Lighthouse Hockey

Anders if you do that in practice you’re going to defeat the whole purpose here. | Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Another smaller, offensively oriented defenseman joins the fray. The injuries keep coming for the Islanders just as they are finally stringing some wins together, and now they’ve added a player who’s trying to get out from the shadow of his own … [Read more...] about Islanders Trade for Scott Perunovich as Ryan Pulock Placed on IR

You can’t hurt me anymore (in that uniform). | Photo by Josh Lavallee/NHLI via Getty Images The biggest story is that the Islanders have won six of their last eight games! Not some trade or anything like that... The New York Islanders beat the Philadelphia Flyers last night at UBS Arena. After embarrassing efforts leading to dropping the first two games of the … [Read more...] about Islanders Back-to-Back News: Tony D not even close to the biggest story

Money. | Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images A couple injuries shade the Islanders’ first four-game win streak of the season. The New York Islanders won their fourth consecutive game for the first time all season thanks to something equally rare for them, a victorious comeback from a 0-2 deficit. Brock Nelson scored the winner in OT to beat the Carolina Hurricanes, 3-2, … [Read more...] about Islanders 3, Hurricanes 2 (OT): Nelson caps comeback after injuries to Pulock, Hogberg

Tommy Söderström was a very, very bad goalie (at least, for the Islanders) Mike and Dan talk with IslesEbay master Craig Dixon about Tommy Söderström, the shambolic Swedish goalie who lost a lot of games in his short time as an Islander. Söderström parlayed international success into a stint with the Flyers, who sent him to Long Island in exchange for the pariah Ron Hextall. … [Read more...] about Weird Islanders: The Podcast! – Tommy Söderström (with guest Craig Dixon aka @IslesEbay)

As of today, one of these guys is an Islander. | Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images With Dobson and Reilly still out, the Isles go for the offensive-minded villain-in-a-box. Just in time to meet one of the former teams that turned on him, offensive-minded defenseman Tony DeAngelo has found a new NHL home with the New York Islanders for the rest of the season. The … [Read more...] about Islanders Gameday News: Isles sign Tony DeAngelo, that’ll fix it!