After months of no audio for items posted on left sidebar, everything has been restored via a free file hosting service, however it also plays everything when you click that link if you let it continue running.
Islanders-Sound Tigers mailing list from 2000-2006 on the right sidebar is again accessible for archive reference reading only with some files/images/articles readers should enjoy. No members will be accepted, no new entries posted.
Yahoo changed to a neo groups format that frankly made the list not accessible to current active owners much less an inactive group with no updates since May 2006.
Full articles with original wording are good reference information, along with laughing at how many things I got wrong over the years.
Prospect website page updated with more changes.
Also finally attempting to keep a long broken promise requested by many to tag entries, it's been lazy/inexcusable on my part.
Blogger's link issues continue but adding items.
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Twitter:
The only reason the twitter account for this website is not protected is so everyone can read entries here at the top left of this website.
I'm officially cracking down on my twitter followers, there has always been a zero tolerance on profanity of any kind for my followers since day one. Anyone who reads this, then would like to follow via twitter that's the one thing I insist upon. You will receive a direct message about this subject now upon joining.
Agree/disagree respectfully also asked of all followers---a little common courtesy.
Anyone who cannot conduct themselves along those very simple guidelines will be immediately blocked.
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Give Me Something Hockey Related?
Ok, I could care less about John Spano or some documentary, who in his brief twitter time responded to me, and apologized for his conduct, it was very sincere from my viewpoint.
The media too cheap to cover our games should save money on this non-sense, and go interview John Tavares instead.
Kevin Connolly should have demanded a 30/30 documentary about the greatest American US hockey team of all time, the only professional sports team ever to win nineteen straight playoff series, arguable the best professional sports franchise ever that made it as far as semi-finals from 1975-1984 every single year but one in it's most established division/conference at the height of the NHL's popularity in New York City year round.
How many professional sports teams have won four straight championships since? Zero.
How many have won nineteen playoff series in a row ever? Zero.
Mr Connolly did enough interviews where said he met Espn resistance who wanted the great teams omitted for the controversy instead. How many Espn Ranger die-hard fans/self-serving former team media was he forced to interview/include?
Connolly wanted Tonelli goals vs Pittsburgh, Espn wanted downside, he should have taken his project elsewhere or cancelled it.
Bottom line John Spano would have done the exact same thing to Dallas, Florida which he previously almost bought or any other NHL franchise. It was never a New York Islander issue beyond the league's failure to vet a potential owner's finances properly.
When Fleet Bank found out, John/Brett Pickett took back the team.
What's amazing, and the true enduring legacy here is Spano's deal to extend the cable rights will stand until 2030-2031 for future New York Islander owners as long as this franchise remains in this television market.
That increased the teams resale value from Pickett, to Howard Milsten by thirty million dollars.
Charles/James Dolan signed a television deal with Spano that gave the New York Islanders a television contract which runs through 2030 that gave any New York Islander hockey owner eighteen percent of all Msg revenue.
Charles/James Dolan upon learning of this in the agreement at some future point in 1998 immediate pulled games off television (invoking a phony competition clause) until the Islanders agreed on a flat fee, but the Dolan's never simply sued to break the deal because it was made with an owner who was never legitimate in John Spano.
Don't expect the documentary to tell you that.