Remember #OkieForSochi? Time for Isles fans to come up with a new and clever Kyle Okposo hashtag for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. USA Hockey named Los Angeles Kings GM Dean Lombardi to serve as the team’s GM on Thursday and with that announcement, an early projection of the ...
Read More »Movin' Out: Billy Joel, Islanders Fans Close Out The Coliseum
Billy Joel shut the doors on the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Tuesday Night with his 32nd and final show at the arena, a personal and powerful three plus hour performance that rocked the Old Barn one final time. The concert, his first at the Coliseum since 1998, opened with Movin’ ...
Read More »NHL Partners With MLBAM, Won't Take Away Our Vines, GIFs and YouTube Videos!
When rumors started flying yesterday about the NHL partnering with MLB Advanced Media, I got nervous, I mean really nervous. You see, MLB Advanced Media is the best at what it does, MLB.com is sleek and fast, highlights are readily available, MLB Network program keeps getting better and better. As NHL Commissioner Gary ...
Read More »Take the Train in Vain: LIRR Adds Extra Service for Islanders Games at Barclays
If you are making the transition from a 15 minute car drive to a hour long haul on the LIRR to attend Islanders games this season, you probably recall this tweet from Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark last month indicating that changes were coming to LIRR service for games at Barclays ...
Read More »NHL's 30 in 30 Series: Cancel All Plans for Friday, August 21st
So, you thought the year end standings only determined the NHL Draft order? Oh no. You are sadly mistaken. It also determines when the NHL Network will put your favorite team in the spotlight for their 30 in 30 series. The Islanders finished 2014-15 with the 10th best record in the NHL, good enough to earn them ...
Read More »Ex-Islanders Defenseman Mathieu Schneider Elected to US Hockey Hall of Fame
Mathieu Schneider, the most well liked player (was competing with Kirk Muller) traded from the Montreal Canadiens to the Islanders for Pierre Turgeon and Vladamir Malakhov in 1995 has been elected to the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame class of 2015 . Schneider, born in New York, NY played parts of two seasons with ...
Read More »Home of the Islanders Sign Removed From Nassau Coliseum
The ice was removed, the banners taken down and packed away, but until yesterday, the Nassau Coliseum was still “Home of the New York Islanders” at least from the outside. This hurts a tad more than when “Home of the New York Dragons” was taken down several years back. Even ...
Read More »The YES! Chant Is In EA Sports' NHL 16
From Section 329 to EA Sports’ NHL 16, the “YES!” chant is now forever engrained in Islanders lure. What started as a Daniel Bryan inspired chant from the Blue & Orange Army quickly caught on and led to numerous tee shirts, hats and everyone from John Tavares to Jiggs McDonald “Yessing.” The ...
Read More »Visnovsky slated to return to Europe
Isles defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky, who is an unrestricted free agent, is reportedly mulling over starting the 2015-16 NHL season overseas.
Read More »Ten Ways of Looking at Joshua Ho-Sang
1. First glance Fans who made the trek to Brooklyn for the New York Islanders 2015 Blue and White Scrimmage likely came for one of the two following reasons: the tickets were a mere ten bucks, and an enigma, 19-year-old winger Joshua Ho-Sang, was skating the Barclays Center ice for ...
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