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As unbelievable as this seems, it appears that the NHL is doing something. I have no words really. Read and react in comments.

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I was just about to post this.

1) they use the term “beat” wrong
2) the denote the previous “isle’s team meetups” this summer for other game rewinds

This is getting real old. We arnt celebrating a blood bath. It was an example of how hockey games are supposed to be played. Nobody says anything when this shit occurs at most Islander/Ranger games.

Im pretty sure Pittsburgh is just butt hurt bc the captain is still hurting in the head.

Fuck the penguins. How about the last home game of the yr when we SHOWED heart in a pointless game and tied with 30 seconds left. It possibly fucked us out of drafting Larrson. (The swedish penis enlarger) But we are bullies.

by mdesarmo on Aug 15, 2011 9:31 PM EDT reply actions  

Lmao, anything in the CBA or League rules about this replaying games? lol

What a joke. The NHL makes themselves look more and more like a joke everyday. What a waste of their time. Many other things they should be policing and reviewing right now. I guess a lot of Pens fans complaining got this notice. Good to know that we can piss off Pens fans as a lowly bottom of the conference team with a bad beating on the scoreboard and on the ice. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the only things wrong with that game from the isles standpoint was the Gillies concussion hit and Martin not going at Talbot from the front. Other then that, that game was perfect.

by OzzyFan on Aug 15, 2011 9:34 PM EDT reply actions  

I think the NHL

is “looking into this” in quotes. That’s what they say when they don’t care and want people to just shutup.

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by Mark D on Aug 15, 2011 9:36 PM EDT reply actions  

This sounds about right usually

Because usually when they look into something, nothing happens, or is it that the opposite of what should happens, happens?
Idiots.

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by Keith Quinn on Aug 15, 2011 9:46 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

I hate the NHL

I hate the way its run like a fucking joke!!

by KO21 on Aug 15, 2011 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

I hope, and suspect, you're right re: "looking into"

Either way, it’s still an unbelievable f#$%ing joke that they’d even comment on it.

For Daly to say “We do not approve of the use, based on what we know” is simply spineless. For Shero to even go on record about another team’s watch party — one of many held all summer — is fanning the flames of butt hurt.

Sorry the Isles hurt your feelings, NHL. Sorry they played by the unspoken rules since you time and again refused to enforce the written ones.

Gee, I wonder why fans of this team have have an “us vs. them” orientation…

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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 12:38 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

My message sent to the NHL

I have read that the NHL is “looking into” the Islander viewing party of the 2/11/11 game with Penguins. What does that mean? What is there for the NHL to “look into”? Regardless of Penguin hypocrisy, Islander fans are proud of how their team stood up for itself as are the Islander alumni. The NHL should find better things to do with its time than wasting it by “looking into” an effort by the NYI to pump up its fans.

by BCISLEMAN on Aug 15, 2011 9:41 PM EDT reply actions  

Welcome back

I can only imagine the BS that will go on if the NHL comes out and decides not to air the game. The “joke, disgrace” adjectives will in many minds be confirmed…which is why I think they won’t ban it.

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by Keith Quinn on Aug 15, 2011 9:48 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

I will post a BR piece soon

Proteau said that each team needs its own identity. He’s right. The Isles should look for theirs in WWII history. I’ve been thinking of a poem by the late journalist Frank Hewitt. It’s entitled “The Battling Bastards of Bataan” Think of some Islander appropriate lyrics:

We’re the Battling Bastards of Bataan,
No Mama, No Papa, No Uncle Sam,
No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces,
No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces,
And nobody gives a damn!

by BCISLEMAN on Aug 15, 2011 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions  

Imagine

the fan/team building moment that would be available if the NHL declines to grant it’s “express written permission” to show the game. We can have a party at the NVMC with a blank Jumbotron and chant “Bettman Sucks” to the beat of something by Five for Fighting.

