NHL 'Looking into' Re-Rerunning of Islanders 9-3 Win over Penguins, Other Blowouts not to be Enjoyed
by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 7:01 AM EDT
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PrintAccording to NHL executives, the league is looking into MSG+3K's decision to re-air a game it already re-aired this summer, a game that prompted Islanders fans to irreverently organize a "social event" to "bond with fellow fans" while watching the teams 9-3 victory over the increasingly annoying division rival Pittsburgh Penguins.
The game, which took place in February, was re-aired by MSG+++ during the season within a week of its first live airing, and again multiple times during the spring and summer, in a curious attempt by the Cablevision-owned network to appeal to Islanders fans. While the NHL regularly re-airs games on its NHL Network and encourages rights holders to re-air games that NHL fans actually enjoyed, it takes issue with a league member explicitly admitting that its fans enjoyed an event that contained incidents the Kremlin league tacitly formally cashes in on frowns upon.
"We air these games and allow the re-airing of these games for historical purposes only," said NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly, who is still completing the "How to Banally Button Up like Bettman" series courses in his MBA program.
"We are outraged to learn that fans are actually watching these games for enjoyment of any sort, and it pains us to hear league members enable that enjoyment. That is why we have rerun the Predators 4-1 first-round Game 1 playoff victory over the Ducks approximately 17 times since June."
"Seriously," Daly continued, "Who wants to watch that Preds-Ducks game but for historical record-keeping or counting scoring chances? Just two teams from that ... non-Eastern time zone over there. Moving forward we plan on only airing pregame and post-game content over the summer months to help prevent any interest from uprising."
Asked why the NHL's proprietary NHL Network re-aired several times a brawl-filled Feb. 9 Bruins-Canadiens game where the teams combined for 182 penalty minutes, including a fight between Carey Price and Tim Thomas, Daly said:
"That's different. For one, those two teams are historical rivals who we regularly promote," Daly explained. "For another, that game was received by national media and talking monkeys as a 'fun' example of 'old-time hockey.' And furthermore, both Price and Thomas admitted after the game their fight was essentially a lark, and not an act of real emotion borne of real grievances. As a league, we tend to encourage fights that don't have any basis in actual bitterness between players nor relation to the context of the on-ice competition, and we will happily re-air only those such events."
"Purely for historical reasons, of course," Daly hastened to add.
At press time, Daly refused to provide a timetable or list of options for the league's review of this dangerous situation which threatens the league's sterling credibility. However, people close to anonymous league sources who know people close to anonymous league executives say that the league's review should be completed "about when the review of Marian Gaborik's check from behind on Frans Nielsen is finished."
When asked about that analogy from anonymous people close to league sources, Daly said, "I'm not going to comment on any timetables or hypotheticals...
"But I will categorically say that Radek Martinek's pouncing on Gaborik after that hit is not condoned nor is it to be celebrated, and we'd never allow that Islanders 6-2 victory over the Rangers to be re-aired because there were fights in it between combatants actually trying to hurt each other as if engaged in some sort of rivalry. In this league we celebrate three-minute enforcers risking their cranial health to fight for show in non-game contexts. Any fisticuffs or retribution in response to actual prior grievances is expressly prohibited, and we will diligently look into any instances where a team re-airs such footage."
"This is similar to and consistent with our policy not to promote blindside hits to the head," Daly added, as he took a call from Mario Lemieux.
Around the NHL: Elsewhere, the Globe and Mail's Dave Shoalts reports that the league investigation of the re-reairing of the 9-3 victory is actually a way of distracting media from something sinister going on in Phoenix.
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Note: Post topic inspired by metalcocounut's comment in the original "looking into" thread. This is tagged as an LHH Zeitgeist post, which means it's satire and not to be taken literally. Any similarity to actual league statements, policy or logical fallacies is purely coincidental and a product of the absurdity of our times.
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This is satire???
I wouldnt put this past the NHL so thats sad in itself
Amazing
That first quote had me thinking it was real for a moment, and “How to Banally Button Up like Bettman” had me rolling.
I know it’s kind of been an LHH lovefest lately, but I want to pile on. I don’t know how you guys come up with such great content/writing day in/day out for a side job. If it were me 90% would read, “Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts.”
So add my thanks to the long list of grateful fans.
by afrosupreme on Aug 16, 2011 9:30 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
I agree
I don’t know how Dom does it day in and day out. He has something like 1,500 stories published. I’m second at a little over 100, and that’s with me being here a little more then a year. I get spurts and what not, but I don’t think I could sit down and everyday come up with something new to write about the Isles.
