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THE KIDS; THE KIDS
Topic Started: Dec 11 2008, 10:22 PM (1,231 Views)
LEDZEP
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Islanders 1
Penguins 9
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As I've read from posters on this board
this is called growing pains.

And we just need to play "THE KIDS" until
they gel and Isles will be Stanley Cup contenders in
3 or 4 years.

These are not quality hockey players.
The Islanders did wrong by revamping team with AHL players
and selling this KID CRAP.

They have ruined my team :angrier:

I'm sure once Mr. 15 years returns all will be OK :puke:
:disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced:
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3POTI
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Bring back...PRIDE OF THE ISLAND
http://islanders.nhl.com/team/app?service=...ers&type=roster



GET RID OF THE VETS NOW AND GO WITH THE BRIDGEPORT SOUNDTIGERS


if we're going to lose like crap, go all out and assure yourselves of the #1 pick

say goodbye to guerin, weight, sillinger, witt, comrie etc...

say hello to these guys:

http://www.soundtigers.com/player
Today Is A Great Day To Be An Islander Fan!
Live For The Moment!

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i can see the headlines tommorow


LEDZEP :ragssuck:

lost it

:rofl:

:rocker:
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After this loss, I have no ideas.
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LEDZEP,Dec 11 2008
10:22 PM
FINAL

Islanders 1
Penguins 9
-----------------

As I've read from posters on this board
this is called growing pains.

And we just need to play "THE KIDS" until
they gel and Isles will be Stanley Cup contenders in
3 or 4 years.

These are not quality hockey players.
The Islanders did wrong by revamping team with AHL players
and selling this KID CRAP.

They have ruined my team :angrier:

I'm sure once Mr. 15 years returns all will be OK :puke:
:disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced:

9-2, not 9-1.

sincerely, Andy Sutton.

:P
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fastymctalent55
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It's a rebuilding process! This is what happens.

What did we think rebuilding meant?
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fastymctalent55,Dec 12 2008
10:28 AM
It's a rebuilding process! This is what happens.

What did we think rebuilding meant?

I didnt think it included some demolition AFTER the foundation is set.
I sold it all, retired and moved to Fabulous Las Vegas!
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bumpkin
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fastymctalent55,Dec 12 2008
10:28 AM
It's a rebuilding process! This is what happens.

What did we think rebuilding meant?

It HAS been a rebuilding process for quite some time. Can you tell me when it will be completed?
The Drive for Five is now officially the Drive to Survive!
Where in the World is Sebastian Collberg?
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bumpkin
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LEDZEP,Dec 11 2008
10:22 PM
FINAL

Islanders 1
Penguins 9
-----------------

As I've read from posters on this board
this is called growing pains.

And we just need to play "THE KIDS" until
they gel and Isles will be Stanley Cup contenders in
3 or 4 years.

These are not quality hockey players.
The Islanders did wrong by revamping team with AHL players
and selling this KID CRAP.

They have ruined my team :angrier:

I'm sure once Mr. 15 years returns all will be OK :puke:
:disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced: :disgraced:

Amen, Ledzep.
Wang is not trying to improve this hockey team, he is just biding his time trying to get the real estate deal done. Everything on the cheap: GM, Manager(boy, did he learn from the Smith and Nolan selections-NOT!), and player signings(one way contract for you know who). Feed the fans the youth movement KoolAid, and hope for the best.
I do give credit for the draft, but it has to be partial credit until we see how it turns out in 5 years. Go Go needs to come up with a system for defense. It was good that the Pens missed the extra point they needed to get into double digits.
Where in the World is Sebastian Collberg?
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bumpkin,Dec 12 2008
10:50 AM
fastymctalent55,Dec 12 2008
10:28 AM
It's a rebuilding process!  This is what happens.

What did we think rebuilding meant?

It HAS been a rebuilding process for quite some time. Can you tell me when it will be completed?
The Drive for Five is now officially the Drive to Survive!

Really? Has it?

Can you tell me when it started?

Was it when they traded for Trevor Linden?

Was it when they traded for Wendel Clark?

Was it when they traded for Kirk Muller?

Was it when they traded for Alexei Yashin and Mike Peca?

Was it when they signed John Sim?

Was it when they traded for Ryan Smyth?

Was it when they signed Bill Guerin and Mike Comie?

Was it when they signed Doug Weight?

This team hasn't seen a day of rebuilding until this season.

Once they dump Weight, Comrie and Guerin it will happen in earnest.

Signing and trading for veterans isn't part of a rebuild.

Just because this team has been mediocre for a long time and hasn't won a cup since before many people on this message board were born doesn't mean they've been rebuilding since 1984.

This team has never attempted a true rebuild until this season which is why they've been stuck in this terrible middle ground forever.
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fastymctalent55,Dec 12 2008
11:45 AM
bumpkin,Dec 12 2008
10:50 AM
fastymctalent55,Dec 12 2008
10:28 AM
It's a rebuilding process!  This is what happens.