STOP effin' messin' with my FnGO!!

by Nova Scotia Isles Fan on Aug 15, 2011 9:41 PM EDT reply actions  

Crosby

I think this has to do with lingering concussion issues for Crosby

the league is likely worried more about legalities (they need to be seen as responding to the concussion epidemic)

and so allowing for glorified violence doesn’t cut it

much as that game was awesome

by Cary K on Aug 15, 2011 9:47 PM EDT reply actions  

Screw that logic.

Did the NHL give a shit when Turgeon was hurt? What about Peca?

Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)

by TheMetalChick on Aug 15, 2011 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

not defending the hypocritical NHL

just trying to figure out their “logic” on this one

by Cary K on Aug 15, 2011 10:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

Its not you

This just really, REALLY pisses me off.
The depths to which this league will sink to cater to certain teams is truly unbelievable.

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by TheMetalChick on Aug 15, 2011 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

Crosby

Too bad Crosby wasn’t playing in this game. Did the NHL give a shit when DP was hurt??? They have been laughing about that since the seond it happened!! They really are leaving the Isles no other choice but to do this all over again. They are trying to take every bit of self confidence away from this young team by insisting that they are goons!! Screw Bettman, still holding a grudge about his adoration of Spano. Too bad that was his own fault, dumbass.

by St. Dick on Aug 16, 2011 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions   2 recs

You might be right

The “optics” with Crosby’s lingering head issues probably point too uncomfortably to how the NHL is wearing no clothes.

And shame on the Islanders for targeting Penguins stars players who never fight like Talbot.

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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 12:43 AM EDT up reply actions  

Talbot was a hero

For starting that fight with Carcillo in the playoffs.

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by Keith Quinn on Aug 16, 2011 6:57 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

and of course

Talbot was the one that pulled Haley off the pile, the same Haley that gives up quite a few inches to Talbot.

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by Mark D on Aug 16, 2011 8:45 AM EDT up reply actions   2 recs

I don't know about you guys...

but I’m ‘looking in’ to DVRing the game again and watching it with my brother when he comes in from CA.

And I can’t wait

by CloseCallJiggs on Aug 15, 2011 9:49 PM EDT reply actions  

I think that if it is banned

We, as fans, should see if we can get a DVD down there and watch it anyway!

Suck it NHL!

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by Keith Quinn on Aug 15, 2011 9:50 PM EDT via mobile reply actions   1 recs

They aren't banning the MSG feed

just the viewing party…I think. So if they do ban it, which I doubt would happen, there isn’t anything stopping Isles fans from showing up anyway en masse.

"..."

by Thaddeus Ballpheasant on Aug 15, 2011 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

HOW CAN THEY???????????????

How the hell can we be NOT ALLOWED to watch an aired game in a bar????

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by TheMetalChick on Aug 15, 2011 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

The best way to respond

is for Isles fans to pack the place with so many ppl., they are forced to turn them away a the doors…have tailgate party outside

by CanadianIsleslifer on Aug 15, 2011 9:50 PM EDT reply actions   1 recs

My friend and I are going to this.

And Iw asnt even GOING to go, until this BS started. Now, theres no way I would NOT go.

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by TheMetalChick on Aug 16, 2011 1:30 AM EDT up reply actions  

Maybe it's just

BRILLIANT NHL gonzo marketing.

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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 1:36 AM EDT up reply actions  

Yep

Probably only the Bruins, Canucks, Isles and Pens (by default) have been on CNN this year. Well done NHL!

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by Keith Quinn on Aug 16, 2011 7:00 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

"Tangradi (concussion) didn't return last season"

Tangradi played the last game of the season and played a game in the series against the Lighting. He had been cleared for full contact play a month or so earlier.

by MSBerg on Aug 15, 2011 10:11 PM EDT reply actions   1 recs

Yep

But of course explaining that would require delving into context, and Bossy knows national hockey writers needn’t bother with that when discussing the Isles.

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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 12:54 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

BREAKING NEWS

RICK RYPIEN FOUND DEAD at 27

by 54_Fighting on Aug 15, 2011 10:21 PM EDT reply actions  

Thanks, Death not of a suspicious nature but at 27?