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I second that!!
Just the absurd fact that the NHL is “Looking into” this makes me want to lose my breakfast.
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by rob2112 on Aug 16, 2011 9:31 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Great article. The NHL is an absolute joke.
Of course the Penguins are going to say they want to “move on from that game” and they “won’t be replaying it”. Maybe that has something to do with taking a 9-3 beating on the scoreboard against a bottom place team? When was the last time any team in professional sports replayed a blowout for all the fans to relive when it was their team taking the beating? I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I certainly woke up this morning hoping to find on TV the Islanders 7-2 loss at the hands of the Rangers in December. Just itching to see that game again.
by nyislanders93 on Aug 16, 2011 10:23 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
When was the last time
… a team was up by 6 goals 25 minutes into the game? Which team didn’t show up ready to play hockey that night?
I’m not a fan of censorship in general, but if the NHL wants to cut down on the Gillies altercation, I’d be okay with that. The taunting was uniquely against the spirit of the game. (That is my interpretation, which can certainly be argued.) Aside from that, the NHL would have to do an awful lot of censoring of replayed games because, frankly, the rest of the altercations in that game were not all that unique.
Thank you, Dominik.
by North Dakota Red Eagle on Aug 16, 2011 10:49 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Agreed on Gillies. There's no place in the game for Gillies' actions with Tangradi.
Gillies likely thought Tangradi was faking an injury, but it doesn’t make the jumping and taunting of him any better. Martin also could have went at Talbot from the front, but there were plenty of more dangerous plays last season against the Isles that went unpunished.
by nyislanders93 on Aug 16, 2011 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Jeez.
I cannot believe the 243568907756890756890756890756890 times I have seen Isles fans putting this moment down. We GET it, he shouldnt have yelled! But holy SHIT, youd think he frickin stabbed the guy in the throat to a bloody death with the way Isles fans CONSTANTLY point out how much they dont like it! Trevor was yelling something- should he have done that? Nah- but holy CRAP, is it really THAT much of a BFD?
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Aug 16, 2011 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
It was pretty ugly, in hindsight (after it was known he was concussed instead of Talboting)
But the reason I think Isles fans are compelled to mention (and condemn) it is precisely because that moment gets brought up as a symbol of the rest of the game, when it was pretty much an outlier.
It’s amazing how many outsiders hold that moment up and act like the whole game went down that way. You can usually tell who watched the actual game and who watched an edited YouTube montage narrated the Penguins cheerleading crew.
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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I was at this game and honestly expected Haley and Martin to receive suspensions and not Gillies. I don’t think the group around me in Loudville expected anything for Gillies. There was so much going on and it wasn’t obvious that anyone was seriously injured, but then again, we didn’t realize that Godard came out from the bench until I saw Strang tweet it. Really, nothing beyond the Martin punch seemed all that bad being in the Coliseum that night.
by dunnowhat2type on Aug 16, 2011 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions
A couple things with the Martin "punch"
1) If he connected at all, it was just barely.
2) You can see Martin yap something before the punch. So it wasn’t entirely a surprise.
Not saying it was right. And if he connected with the punch, we would be having an entirely different conversation. But if this occured any other game of the season, it would have been forgotten by most fans in a couple weeks.
by North Dakota Red Eagle on Aug 16, 2011 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions
It seems that all we condemn that moment our efforts get ignored for its awfulness. I agree that it isn’t and shouldn’t be a big deal.
Hunter said he was just finishing his check.
by Turgeon1992 on Aug 16, 2011 12:25 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I think it's one thing to be proud of the game as a whole, which I certainly am, but to also have respect for other teams and other players.
If we just defend Gillies and say he did nothing wrong we’d be just as bad as Jack Edwards when he’s doing his thing on TV. I’m proud of the efforts of every single player that stood up for the team that night but there really is no place for what Gillies did. The original elbowing penalty is what concussed Tangradi. Then Trevor got up and dropped the gloves and started pounding on a concussed guy. Then he taunted him from off the rink. The same way we call Matt Cooke a classless goon, Trevor’s actions during that particular game resemble the dirty play that caused us to sign him in the first place.
by nyislanders93 on Aug 16, 2011 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I think we all agree on Gillies actions, they are indefensible
it’s the hypocrisy of the fans of the other teams and the NHL that galls.
After a day to think about it....
Remember though, people’s reactions days after the game and now that it’s being replayed have been taken out of context.
