brendan-witt Stories - Lighthouse Hockey
Blade Splinters: Assaults, assailants and boo-boos
A lovely laxative of links from around the Island, SBN and beyond: Chris Botta decrees that we not expect to see Islanders 2008 first-rounder Josh Bailey in the NHL lineup this season. [Update: Yet Bailey has been "activated."] If they were so high on Bailey out of camp, why not let him get the...
Last-place Isles host not-last Rangers
(Couldn't bear to call it "first place." Not now...) The first episode of 2008-09's Islanders-Rangers opera comes at a rough time for the Isles. First, the Rangers (per family tradition, we may call them Short Island Smurfs from time to time) lead the conference -- and only partly thanks to the...
Stars Rebound to Dump Islanders
This one was all about the Stars. (Did I say, "Fear Brunnstrom"? Silly rabbit, I meant Mike Ribeiro. That's the ticket.) Needing to bounce back after a 5-0 beating the previous night in New Jersey, the Stars resisted an early Islanders surge, converted their first powerplay, and took off from...
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