Daniel Friedman
I'm a columnist for the New York Islanders on The Hockey Writers. I hail from West Hempstead, NY, I'm a Senior at Queens College and work at NBC Sports Network. Follow me on Twitter @DFriedmanNHL
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With Isles' Season On the Line, Time for Nabokov to Shine
May 10th, 2013 It has indeed come down to the wire, folks. All the hard work, the gutsy come-from-behind wins, the never-say-die performances, they have all led to this moment. For the New York Islanders, they need to win tomorrow night or else they'll have to wait until October to get another shot. This has been a banner year for the Isles,...
Never Say Die: After Six Long Years, Islanders Finally Playoff-Bound
April 24th, 2013 It's been six years -- six long years -- since the New York Islanders made their last playoff appearance. To be more precise, it's been six years and four days since their Game Five loss to the Buffalo Sabres on April 20, 2007; a loss that sent them packing and set in motion a sequence of events that would prove to be...
New York Islanders Continue to Dazzle As Bailey, Hickey Continue to Grow
April 12th, 2013 Red-hot. Scorching. Sizzling. Torrid. If you were looking for the adjectives that come closest to describing the New York Islanders over their last several games, those would be 'em. The Isles have taken their fans on some kind of wild ride lately and everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon. As I tweeted the other day, they...
New York Islanders: Team's Core Lies Deeper than First Line
March 20th, 2013 The New York Islanders are 5-2-1 in March, and a significant reason behind that has been the performances of some of the role players and the way they've stepped up. If I had to pick one term that best describes what the line of Matt Martin, Casey Cizikas and Colin McDonald has meant to the Islanders this year, it would be...
New York Islanders Must Fire Jack Capuano to Take Next Step
February 28th, 2013 It's been six years since the New York Islanders last qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Isles have had five top-five draft selections, one of which was traded for a ninth-overall pick (Josh Bailey, 2008) in that span. This team and its fans have seen the inconceivable; be it a game in which the team scores...
Mythbusters: New York Islanders Edition
February 22nd, 2013 Things just never gets boring in Islander Country. Rick DiPietro was finally placed on waivers, marking the end of an era. The Isles wanted to give him one last hurrah and a shortened-season was the perfect situation for them to do so. DiPietro showed the front office and coaching staff all they needed to see during his...