Was the Bruins/Canadiens game from early February any less bad? There were ‘only’ 200 PIMs in that game. Or did the media “turn a blind eye” because those teams were in a fight (pun intended) for the division lead.
Our “young and small” Islanders had been pushed around to weeks and months before the Penguins game.
Who can forget JT slamming the bench door after getting hit by Phaneuf? The blind side hit against Comeau? Briere high-sticking Frans? Cook running DP five times? Johnson breaking DP’s jaw?
The Penguins game was a perfect storm of sorts, a blow-out, heated rival, revenge for 3 of those 5 incidents.
While the team did get more attention from officials from that point on, there were plenty less cheap shots against.
Context?
Why, there is no room for context when a good pile-on is the rule of the day…
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I get a kick out of a Pens Fan's Interpretation of the Johnson/Haley altercation in that game.
I really shouldn’t read the Puck Daddy forum, but for some reason I just need to see what the idiots are saying. This guy basically said that Johnson courageously called Haley out to show that the Pens wouldn’t be intimidated. Too funny!
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That altercation was ridiculous, but there are only four referees/linesmen. There was the Gillies situation, at least one other fight going on, and Haley was sent to the box. Johnson had come out to the blue line and was taunting whoever he could, probably trying to goad Koskinen to coming out and join the fun, but he got Haley instead because no one escorted Haley to the box, he was walking there on his own. There was no control.
by dunnowhat2type on Aug 16, 2011 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions
On top of that
I love how:
- Errey’s commentary said “oh and of course Haley seeks Talbot out” when it was actually the other way around (Talbot pulled Haley from the pile, then turtled the consequences)
- Some Pens fans say Haley went after Johnson, others say Johnson bravely called him out, yet none of them think oh, just maybe, both of them willingly fought each other
- Bylsma got off for “trying” to restrain Godard from leaving the bench.
Crap, I know I fanned the flames with this post but I’m so tired of rehashing the actual sequences in that game for those misinformed people who didn’t see it!
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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
There's a video on youtube
of Johnson chirping at the Islanders bench right before Haley went after him
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Rypien
With the death of Rypien, a guy known for fighting (cause unknown at this point), I think it should be noted that a lot of these guys known as enforcers have their own special brand of emotional issues that seem to take a toll on them.
I realize this is aside from the main point of the thread here, but can anyone argue that enforcers like Chris Simon and antagonists like Avery and Darcy Tucker are a bit off center? Is the game REALLY better for having those types of players around? That, to me, is the debateable point.
And of course you could argue for every Chris Simon there’s a Tie Domi who turned into a pretty useful player over the course of his career…
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I hear you
Did you see this Silver Seven post about that topic? It’s pretty long but I think it goes into all of the pertinent issues around the topic. I think the peculiar institution of encouraged yet poo-poo’d fighting invites inner turmoil for a lot of these guys.
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bread and circuses on skates
It’s something of a chicken/egg debate – does enforcing make a guy off-kilter, or to the off-kilter guys naturally gravitate towards agitation and enforcing?
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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For sure
For me, regardless of chicken or egg, it always prompts me wondering, “Do I want to leverage off-kilter guys for my own entertainment?”
My thoughts are multi-layered and always evolving on this, but essentially I think:
- I’m not in love with fighting, but if it goes away it will because of a frightening on-ice injury/death
- I’d feel better about fighting if it were rarer and more related to game situation, without off-kilter goons semi-paying debts that Avery/Cooke types have racked up.
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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
good thoughts
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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Very good thoughts indeed...
As always, this board lives up to expectations. A shame most others do not…
by pennst92 on Aug 16, 2011 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Watching the prospect scrimmage and DeHaan, is anyone else worried about his strength at the nhl level? A bit off topic, but I was just wondering if anyone else felt the same?
I recall watching it and seeming him having “tough” battles against some ~190lbs prospect forwards. It’s just that seeing him struggle physically against players the same size as him on the boards/in-puck-battles had me worried, especially when he’s already had a couple of big injuries in his minor career. I hope for the best, but I still don’t think he’s physically strong enough to battle properly for the puck against nhl forwards. Big and heavy enough? Arguably, but his strength just didn’t look there to me(even if it was only 1 game). If so, he’s got to rely heavily on his speed/smarts and likely paired with a physical beast to ensure his success at the nhl level, unless he gets noticably stronger.
When Ogam and I saw him last year against the Bruins
I def. felt that he was a little slight of frame, but I had hoped that he would have filled out by this year, esp, under the guidance of the Isles strength and conditioning coach.
