Takes

Beware the Isles of March. This magic carpet ride of a season has hit some serious turbulence this month. The Metropolitan Divison? Long Gone. Home ice in the first round? Slipping Away. Making the Stanley Cup Playoffs? Stay Tuned. You know what hasn’t happened at the Coliseum in March? An ...

Nate “Igor” Smith says his intention wasn’t to slander a fan base, rather he was just pissed and felt the need to rant and get it all off his chest. The 34 year old native of Alexandria, VA now living in Brooklyn never imagined the combination of backlash and support his ...

As of this afternoon, the It Happened At The Coliseum campaign has raised a remarkable$31,190.96 for Make-A-Wish Metro New York. The success is more than we at IslesBlog and statistician Eric Hornick ever imagined, but perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised. The connection Islanders fans have with Long Island and the ...

You know that Best of Seven Islanders-Rangers series hockey fans have been clamoring for all season? The series that would end the ‘nobody cares about hockey’ mantra? The series that would put hockey on the back pages? It can still happen … in the First Round. Perhaps they won’t admit it, ...

Well, it took 23 years, but I finally have met my match. The ultimate Ranger fan. Doesn’t know any of those buster’s names from the past. The Kasparaitis’, the Ashams, and certainly not the Valiquettes. Just knows the same three names as everyone else in Manhattan. Gretzky, Leetch, and Lundqvist, and ...

Following yesterday’s big news, Isles TV, and less importantly Greg Picker, caught up with Johnny Boychuk to hear his thoughts on the new deal worth $42Mil over the next 7 years. A few comments made by the Isles newest defenseman stuck out to me, firstly; “Just being how good we are. We’re hard working, we’re ...

In the midst of an exciting season, with a busy trade deadline, and something people like to call a playoff berth; in between the talks of when Kyle Okposo will return, or Whether JT will win the Hart, the Art Ross, or both, I see very little comments on what I ...

Okay, today was intense. First we were like, “WE WANT A TRADE!” and then we were like, “Okay I guess they really aren’t trading.” and THEN we were like “ohmuhgud dey making all teh tradez!” Bye, I’m Chad Johnson On the larger side of today’s activities, we saw Chad Johnson be dealt to Buffalo ...

Lets Talk Conditional Picks. In this case, let’s talk about one specific conditional pick, and that’s the 7th rounder that got the team Tyler Kennedy. The 7th round pick in 2015 becomes a 6th rounder if the Islanders win the Stanley Cup with Kennedy playing in at least half of ...

Earlier in the week @NetsDaily reported that the Barclays Center had applied to trademark two separate “Brooklyn Hockey” logos. The article got its views, the tweets got their retweets, and Isles fans took to the web to voice their displeasure with a move that seemed to be giving fans a look ...