IBO Boxing Honesty and Integrity
(This is the concluding part of a six-part series celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Stanley Cup Champions: here are parts one, two, three, four, and five). The 1981 Stanley Cup Final pitted the New York Islanders against the upstart Minnesota North Stars: the league’s defending champion as well and top regular ...
Read More »IslesBlog Says Goodbye to the Coliseum: Part 3
It’s still hard to believe that the New York Islanders playoff run is over, and it’s even harder to fathom that Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum has hosted its final game. This year’s team brought back a lot of memories for the Isles fanbase. For the younger generation, it finally gave ...
Read More »IslesBlog Says Goodbye to the Coliseum: Part 2
It’s still hard to believe that the New York Islanders playoff run is over, and it’s even harder to fathom that Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum has hosted its final game. This year’s team brought back a lot of memories for the Isles fanbase. For the younger generation, it finally gave ...
Read More »IslesBlog Says Goodbye to the Coliseum: Part 1
It’s still hard to believe that the New York Islanders playoff run is over, and it’s even harder to fathom that Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum has hosted its final game. This year’s team brought back a lot of memories for the Isles fanbase. For the younger generation, it finally gave ...
Read More »Greenberg: Evaluating the Islanders’ season a week after it ended
It’s been six days since the Islanders left the Amalie Arena ice after a gut-wrenching 1-0 loss in game seven. While the sting of the season ending is still relatively fresh, exit interviews have been completed so it’s time to take a look back at the season as a whole. ...
Read More »Bentivenga: Five takeaways from the Islanders semifinal loss to The Lightning
For the second straight postseason, the New York Islanders and Tampa Bay Lightning battled it out for a chance to go to the Stanley Cup Finals. Unfortunately, this postseason ended exactly like last year’s… in heartbreak for the Isles. Congratulations to the Lightning, again. They have an amazing team that ...
Read More »Simpson: Islanders Take It To the Limit One More Time: A Retrospective
The New York Islanders will travel to Tampa Bay to face the Lightning this Friday in what is the franchise’s 14th playoff series that has gone the limit. Series-deciding games are unusual: in Islanders history, they are rare if nevertheless memorable. So, as the Islanders and their fans look forward ...
Read More »A Matter of Perspective: On Game 7 and Taking in the View
The Islanders are one win away from the Stanley Cup Final. Eleven words I never, ever thought I’d write, type, or express in any form whatsoever. It’s exhilarating, perplexing, and, above all, nerve-wracking. For those of us who did not experience the dynastic era, this is the closest we’ve ever ...
Read More »IslesBlog Roundtable: X-Factors in Stanley Cup Semifinals Rematch
After shocking NHL analysts and models in their six game series victory over the Boston Bruins, the Islanders face even more outrageous odds against the reigning Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning. Models across the league give the Islanders roughly a 30% chance to win the series, something that has ...
Read More »Farieri: Seven Game Changers for the Islanders/Bruins Series
The Old Barn isn’t done yet as the New York Islanders eliminated the Boston Bruins in six games to force at least two more home games at Fort Neverlose. For the second straight series, the blue and orange proved another one of my predictions wrong. I had Boston ousting the ...
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