My recollection is from a year ago, but I felt he was too easily pushed off the puck then too.
a matter of more than weight alone
A guy with a low center of gravity and a solid base will be harder to push off than a heavier guy with poor balance. Certain guys also just have a better feel for using leverage. On top of that, a guy with very good hands can keep a puck battle alive or win it even if the other guy has the upper hand physically.
There are things de Haan can do to improve here that don’t involve him bulking up too much. We don’t want him to hinder the other areas of his game just to be a little tougher in the corner.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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I agree, but I don't think he's there yet(from what I've seen).
I can still see him throwing up 30pts/yr in the pros, but I just don’t see him being that “Duncan Keith-esque” defender as some people hoped. There’s nothing wrong with that, as long as he can be adequate defensively for a top 4 d-man, but I think we are looking at closer to a green-type/wiz-type d-man for now then a Keith-lite/Streit-esque d-man. Who knows though, still early. All I know is that I don’t want him starting in the NHL to start the season with what I’ve seen.
But as you said, center of gravity and leverage come into play. Maybe he just needs to position himself better and learn how to protect/guard the puck better in the corners/around forwards to solve this? I’m still worried about his strength though and fragility somewhat.
good summary
It is something to be concerned about, until he can show he’s effective one way or another.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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by mikb on Aug 16, 2011 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ozzy
Just out of curiosity, how much have you seen of CDH?
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Depends
on what they want from him at the end of the day. Mike Green struggles to battle for pucks, and isn’t great defensively, but I imagine most teams wouldn’t mind having him. Very few players can cover all aspects of the game.
It depends though. Mike Green is ultimately overrated because of his defensive faults. Ask any Caps fans and they'll say that he probably isn't going to be worth his raise next year to $6-$7mil/yr because of his defense.
Especially if they change over to a “trapish” team where he will get noticably less points on. It’s like having a 60pts wiz that you’re paying 6.5-7mil/yr. Do you really want that? I hope DeHaan doesn’t turn into that for cap reasons sake.
I agree
that generally his is somewhat overrated. But in his defense I will say he can do things few defensemen can, especially when going end to end. He can really open up the ice for his forwards.
I guess it comes down to how much you value or can leverage something like that as a coach.
You have to remember, Green scored 30 goals and 70 points before dealing with injuries the past two seasons. That’s rare air for a defenseman, even one in a run-n-gun offense.
Right, you still want a Green. Particularly a cheap one.
Yeah, and that’s a skill you really want one or two of your defensemen to have. It just happens to get them rich like Brian Campbell (or Ehrhoff), which is a bit out of whack, but hey, like you say it’s still a rare skill.
I guess they have to hope de Haan has that with his mobility, passing and movement, because the man-on-NHL man defense is probably going to take a while.
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Can you imagine any other business doing this?
You have a group of people who love the game so much they are willing to come out and watch a 6 month old replay of a game from the 5th worst team in the league and they actually want to stop it? Are they insane? Shouldn’t they be pushing the other 29 teams to do something similar…get the fans excited about their teams right before camp?
It’s Bizarro World.
No Sleep 'til....
by Anarcurt on Aug 16, 2011 1:51 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
Bizarro World is right
I can’t believe they’d bat an eye about a team organizing (one of many) summer meet-ups if someone of influence weren’t whining.
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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, they didn't want trouble and they started Johnson in net? What? lol
by OzzyFan on Aug 16, 2011 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Both of them got drubbed in that game
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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by mikb on Aug 16, 2011 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Stop whining
Unless you are an Islander, or an Islander fan, you can’t begin to understand how important that game was. It was the first time in years that a statement was made, that the Isles will not be the league’s doormat anymore. Darren McCarty is a hockey god in Detroit…and not because of goals scored. Its because he dragged Claude Lemieux to the boards. Lesson learned the hard way. Detroit fans don’t care, and we don’t care what anyone else thinks about that Pittsburgh game. Get over it. And buckle up your chin straps.
I love the part when
…Roy comes charging out of his net to defend Lemieux and then Brenden Shananigan collides in mid air with Roy. That is when the NHL decided, “This will be the man who will fix our disciplinary problems.”
by North Dakota Red Eagle on Aug 16, 2011 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions
this just in
#NHL ‘looking into’ re-running of Canada Cup game where Clarke two-handed Varlamov and broke his ankle.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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That's really going down a memory lane.
I’m guessing you meant Kharlamov .
