Challenging the Hummer Challenge.

It’s 10:15 pm, and I can’t help but jump on the anti-MSG band-wagon. I have to tell you though, since Sunday afternoon, that wagon is standing-room only. I’m sure the entire Islander Country let out one huge expletive when it was “announced” the Rangers, with their one point for the regulation tie, had won the Hummer Metro Challenge. After I stopped throwing pillows at the big screen in the living room, I kept looking at the numbers. I didn’t quite get it. Numbers aren’t supposed to lie. The Devils were of no consequence, but somehow it still looked like the NY Islanders had won the challenge. I chalked it up to the truck giving someone on air the wrong info through their earpiece.

And then it happened… the internet lit up like a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. The comments, the emails, the blogs, hit the net fast and furious like a wildfire through California. Here was just another way for the Islander/Ranger rivalry to become even more intense, passionate and down-right UGLY. By some convoluted twist of fair-play, the $50,000 charity prize was to go to the NY Rangers' charity, whatever that is. Did anyone in the media business actually think that Islander Country would sit idly by and let that happen?

Hey! A tie is a tie, and this is for charity. Let the teams split the prize and everyone goes home happy. Award it to the rightful winner (you know the one who actually won more games WITHIN the competition) and most people will be happy. Award it to the team that should have rightfully lost, and you will have a firestorm on your hands that will rival the Richard Riot. (Oh look, a hockey history reference.) We’re Islander fans…. We’ve got plenty of time on our hands right now. And we all have computers and know how to use them.

According to today’s 1st Point Blank entry (http://nyipointblank.blogspot.com/), a proper resolution might have been announced tonight on air. It failed to come. As this may be a legal issue, I’m willing to give them another 24 hours. If it doesn’t come…. We shall release the internet Pitbulls. And I warn you… we're a little hungry right now.