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New York Islander Fan Central | 8/18/2025 12:17:00 PM |
Mostly a quiet time as players likely here skating on their own or coming here for camp.
No offense to players, don't care if nice guys or not, it's about winning. I'm sure Hudson Fasching is a nice man, he did not help NYI win=goodbye.
The decisions about the team are largely made unless Darche receives an offer he thinks improves the team. Could happen/likeky not. Most former teams for players know when it's time to move a player, and mostly turn out to be correct. Yes, I'm writing about Jonathan Drouin. Yes, Anthony Duclair. We'll see when he's healthy but all those other teams hardly regret moving on from him. Yes, I was thrilled they got him, felt other teams were wrong.
Do I think Roy is a major problem, and just a medicore coach at best? Yes. I don't like going 0-4 against awful Rangers, and losing 9-2 to a franchise NYI owned for years with so-called worse coaches. Barry Trotz got fired with a better record than Roy. Do I think he was retained because he had about three years left on his contract? Absolutely.
So Lou wanted to re-sign Boqvist, who Roy never played, and was terrible when he did play. Darche said he's not a micromanager, and will let Roy pick his lineup. So why will Boqvist dress this season unless injuries?
I want this team at Barclays because 13,650 attendance in 2015-16 tied outdrew 22/25 Nassau seasons from 1989-2015 where they had 28 weeknight games won a playoff series in NYC where more people live. The LI based fan bloggers got their wish, a return to Nassau in 2018-19-20-21, it was empty with a first place team in March 2019, then 10k/less with a 16 game unbeaten streak that began in October 2019.
Did Barclay's kick them out? No, they did not want to pay them or run their business anymore, big difference. I think the attendance goes up 4x if they stay, and things get renovated like everywhere. No one wants to pay Knicks prices for Knicks hockey as the throw-away event. NYI are the NYC Blue-Collar Blueshirts, somewhat cheaper prices could care less if fans sat on the floor at Barc, the right location with right transit access is where NYI belong. Not Long Island which retired from attending hockey games after 1988.
Leiweke's Oakview is gone, the company remains, they are the Smg of this generation without Flyers owner Ed Snider gobbling up revenue. Leiweke's former company runs Bridgeport/Hamilton, Belmont, he's facing prison, and a big fine. He had money like Brett Yormark had money working for other rich people, not enough to own anything. Silverlake bailed out Oakview when Dolan supposedly gave up his stake in the company his money founded.
Yes, I passed the failed Belmont experiment last week on LIRR, it took an hour for a train at Jamaica station, east to one of the many stops labeled Glen so I have no clue where this thirty minutes from Penn Station comes from to Elmont as the train went past it without stopping.
Where does this team finish? 2nd to 14th what I write most every year, including summer 2018.
I was born here too like Scott Malkin, can't argue his attendance figure in UK for Value Retail which Collins said was 45k, 50k, 55k for a weekend when he went there. The current Value Retail still opening? If they get 500 people a day walking through that's about it. Don't see it working here, never did. He better be flying in 49k from China to get that number. Nice looking, bad location, just like arena.
Drafted prospect, Luca Romano, remains unsigned in Kitchener/anywhere, his teams preseason games begin 8/29 so he needs a deal now there or somewhere else.