonable.
Now San Jose going long and high on Niemi after 40 games on the other hand…that I do not get.
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Rec'd
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.
I'm also an optimistic Knicks fan, pessimistic Mets fan, and a happy Jets fan.
Not anointing him yet. Just saying we are seeing a young goalie play very well and COULD have a future with the Isles or in the league. And it is all thanks to Nabokov not reporting.
Patiently waiting to receive and open tryout invitation to camp.
we are seeing a young goalie play very well and COULD have a future with the Isles or in the league. And it is all thanks to Nabokov not reporting.
Al should send him flowers lol.
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by TheMetalChick on Mar 8, 2011 12:08 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah but,
Can I order my #35 El Islandero Cubano Grande jersey for next year? Or should I hold off? LOL
by Russel Ginart on Mar 9, 2011 3:28 PM EST up reply actions
not if he keeps this up
and I think he has a good chance since he was in the shadow of Queen Henrietta when he was drafted…This is his chance just like Grabs among others
The point is that unlike a forward through 40+ games
A goalie after 9 games (or even 40!) is still likely to have his performance greatly regress.
It’s totally possible. It’ just atm, improbable.
Well done Fitz!
Reality of the situation…
Montoya has earned an RFA offer… no matter what garik says. Why in god’s name wouldn’t you give Al a chance to show that he can pull similar numbers next year. He hasn’t had one negative game and there are only 12 left. If it wasn’t for him we’d be looking at Lawson and his 4.infinity GAA or Mikko Koskinen…who is having a tough time putting two good games together.
They might even go with Al plus another vet in camp. Who knows… so much depends on so much.
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by JPinVA on Mar 13, 2011 1:47 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Check this out:
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Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
Awesome!
I actually believed that to be true. I really hope it is.
by Fabtraption on Mar 30, 2011 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions
that's just funny
There's a mountain of buoyant nostalgia under this team and it's going to erupt like Vesuvius when the Islanders are back in playoff contention.... Count on it.
by Nova Scotia Isles Fan on Mar 30, 2011 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions
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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.
