Try the Wine...

http://islanders.nhl.com/team/app?articleid=358839&page=NewsPage&service=page

For those of you who don't go through the Islanders main website to get to this page, I've added the link for the special event taking place today in Farmingdale.

I had heard about the NHL Alumni wines many months ago while listening to Canadian sports talk radio. You can find the most amazing, useless, information on the NHL and it's affiliate organizations by doing so, which basically turns you into the Hockey geek that I have become. But some of the info is pretty interesting.

The good thing is most of the work the affiliate organizations do is for a good cause. Some for the good of the NHLers, past and present, and some for those less fortunate. The charity golf outings, the fund raisers, the old-timers events, and even the foundations set-up by players that we rarely hear about are all little things that make the NHL and it's members very special.

Pat LaFontaine is one of the largest charity contributors from our area to have come out of the NHL. His Partners in Courage foundation is well established and flourishing and he always finds new ways of funding his efforts. Did any of us actually really even KNOW Clark Gillies had his own charity organization? Probably not.

So check out the event, or the website and order some wine and help a few good causes.

I'll check back later to tell you how the event went today, and the Blog Box review of the Chardonnay and Cab Sauv.