Thomas Greiss. I fucking love you bud. Dealing with the Sorokin situation. Taking a backseat to Varlamov in these playoffs. But you were ready tonight and you came up big. You'll always be an Islander.
In this fucked up world, these uncertain times, this depressing era of time....this team left their families behind and gave us a hell of a fucking run. I have never been prouder to be a fan of this team.
Going from Garth Snow and Doug Weight to Lou Lamoriello and Barry Trotz is the biggest upgrade in the history of upgrades. Literally like going from a toothless crack addict hobo to Mila Kunis. Unreal.
One quick note for those coming to the airport later: these players have been away from their family for two months. Don’t go near them. Matt Martin is not going to give covid to his 2 month old baby because Francesca from Massapequa tried getting too close
Year 1: Jack Adams
Year 2: Conference final, lost to eventual champs
Year 3: Conference final, lost to eventual champs
Year 4: Fired
This is the NY Islanders we’re talking about. His first 3 seasons were the best 3 seasons in my 28 years on this fucking planet
As a final note, Robin Lehner is a fucking inspiration. I hate that his season ended the way it did. You inspired so many people, you are so brave, and no matter what happens I will root for you anywhere you go. But please stay.
@RobinLehner
Thank you Nick Leddy. That one Saturday in September of 2014 where we acquired him and Boychuk changed the perception of this franchise. Let your beautiful beard rage in Detroit.
I’m 25 years old. 26 in October. This team has never delivered this amount of happiness in my life. This is the shining moment for a while generation of Isles fans. We survived Joey MacDonald and Jesse Joensuu. We deserve this.
Been 3-4 years since the Isles fanbase has been this energized. The change in management and coaching, the team performing way above expectations, the return to Long Island. Being an Islanders fan is fun again
I couldn't share this picture earlier because we were losing 3-0 but now that we won...........HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Remember when Garth Snow protected Adam Pelech in the expansion draft and the consensus reaction including from me was "what the fuck?" Good times good times.
We're coming home. Sources tell IslesNation that the Isles have won the Belmont bid to return to Long Island in their own arena. Governor Cuomo to announce mid-week.
If Tavares plans on writing a PlayersTribune post thanking us, he could take that piece and shove it up his ass along with all his other quotes about how Long Island is home and how he wants to spend his whole career here. Lies.
Times like these make you love players like Josh Bailey and
@HDumpty39
who said they wanted to be an Islander for life and weren't blowing smoke up our ass.
The Islanders currently lead a series in the second round of the playoffs. I literally could not care less whether random people on Twitter think they are boring. You play to win. Winning is fun.
The Isles have allowed 3 goals in their last 5 games. This was the worst team in 10 NHL seasons last year in terms of goals against. Barry Trotz is love. Barry Trotz is life.
Three options here
A. Lou decided that he wasn’t worth 9.8m per year
B. Lou built a team that is less desirable to free agents than the Blue Jackets
C. Lou couldn’t sell a Jersey kid about why Long Island would be a better place to live than Ohio
All 3 are fireable offenses
All the best to Johnny Boychuk. The acquisition of him and Leddy on that Saturday in September pushed this franchise forward in a huge way. Sucks that his career has to end like this. Guy was a warrior.
Here’s a secret. Barry Trotz, one of the most successful coaches in the history of the NHL, played a boring defensive low event style with this team because he knew a more wide open system would quickly expose the extreme lack of talent in this roster
This was clearly over the crossbar.
Lee did not touch Georgiev in the goalie-interference review against NYR.
Both are literal facts.
Hate to be "that guy" but really think the
@NHL
might want Madison Square Garden in the playoffs over the "minor league arena" on LI.
You can’t spell Islanders without Anders. Congrats to MY CAPTAIN. Been weird not having a captain since Streit, but love this choice. Hopefully he signs on long term now
Hockey media and non-Isles fans who feel the need to insert their opinions on how Isles fans should feel about the Tavares situation; yesterday both Anthony Davis and Artemi Panarin showed how a situation like this should be handled. That’s all I felt like saying this morning
Absolutely shocked that a team that missed the playoffs by 16 points last year and did absolutely nothing except trading for a bottom pairing defenseman and firing their HOF coach fucking sucks