I know it probably means there was no other party involved, but when someone dies at 27 it is very suspicious. Suicide? Heart Attack? Overdose? It’s all guessing till an autopsy anyway.

by OzzyFan on Aug 15, 2011 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions  

News1130 in Vancouver is reporting that Rick Rypien took his own life. bit.ly/pKNRZ8
Tweet Button • 8/15/11 10:25 PM

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by Keith Quinn on Aug 15, 2011 10:39 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

That was tweeted by Puck Daddy

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by Keith Quinn on Aug 15, 2011 10:40 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

Good God.

That is horrible.

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by TheMetalChick on Aug 15, 2011 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

aw hell

How terrible.

The most devilish thing about depression is, no matter how good your life may be, it’s still YOU who has to live it. That’s part of the trap. That’s part of why everything seems so empty and pointless.

Has it been confirmed yet what happened?

We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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by mikb on Aug 15, 2011 11:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

On this topic (kind of)

Great, long piece at Silver Seven going into the many issues surrounding the NHL fighting culture. (Written before tonight’s news.)

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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 12:55 AM EDT up reply actions  

Signed with Winnipeg

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by Keith Quinn on Aug 15, 2011 10:36 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

Two things

A) It really pisses me off that not one of these articles (at least the few I’ve read anyway) mentions how the Isles have done this for the other re-aired games. One article mentioned how Martin struck Talbot from behind, which is just about as far from what happened as you can get while not exactly lying. There is no even keel, just a constant tilting of the table away from the Isles.

2) Kudos to Shero for his quote.

"..."

by Thaddeus Ballpheasant on Aug 15, 2011 10:26 PM EDT reply actions  

sad thing is

I dont think the NHL realizes it was not the Islanders who caused Crybabys concussion lol

but heck why not blame it on the goons right?

What pisses me off about all of this the most is that it sends a message to all teams that it is ok to run players and intend to injure, as long as you are not doing it in retaliation. It scares me how little attention is given to the events that lead up to what happened that night. It scares me, but it does not surprise me one bit.

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by Jtpdolphins2009 on Aug 16, 2011 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

This team NEEDS a real goddamn PR department

No offense to the twitter chick, they need professionals who will handle things like this.
Even SUGGESTING that this is being “looked in to” IS WRONG.

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by TheMetalChick on Aug 15, 2011 10:39 PM EDT reply actions  

This is an idea with legs

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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 1:14 AM EDT up reply actions  

This idea needs to be its own post.

I would repost the crap out of it.

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by TheMetalChick on Aug 16, 2011 1:28 AM EDT up reply actions  

Ask and ye shall receive

On the morrow.

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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 2:33 AM EDT up reply actions  

Make sure minitruth

Is re-writing the Lindros history and the Wings/Avalanche notes!

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by Keith Quinn on Aug 16, 2011 7:03 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

Anyone know?

How can I find out what OTHER games have been replayed in all other markets?
Have any of them had penalties in them? Or- GULP! injuries? Or GASP! suspensions?

I am PISSED.

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by TheMetalChick on Aug 16, 2011 1:32 AM EDT reply actions  

I wouldn't get the blood pressure up too much if I were you

There are more than enough actual shitty things that matter going on in the country and world right now — I’d direct your angst towards those rather than this meaningless bullshit.

Seriously, who the fuck cares what the league says or does about anything?

Just my $.02. :)

by AP77 on Aug 16, 2011 2:22 AM EDT up reply actions  

You're talking about The Paul Reiser Show aren't you

I don’t see what that has to do with hockey, but whatever.

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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 2:35 AM EDT up reply actions  

Already canceled after two episodes

What an abysmal show. It’s like NBC just gave up after giving the show a title.

Official choice of Lighthouse Dog #1.

by Fabtraption on Aug 16, 2011 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions  

You either need a pill or an outlet where you can vent about NON-HOCKEY CONCERNS.

