With the New York Islanders having secured a playoff berth for the first time since the last day of the 2006-2007 NHL regular season, hockey fans must be wondering how the upstart team will fare in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. It has been an even two decades since the New York ...
All that we ask for is a chance. That goes for anything in life. Few people gave the New York Islanders any hope or prayer in making the playoffs. Yet, it seemed like every single transaction helped. Sometimes you really cannot make this up if one even tried. DraftKings Noticed The Rising On Long Island All anyone ...
Back in 2010, Garth Snow started a fairly successful trend that Islanders fans couldn’t have seen coming. Not many Islanders fans could have predicted that players such as Evgeni Nabokov and Michael Grabner would have developed into key pieces for a team that was rebuilding through the NHL Draft, but Snow didn’t stop the pillaging ...
With the Islanders having passed the halfway mark of the season, many hockey fans might not have expected to see New York three points out of the Eastern Conference playoff picture. Even though the Islanders have been inconsistent over their first 26 games of the season, they have shown an ability to play at a ...
There was a time, not so long ago, when the most heated rivalry in all of sports took place on a sheet of ice. Take the Yankees-Red Sox, Lakers-Celtics, and perhaps the Cowboys and Redskins and pour some gasoline over those traditionally ugly clashes. That will give you a sense of what the New York ...
In the era of in-depth analysis, sabermetrics and advanced statistics, fantasy hockey managers are trying to find unique and more complicated ways to beat the opposition and win their fantasy drafts. A theory that emerged a few years ago on the Internet, most notably on Dobber, is that offensive forwards tend to breakout in their fourth ...
The Islanders dropped their opening night game against the Devils at home 2-1. The game started on a surprise note when it was revealed that coach Jack Capuano would have to miss the game due to sudden surgery due to kidney stones. Dough Weight took his place for the night. The Isles struggled to mount ...
We’re back! After much wait, the NHL and NHLPA finally reached an agreement that would bring NHL hockey back to the masses. While hockey fans are probably ecstatic over this new resolution, many are probably wondering what impacts a lockout shortened season will have on their respective teams, and New York Islanders fans aren’t any ...
In 1984’s The Muppets Take Manhattan, audiences were left with their hearts in there throats when the gang disbanded after failing to get there college variety show up on Broadway. A melancholy musical number with lyrics such as, “Saying goodbye, why is it sad? / Make us remember the good times we’ve had/ Much more ...
As the Summer Olympics are currently taking place in London, now is the perfect time to read about them. So why not bring hockey into the equation, and think about all the similarites between the two?
