FIG Picks: Islanders vs. Hurricanes, Jan. 21, 7 p.m.
Select the First Islanders Goal (FIG) for the game in this thread. If you're new to this, here are the instructions. Remember: 1) Picks must be in before puck drop. 2) You only get one pick (unless you learn your guy is scratched and change your pick before faceoff).
Season leaders are usually noted at the end of the last FIG thread.
The leaderboard tops out with:
31 - Captdallas
23 - skeeterman
22 - Pretty Good Idiot
My chances of catching up now are similar to the Islanders' playoff hopes.
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Dominik
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Moulson (Tavares, Okposo) 19:00
[NOTE: This is actually Russell G.‘s pick. I’m entering it for him since he’s otherwise detained this weekend.]
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
Moulson (Okposo, Tavares) 4:23
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock...
by Turgeon1992 on Jan 20, 2012 10:27 PM EST up reply actions
Moulson(taveras, Striet) 14:00
Any task BIG or small, Do it well or not at all
by Rickfansince76 on Jan 21, 2012 8:11 AM EST up reply actions
Moulson ( Striet, Taveras) 21:21
The way this is going the Captain of the next Cup contending Islanders team is still in grade school......RESULTS DO MATTER..
Moulson (tavares, PAP) 16:27
by The boogieman on Jan 21, 2012 6:10 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Moulson (Hamonic, Tavares) 7:17 - PPG
Extra point for declaring it to be a PPG goal?
You should've seen her face. It was the exact same look my father gave me when I told him I wanted to be a ventriloquist.
Duly noted, Dom.
Yet another Moulson brother-in-law.
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Jan 21, 2012 5:04 PM EST up reply actions
Okposo (Tavares, Streit) 12:02
(This one is my actual pick. Enter any Okposo picks in reply to this one.)
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
Okposo (tavares, moulson) 14:20
Still waiting for a GOZO
by BobbyNystromOwnsYou on Jan 21, 2012 6:13 PM EST up reply actions
Okposo (Tavares, Moulson) 6.66
I call it the 666 line…Beast Line….KO is due for a finish…
Martin (Streit, Bailey) 17:21
Do we get any awards if we can successfully go through the entire season, picking a FIG every night, and ending with zero points? Cause I think I got that shit in the bag.
Nino(Reese, Wallace) 7:11
Because I just wrote a 500+ word “why I think Nino should have benn sent to Portland” post… and I want to cash in on the bad (or is that good?) juju!
I've had enough! It's time to call out Garth Snow!
@JPinVA
Niederreiter (Pandolfo, Jurcina) 9:16
I can get behind this thinking…
Success was survival and, kid, it still is
by IslesFanInNJ on Jan 21, 2012 9:16 AM EST up reply actions
Niedereitter (pandalfo, Macdonald) 1940
Rolston getting quality minutes....Nino rotting on the 4th line. Thats why I love this team.
Niederreiter (Streit, Wallace) 12:00
"If you have what you say you have, I’ll make you rich. If you don’t, I’ll make you into shoes" Jim Moriarty 1/1/2012
Tavares (Moulson, Hamonic) 13:31
OH YEAH!!!
by the maroon bird on Jan 21, 2012 10:09 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Tavares (Moulson) 0:13
Yet another Moulson brother-in-law.
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Jan 21, 2012 5:05 PM EST up reply actions
Tavares (Okposo, Hamonic) 15:35
A fan since '75 when Eddie Westfall gave me his KOHO stick after practice at Racquet & Rink in Farmingdale.
Grabner (Nielsen, Hamonic) 10:00
Damn, captdallas! Tell the truth: are you Jack Capuano?
"He's depriving some small village of a pretty good idiot" - Mike Milbury on Ziggy Palffy's agent. On Twitter: @Dan_of_Science
by PGI on Jan 21, 2012 12:22 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Grabner (Bailey, Martin) 14:22
In loving memory;Dad thanks for making us Islanders fans, ACC 1918-2011
Grabner (Nielsen, Parenteau) 15:51
"Seriously that's the last time you guys f#@%ing won?" -RSH (about beating the Penguins in '93)
Okposo (Tavares, Hamonic) 3:17
3 Teams 3 Different Sports Same Torture!!!
by Kung Fu Panda 48 on Jan 21, 2012 12:19 PM EST reply actions
Moulson (Striet, Tavares) 9:13
the tip in!
Wondering if the Islanders will start calling their goalies Cerberus...
Twatter! @crehm91(be my disciple?)
Parenteau (Nielsen, Hamonic) 7:15
Making the drive to the Collo tonight. Hoping to go 2-0 on the season. Would be better than my 0-3 last season watching the isles live.
Take em to the jabrone-zone
by IslesJabronie on Jan 21, 2012 4:06 PM EST up reply actions
Wallace ( Silent Bob Pandolfo, Nabokov) 5:15
If this happens, I’m driving to Arizona to play Powerball!
"This season is a serious misallocation of valuable hockey resources"- Saving Private Tavares
FIG will be updated on Monday afternoon.
Contributor for Lighthouse Hockey. Definitely neither the Sniper nor the Enforcer.
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Jan 21, 2012 9:45 PM EST reply actions
FIG Results
Bryville19 and Dougtone are our big winners, netting four points each (Bryville getting closest time and Dougtone getting both assists right).
mike in mi, SJG in NJ, and vrwc each gets three points, and the following contestants each got two:
Captdallas
ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles
the maroon bird
cunch punch (first time winner!)
And the updated standings are:
33 - Captdallas
23 - skeeterman
22 - Pretty Good Idiot
21 - mike in mi
18 - Bryville19
16 - BaltimoreIslander
16 - barry_hal_oliver_24
16 - Bryan2112
15 - SJG in NJ
15 - the maroon bird
15 - BobbyNystromOwnsYou
14 - Furkmyster
14 - Russel Ginart
13 - Dougtone
13 - ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles
12 - vrwc
12 - Bepfront
12 - bossy2219
12 - martylnd
12 - meigs1414
11 - andrew430
11 - Dr. Copp
11 - Jones79
11 - Rickfansince76
10 - rockhouse15
9 - IslesJabronie
8 - JPinVA
8 - Paumanok
7 - edavidmorris
7 - KO21
7 - themass
6 - Binghamton Islanders
6 - dunnowhat2type
6 - Francesca
6 - Kaonashi
6 - Zeike
5 - billymac
5 - CharlieIsles
5 - Dorfer
5 - IslesFanInNJ
5 - Pilon power
4 - afrosupreme
4 - Bigredcc
4 - GT66
4 - ilopan
4 - IslesguyinDallas
4 - nyisles1974
4 - Turgeon1992
4 - Ukiddinme
3 - 7:11_OT
3 - DarthDoyle
3 - mikefromVA
3 - mrs. mike in mi
2 - cunch punch
2 - 19 Isle in NJ 22
2 - Dominik
2 - FB4Real
2 - FireGarthSnow
2 - FLYERBOB
2 - IslesinAZ
2 - kfallon2
2 - Lakewood Islander
2 - Martys301
2 - Metalstar
2 - Mulligan
2 - Nomore_Okposto
2 - North Dakota Red Eagle
2 - Nova Scotia Isles Fan
2 - O.Bender
2 - since70too
2 - The Danish Backhand of Judgement
Contributor for Lighthouse Hockey. Definitely neither the Sniper nor the Enforcer.
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Jan 23, 2012 6:40 PM EST 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.
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.
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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.
