Expect Sound Tigers Decision By Coliseum Ground Breaking/Notables

New York Islander Fan Central | 8/07/2015 05:14:00 PM |
Folks, let's be clear, Wang's Bridgeport lease language to operate Webster Bank Arena was specifically changed as a condition to him taking over in 2011. He has to supply a professional hockey league team, not the AHL. 



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 Mike Bossy is also apparently leaving NYI business operations/Msg Network.

 It is with great pleasure that of TVA Sports announces the arrival of Mike Bossy on air. Starting this fall, the former striker of New York Islanders will be the analysis of games of the National Hockey League and will also join the Dave Morissette live broadcast, as a collaborator. Considered one of the best players that have evolved within the National Hockey League, experience the game will bring an extraordinary contribution to the programming of TVA Sports.

"I am very honored to join TVA Sports. After spending 10 seasons in the National Hockey League and have evolved with great players, I can assure you there is no other team that I would have associated. I am proud to make my contribution to TVA Sports has done an outstanding job in his first season as the official broadcaster of the NHL, "said the new TVA Sports analyst.

"It is an honor for our chain to welcome Mike Bossy our team. Mike was one of the most prolific scorers in the history of the National Hockey League, added Louis Philippe Neveu, executive producer of hockey on TVA Sports.

Let's Keep This Short: 2015-16 New York Islanders

New York Islander Fan Central | 8/03/2015 02:45:00 AM |
1. There are thirteen signed forwards, and Brock Nelson. No one else is being signed unless there is a trade, players are hurt in camp, or someone fails to win a job among Bridgeport/prospects.

The roster spots at this time are completely filled. 

2. They do not need another Eaton, Staios, Mottau ect signing to add depth on defense that will not help the team. The defenders in UFA have struggled or want too much money, it's not last summer here with a defensive roster clearly not capable of competing. The prospects are a year older/closer and need a look in camp.

3. The Boston Bruins finished fourteen games over five hundred with ninety six points, and failed to qualify for the playoffs.  Granted two less games/regulation ties, but the 82-83 Islanders miss these playoffs, and the 79-80 Islanders are so far out of contention they never trade for Goring or go on a huge winning streak which got them to a ninety one point playoff spot.

The days of sixteen of twenty one teams qualifying for the playoffs are long gone. In this conference half the teams will not qualify at all, and if this team continues it's five hundred stretch the final two months of last season it's likely not returning to the playoffs unless it has an Ottawa 19-1-1 streak in them.

Whoever qualifies for the playoffs has to be a very good hockey team or it's not going to happen, and it's likely going to have less shoot out wins which was usually a positive.

New York's schedule in the second half is horrendous again with little rest.

Bottom line as I have written most years the 2015-16 New York Islanders can finish 1st or 30th.
The rest is just a lot of useless words.

7/28 Nassau IDA Gives Ratner Unanimous Approval For Coliseum Renovation Tax Money

New York Islander Fan Central | 7/28/2015 07:09:00 PM |
For those scoring at home the IDA tax money comes to about four million dollars. Dolan's Newspaper will continue to make this somehow seem worse than their plan because he lost, wanting control of all real estate rights & more tax exemptions on Coliseum & surrounding plaza than Ratner.

New York Islanders 1972-73/2015-16 Nothing's Changed...The Correct Logo

New York Islander Fan Central | 7/22/2015 10:17:00 AM |
As I have written in the past I have no problem with the New York Islanders keeping their iconic logo which has been changed from darker blue/orange to a logo with four stripes. Few noticed.

The hypocrisy has been written about often here how media selectively brand teams for their own marketing purposes, revenue and bottom line as the New Jersey football teams (and the Red Bull) market themselves as New York.

The media will not use the following names:
New Jersey Giants
New Jersey Jets
New Jersey Red Bull
Queens Mets
Bronx Yankees
Manhattan Knicks
Manhattan Rangers
Newark Devils
Bronx NYCFC
Manhattan Liberty

That would cost newspaper publishers/editors their jobs, and ruin business relationships with teams not named Washington Redskins. (Daily News)

The Daily News spindoctors make absoultely clear for the Nets winning will never equal coverage.

All of these teams generic logo's never included a map.

How poorly the Nets have been branded since day one speaks to how Mr Yormark markets or is told to by his boss.

Mr Yormark will continue to use the word Brooklyn three times in every paragraph which will do a ton of damage to the NEW YORK Islander brand, reality is he would have doubled/his ticket season base/marketing/ad revenue simply branding like his counterparts.

What's obvious is fans/businesses all over the tri-state area have decided if the Nets want to be Brooklyn, they will not embrace them as a New York team.

The marketing house of cards Mr Yormark created with the Nets shows a fan base, not very vocal or visible, with the worst television ratings, who got less playoff attention in NYC than the Islanders (or the Rangers) which frankly is a media miracle in a huge basketball market that screams branding a New York based team Brooklyn does not work.

The Knicks back into an 8th seed and their media cheerleaders are hanging on every single shot.

The Barclay's/Nets novelty has worn off after three years, and the current ownership's basketball plan to overspend x 10 on Garth Snow's version of the Bill Guerin, Doug Weight plan has produced massive financial losses in luxury taxes.

That party is now over, the aging veterans are long gone with the draft picks until 2019, their franchise point guard demanded his trade, the name coach (Jason Kidd) left for Milwaukee a year ago. (the one who demanded a trade as a player if the Nets ever moved to the Coliseum)

The playoff Nets of 2013-14 made the 2002-03 Islanders look like a first place team by comparison.

Now we see if they can sustain their attendance if those owners even stay very long with a very mediocre product at best, in what has been a terrible conference.

The New York Islanders never ending Long Island marketing/media diet (going back to Bill Torrey running things) has made it easy for the media to keep them on the outside of New York despite Charles Wang making clear forty percent of his season tickets were sold inside New York in July 2011 when he was fighting to win a referendum.

It's done a lot of damage, but up to 2004 the home/road games were covered in all NYC papers.

Those days are long gone/newspapers are broke, and practice selective journalism based on their own cap floor operations, and what teams they have good business relationships with.

Anyway here is the correct logo concept for the New York Islanders, the one they should have used since 1972 that represents all the fans, it's not perfected yet but folks get the idea. Manhattan, all five boroughs.

New York Islanders 1972-1973, New York Islanders 2015-16.
All the fans of this franchise are represented and included.

Nothing's changed.

My guess is if this concept became the teams logo again few would even notice the difference. 

New York Signs Louis LeBlanc

New York Islander Fan Central | 7/17/2015 12:52:00 PM |