“YOUR MOTHER WEARS COMBAT BOOTS.” | Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images This stupid league. The NHL playoffs are going to be an ugly, anticlimactic mess if that’s what passes for goalie interference. We are going to have another Brett Hull 1999 toe-in-the-crease OT moment in a high-stakes, made-for-TV game that goes phhhhhht because this league, in the year of our Bossy … [Read more...] about Islanders News: Palmieri calls it like he sees it
Islanders Gameday: Another wild card foe arrives
Look out, Pierre is watching you. | Photo by Mike Stobe/NHLI via Getty Images The chase continues, but the Blue Jackets aim to stand in the way. As good as the Islanders’ results have been this month, they are still digging themselves out of their early season hole and still have to keep up this pace and then some to pull off another late-season run to the wild … [Read more...] about Islanders Gameday: Another wild card foe arrives
Islanders Anxiety – Episode 327 – You Can’t Kill This Team
Seriously: Who are these guys? Mike and Dan discuss the Islanders’ latest point streak and unlikely reappearance in the Eastern Conference playoff race. With a makeshift lineup full of forgotten players and total nobodies, the Islanders have risen from the ashes through hard work and (finally) a little luck. They came from behind to beat the Penguins, toppled the Habs in … [Read more...] about Islanders Anxiety – Episode 327 – You Can’t Kill This Team
Flames 4, Islanders 3 (OT): Isles manage just a point after giving up late lead
Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images While the three-game win streak comes to an end, the Isles still maintain their five-game point streak with the OT loss. Well, there were a lot of positives to takeaway from this one despite the result. Max Tsyplakov, who’s been in a bit of a late-season rut, picked up two primary assists this afternoon on some great passes. Noah … [Read more...] about Flames 4, Islanders 3 (OT): Isles manage just a point after giving up late lead
Islanders sign NCAA free agent forward Gleb Veremyev of Colorado College
See you soon-ish? | Photo by Zac BonDurant/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A large Jersey boy joins the pipeline. The New York Islanders have signed another NCAA free agent, inking forward Gleb Veremyev of Colorado College to a two-year entry level contract that takes effect nexxt season. A New Jersey native and son of immigrants from Russia, Veremeyev just completed … [Read more...] about Islanders sign NCAA free agent forward Gleb Veremyev of Colorado College