Welcoming the New Kid

If you can't make it to the Coliseum for the 12:30 pm introduction of John Tavares, be sure to log onto the main website of the NY Islanders and catch it live from ITV.

This is the day Islanders Country had waited for. So be sure to check it out.

Getting the Story Right!

Does Newsday really want to let the blogosphere get it right when their trained journalists can't?
I'm beginning to wonder.

There were errors and omissions in Monday's Lighthouse reporting. Check my post at HockeyBuzz about TODAY'S town meeting to vote on the completeness of the Lighthouse developers DGEIS.

Also check on Nick's post for other directions and information about today's proceedings.

And for my take on the sentencing of fourth round draft pick Casey Cizikas, please read my post entitled "The Next Chris Simon."

Have a great day.

It's Salary Arbitration Time Again!

Yuck. This is the time when things can get ugly.

Nate Thompson is the only Islander who has filed for arbitration. I hope he knows what he's in for. But it can effect the NHL and other's contracts down the road.

Check my article on HockeyBuzz since I can't seem to copy and paste any longer into Blogger.

It's 6 am. I've been up since 4 and I look like a poster-child for Solarcaine. This is not a good morning.

Hope yours is better.

Happy Fourth of July Long Island

For some reason, Blogger won't let me copy and paste into it from my own word documents. BUMMER!!!

So please check out my latest entry on HockeyBuzz until I figure out what the hell is wrong with Blogger.

Guerin, Stanley, Nolan

Awwweee... It's always nice to wake up at an un-godly hour and see a nice little story that makes you smile, and Point Blank always manages to find them. So it seems that ex-NY Islander Bill Guerin will bring the Stanley Cup to Long Island. Nice of him to do so since we haven't been able to do it ourselves in what? Twenty-five years? But I'm not sure if anyone other than his kids and their friends will be spending any time with it. At least it will see the LIE again.

The bigger question for the Guerin family should be... where are you going to live next season Billy? Have you put your Long Island home up for sale yet? Great guys like you are hard to come by. Sorry to see you go.

So Ted Nolan has landed himself another job in hockey now that his NY Islanders pay checks have ceased. Hockey Ops? Are you SERIOUS? I like Ted Nolan. He's an affable guy with a great smile and a good heart. But his office skills seemed to be less than adequate. During his time on Long Island, he wasn't one to stay in the loop well.

A few times I would find him at a practice, go ask him a question about something that I knew was going on and he'd say "We are?" Now, perhaps this was just a charming rouse to engage me in conversation, but my gut feeling was he really had no clue.

Good lucky Teddy. I hope you've quit smoking by now.

Does Your NHL Prospect Twitter?

Let me know if you're newest prospect has told the press he twitters or not!
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