IBO Boxing Honesty and Integrity
The All Star break has come and gone, and now it’s back to business for the Islanders. Tuesday nights’ game started a stretch of 35 games in the next 68 nights to end the season. For the first time this season, they met the Minnesota Wild for a showdown. The ...
Read More »Buy or Sell: January Edition
Thomas Vitkowski is a CPA who is a panel member on CNBC’s Investor Round Table and former longtime Islanders Season Ticket Holder. January was an odd schedule month for the Islanders, a 10 game schedule with barely any travel which was reduced to 9 with the weather related cancellation against ...
Read More »John Tavares Wins Shooting Accuracy Competition (Video)
New York Islanders captain John Tavares won the Accuracy Shooting Competition at the 2016 NHL All Star Game on Saturday night. As trivial as the NHL All Star Game and its festivities may appear, it’s no small feat to win the accuracy shooting competition. New York Islanders captain John Tavares ...
Read More »The 5 Hole: Seeing Too Much Red
The Islanders have been playing some good hockey as of late, and with one game left before the all star break, they needed to go in strong. After not getting to play Saturday night, tonight the Isles were faced with that task. Opposing them was another tough opponent in the ...
Read More »The 5 Hole: SENSational Effort
It felt like forever, but finally after a five day break, Islanders hockey was finally back. They took their strong recent play into the capital city of Canada, Ottawa for a showdown with the Ottawa Senators. The two teams met earlier in the season with the Sens getting a 3-2 ...
Read More »The 5 Hole: Point Taken
Sunday’s at Barclays Center have been a new experience for the Isles and their fans, and the game they saw yesterday was no different. Coming off one of their biggest wins of the season against the Rangers, the Islanders met the Vancouver Canucks in what turned out to be an ...
Read More »The 5 Hole: Flipping the Script on Broadway
The Rangers and Islanders met for the second time this season, and just like the first match-up, the game lived up to the expectations. Both teams have not been playing their best hockey as of late, so anytime a win against your rival can come along, it can change your ...
Read More »The 5 Hole: Shot Out of a Cannon
It’s tough times in Islander Country, and the Isles keep taking bullet after bullet. Those bullets aren’t just being put through the roster, but also where the team sits in the Metro and Eastern Conference. With the Rangers coming into Brooklyn Thursday, the team needed to get their confidence back ...
Read More »Can John Tavares Score 500 Goals?
You may have decided to boycott hockey this weekend after the Islanders lifeless 4-0 loss in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon. If you did, you missed Washington’s Alexander Ovechkin become the 42nd player and first Russian player in NHL history to score 500 goals with a classic Ovi Power Play goal against the ...
Read More »The 5 Hole: Bullied on Broad Street
41 games down, 41 to go. This afternoon, the Isles began their assault on the second half of the season in the “City of Brotherly Love”, Philadelphia. Last time the Isles were there, they escaped with a 4-3 win in the shootout. It was the second time the teams met ...
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