Dammit
Yes, I did. Though honestly, I wouldn’t put it past Bobby Clarke to go after poor Semyen the next time he’s on vacation in Colorado.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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by mikb on Aug 16, 2011 5:30 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Haha
NOW we know why it took so long for them to release the Summit Series on DVD!!
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I cant wait
To see the reaction from cry baby Penguins fans…..
when we have David Steckel/Victor Hedamn appreciation night followed by the 24 hour replay of Matt Cooke gets knocked out by Evander Kane show ;)
Seriously, stop it NHL, and Penguins get off the cross, you have already been given the gifts of Mario and Crosby and still you whine.
MSG can edit out the shenanigans if they'd like to
and the Isle faithful would still show up to watch. Take out the Gillies ugliness and even Haley’s attempt to even DP’s score with Johnson and it’s still the best game of the year by far. This was a 9-3 whooping of a top Eastern team, putting goonery aside.
True that
When I think of Haley fights from last year, I still think of him punking Avery first. When I think of him in this Pens game, I think of the “WTF did I just see?!” mad dash goal he scored for his first NHL goal in his first game of the season and, what, third or so NHL game ever?
There’s a lot to enjoy from the game even if you remove every fight.
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by Dominik on Aug 16, 2011 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
No Doubt about Avery
You know Avery figured he had the size on Haley so he was willing to dance, which is rare for Avery. Apparantly Sonny Liston was the same way. Would only fight boxers he know he could destroy….was scared shit of Ali, or Clay as he foolishly called him.
Interesting trivia
That must be why I could never win with Liston against my nephew in whatever today’s version of Punchout is.
That, and my nephew’s played more video games in the last month than I have in my entire life — and I played a lot through the ’90s!
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by Fabtraption on Aug 17, 2011 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions
exactly....
There were so many things other than the Gillies “incident” that made it a memorable game and definitely that Haley goal was a beaut.
And the pic used above of Haley is my wallpaper on my computer at work…..I wish MSG would just replay that fight over and over again for 24 hours like TNT does at Christmas with A Christmas Story.
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Fighting, kinda like hash in Amsterdam
Jules: Okay, now, tell me about the hash bars NHL.
Vincent: So what you want to know?
Jules: Well, hash fighting is legal there, right?
Vincent: Yeah, it’s legal, but it ain’t a hundred percent legal. I mean, you can’t walk into a restaurant, roll a joint, and start puffin’ away revel in it publicly. They want you to smoke enjoy fighting in your home or certain designated places.
Jules: Those are hash bars arenas in Pittsburgh?
Vincent: Breaks down like this, okay: it’s legal to buy engage in it, it’s legal to own encourage it, and if you’re the proprietor of a hash bar a Pittsburgh hockey club, it’s legal to sell build your lineup around it. It’s illegal to carry partake in for lower ranking teams, but that doesn’t really matter ‘cause get a load of this, all right; if you get stopped by the cops refs in Amsterdam Pittsburgh, it’s illegal frowned upon for them to search you penalize the home team. I mean, that’s a right the cops lowly players in Amsterdam Uniondale don’t have.
Jules: [laughing] Oh, man. I’m going, that’s all there is to it. I’m fucking going
by 4PeatSake on Aug 16, 2011 8:03 PM EDT reply actions 6 recs
Outstanding!
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by Keith Quinn on Aug 16, 2011 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Dude, that is beautiful
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I dig it the most
Montoya: I don’t wanna hear about no motherf’k’n ifs. All I wanna hear from your ass is, You ain’t got no problem, goalie. I’m on the motherf’k’r. Go back in there, chill them boys out and wait for the cavalry, which should be coming directly.
Capuano: You ain’t got no problem, goalie. I’m on the motherf’k’r. Go back in there, chill them boys out and wait for Michael Grabner, who should be coming directly.
Montoya: Well, shiiiiit, Cappy, that’s all you had to say!
Grabner: OK… the other goalie’s twelve seconds away. I’ll be there in three.
:::scores goal:::
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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by mikb on Aug 17, 2011 2:29 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
EXcellent coda
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when is the game going to air?
anyone have that air date for the game
by LETS GO ISLANDERS!!! on Aug 17, 2011 8:37 PM EDT reply actions
BTW
not for notting but the pens came at the iles trying to start shit all game after it got out of reach for them, the iles just didnt let them push them around
by LETS GO ISLANDERS!!! on Aug 17, 2011 8:41 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Shhhhh...
Don’t tell the Pens or the NHL that. They won’t hear of it.
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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.
1980-81
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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.
1981-82
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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.
1982-83
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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.