THIS is a hockey blog.

We discuss hockey here. Specifically, the NHL franchise known as The New York Islanders. We do this here, because we are fans of the team and the game of hockey on the whole.

I don’t know about the rest of the folks here, but I think they’re more or less a lot like me in this respect:

WE COME HERE TO GET AWAY FROM ALL OF THE SHITTY STUFF FOR JUST A LITTLE WHILE AND TALK ABOUT HOCKEY! DO YOU MIND?

Jeff Carter to Columbus? Wait, I've seen this one before, it was called Shanahan to Hartford. Advice? Don't buy a Carter jersey.

by BrassBonanza10 on Aug 16, 2011 7:43 AM EDT up reply actions   2 recs

If that’s a veiled criticism about me, I won’t hear it and I won’t respond to it.

Wait, this is a hockey blog? Incisive stuff.

I suggest that there may in fact be some room between discussing hockey passionately and flying into a rage over some nebulous comment made in August by some pencil-pusher at the NHL front office that is perceived as an unconscionable slight against the poor (victimhood complex) Islanders.

But maybe not.

by AP77 on Aug 16, 2011 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions   2 recs

It wasn't veiled at all.

Intrigue abounds, however, in that you obviously did hear it and also did, in fact, respond to it.

Talk about awkward, eh?

Jeff Carter to Columbus? Wait, I've seen this one before, it was called Shanahan to Hartford. Advice? Don't buy a Carter jersey.

by BrassBonanza10 on Aug 16, 2011 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Yeah, I guess the Arrested Development reference missed you entirely.

by AP77 on Aug 16, 2011 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Yeah, maybe you could use references from shows that lasted longer than ten minutes next time.

Jeff Carter to Columbus? Wait, I've seen this one before, it was called Shanahan to Hartford. Advice? Don't buy a Carter jersey.

by BrassBonanza10 on Aug 16, 2011 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

You won’t find much support in these parts (or anywhere, really) by dissing Arrested Development. It just sort of makes you look sad, actually.

Hooray!

by AP77 on Aug 16, 2011 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Yeah, well, that's just like your opinion, Man...

Jeff Carter to Columbus? Wait, I've seen this one before, it was called Shanahan to Hartford. Advice? Don't buy a Carter jersey.

by BrassBonanza10 on Aug 17, 2011 2:32 AM EDT up reply actions  

Really holds the room together...

Jeff Carter to Columbus? Wait, I've seen this one before, it was called Shanahan to Hartford. Advice? Don't buy a Carter jersey.

by BrassBonanza10 on Aug 17, 2011 6:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

Whoa whoa whoa

In the immortal words of Dave Chappelle:

He made Thriller.

[Pause]

Thriller.

Official choice of Lighthouse Dog #1.

by Fabtraption on Aug 17, 2011 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Good thing Colin Campbell isnt in charge of "looking into this"

bc he’d be lighting Mario Lemieux’s torch right now and setting a blaze the soaked rags of the Molotov Cocktails for each one of the Penquins Jersey wearing mob in preparation of a “how dare you?!?!” march on the Coliseum.

I went to an Islanders Power Play and all I got was this broken stick

by Chris McNally on Aug 16, 2011 3:10 AM EDT reply actions  

To do that, Clueless Colon would have to take Lemieux's schwantz outta his mouth for longer than ten seconds...

…and neither of them want that. Not one bit.

Jeff Carter to Columbus? Wait, I've seen this one before, it was called Shanahan to Hartford. Advice? Don't buy a Carter jersey.

by BrassBonanza10 on Aug 16, 2011 7:34 AM EDT up reply actions  

You know what's going to be awesome next year

When the Pens continue to play the same way, and something happens with another team, and eventually people start saying “you know what, no wonder the Osles beat the shot out of these dirty pricks.”

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by Keith Quinn on Aug 16, 2011 7:06 AM EDT via mobile reply actions  

I say we send Haley and Gilies after Cooked and Oprik in the first game of the series.

Totally serious.

I wanna see those two hauled out counting the lights before the first intermission.

Jeff Carter to Columbus? Wait, I've seen this one before, it was called Shanahan to Hartford. Advice? Don't buy a Carter jersey.

by BrassBonanza10 on Aug 16, 2011 7:39 AM EDT up reply actions  

Who are the Osles?

Hey man Bossy and company won us four cups, enough with the jokes about their age.

"We can't get pushed around," Haley said. "What commentators say about us, that's their job. My job is to try and limit as many people who want to take liberties with our guys as possible."

by BobbyNystromOwnsYou on Aug 16, 2011 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions  

My favorite part of the game!

Jeff Carter to Columbus? Wait, I've seen this one before, it was called Shanahan to Hartford. Advice? Don't buy a Carter jersey.

by BrassBonanza10 on Aug 16, 2011 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

a nice video to show a clear 3rd man in violation

not that they actually called that penalty, nor fined the coach for his man leaving the bench to be that 3rd man in…

These comments crawl up from the depths of the deepest Chasm of Saar

by bob l on Aug 16, 2011 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

Correct.

Also, for the look of terror in Johnson’s eyes when he realized he’d just picked a fight with an actual fighter and not Mr. Glass.

Jeff Carter to Columbus? Wait, I've seen this one before, it was called Shanahan to Hartford. Advice? Don't buy a Carter jersey.

by BrassBonanza10 on Aug 16, 2011 4:28 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Man, when The Haley went after Johnson

I jumped off my couch like we had just won our 5th cup.

All my friends of other teams and some that do’n’t even like hockey, now love Micheal Haley.

"We can't get pushed around," Haley said. "What commentators say about us, that's their job. My job is to try and limit as many people who want to take liberties with our guys as possible."

by BobbyNystromOwnsYou on Aug 16, 2011 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Who (aside from Pengos fans) WOULDN'T want to see one of those laughing boys get his ass handed to him?

Friend of mine burned a copy of the game for me, I showed it to my dad and, while he’s not a hockey fan, he got a kick out of it, especially when I told him the back story.

Quote of the night, from my dad: “C’mon, Tough Guy! You’re last fight was a one punch knock out! You can take this guy!”

Of course, he was laughing hysterically as he said that.

Then he booed when it got broken up.

His follow up: “Who’s the Islanders guy again? Jesus! That guy looks like he could take both of them right now!”

Jeff Carter to Columbus? Wait, I've seen this one before, it was called Shanahan to Hartford. Advice? Don't buy a Carter jersey.

by BrassBonanza10 on Aug 16, 2011 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions  

Nice

Johnson got much tougher once Godard showed up to gang up.

Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.

by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Note on Godard jumping in...

Like I said, my dad’s not a hockey fan, but after Godard jumped in, he asked me “Hey! Don’t they have rules against that? That’s gotta be a penalty. You can’t just jump a guy who’s in a fight with another guy, can you?”

Not even a hockey fan and even he understood “Third man in”.

That’s when I realized just how big a joke NHL officiating really is.

Jeff Carter to Columbus? Wait, I've seen this one before, it was called Shanahan to Hartford. Advice? Don't buy a Carter jersey.

by BrassBonanza10 on Aug 17, 2011 2:23 AM EDT up reply actions   2 recs

I have nothing againjst what Godard did,

Of courses the officials suck, but I am not going to blame him for wanting The Haley to stop breaking his teammates down one by one.

"We can't get pushed around," Haley said. "What commentators say about us, that's their job. My job is to try and limit as many people who want to take liberties with our guys as possible."

by BobbyNystromOwnsYou on Aug 17, 2011 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

censorship

Should be reserved for things that border on what’s way out. Watch cable and even regular TV and the limits are tested everyday. Its the classic cart before the horse example. The league condones violence and as an example encourages fighting, except it depends on who is doing the fighting and who is winning. and who is whining.

by altosax on Aug 16, 2011 4:01 PM EDT reply actions   1 recs

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