What did we think rebuilding meant?

It HAS been a rebuilding process for quite some time. Can you tell me when it will be completed?
The Drive for Five is now officially the Drive to Survive!

Really? Has it?

Can you tell me when it started?

Was it when they traded for Wendel Clark?

Was it when they traded for Kirk Muller?

Was it when they traded for Alexei Yashin and Mike Peca?

Was it when they signed John Sim?

Was it when they traded for Ryan Smyth?

Was it when they signed Bill Guerin and Mike Comie?

Was it when they signed Doug Weight?

This team hasn't seen a day of rebuilding until this season.

Once they dump Weight, Comrie and Guerin it will happen in earnest.

Signing and trading for veterans isn't part of a rebuild.

Just because this team has been mediocre for a long time and hasn't won a cup since before many people on this message board were born doesn't mean they've been rebuilding since 1984.

This team has never attempted a true rebuild until this season which is why they've been stuck in this terrible middle ground forever.

Good points but I disagree with terminology.

To be totally accurate, this team has tried to rebuild a winner since the 80's.

But only this year have they embarked on a mission to build a winner from within.

Depends on how we spin it.

Either way, the results have been tougher to stomach than Lucy trying to down a spoonful of Vita-Meata-Vegamin.

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Steve, every team tries to get their team back to a winner. This team has been no different, they've just been bad at it. But a true rebuild that isn't based on the fact that the owners didn't want to pay their players? That's never happened here.
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fastymctalent55,Dec 12 2008
12:00 PM
Steve, every team tries to get their team back to a winner. This team has been no different, they've just been bad at it. But a true rebuild that isn't based on the fact that the owners didn't want to pay their players? That's never happened here.

I know, it's been so overly discussed and debated here over the years by all of us.

I think I'm numb to it by now. It's just that every year, we have or should I say, find something to latch onto in terms of hope (ie: slight winning streak or great play of MacDonald).
Then we get to within 2 games of .500 and boomf...
the floor falls from under us and reality sets in, one loss at a time.

I'm both curious as I am worried over what further "changes" lie ahead.

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3POTI,Dec 11 2008
10:28 PM
http://islanders.nhl.com/team/app?service=...ers&type=roster



GET RID OF THE VETS NOW AND GO WITH THE BRIDGEPORT SOUNDTIGERS


if we're going to lose like crap, go all out and assure yourselves of the #1 pick

say goodbye to guerin, weight, sillinger, witt, comrie etc...

say hello to these guys:

http://www.soundtigers.com/player

Can't do that. The NHL has a cap floor that every team must surpass as far as salary. Dumping all of the veterans and going that route isn't an option.
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bumpkin,Dec 12 2008
10:52 AM
LEDZEP,Dec 11 2008
10:22 PM
FINAL

Islanders 1
Penguins  9
-----------------

As I've read from posters on this board
this is called growing pains.

And we just need to play "THE KIDS" until
they gel and Isles will be Stanley Cup contenders in
3 or 4 years.

These are not quality hockey players.
The Islanders did wrong by revamping team with AHL players
and selling this KID CRAP.

They have ruined my team :angrier:

I'm sure once Mr. 15 years returns all will be OK  :puke:
:disgraced:  :disgraced:  :disgraced:  :disgraced:  :disgraced:  :disgraced:  :disgraced:  :disgraced:

Amen, Ledzep.
Wang is not trying to improve this hockey team, he is just biding his time trying to get the real estate deal done. Everything on the cheap: GM, Manager(boy, did he learn from the Smith and Nolan selections-NOT!), and player signings(one way contract for you know who). Feed the fans the youth movement KoolAid, and hope for the best.
I do give credit for the draft, but it has to be partial credit until we see how it turns out in 5 years. Go Go needs to come up with a system for defense. It was good that the Pens missed the extra point they needed to get into double digits.

Some points:

Isn't getting a new arena the big piece to the puzzle to ultimately improving this team to an elite franchise status.

The man is also losing 15 million plus per year with this team and that is nothing to sneeze in today's economy or any economy for that matter.

I thought Garth chose the new 'head coach', going with the young teacher guy who would have been more patient with the rebuild and young players than an experienced high priced guy who may not have been on board with rebuild.

It's been rehashed in many threads about how guys just aren't coming here. Did you want more stopgaps like Vasicek, Tank, etc so that we may just miss the playoffs.

I'd like to win too but am board with this rebuild and was fully aware we played way over our heads in November. We are not as bad as last night but not as good as we were in November. We're at the bottom of the league as far as talent so it goes to follow we'd not be very good.

I fully agree with fasty. I expected us to not be good and accept it for what it is. I'll still watch every game like I do every year and hope to grab a franchise player in the draft in June.
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That was tough to watch. This team looks lost, no fire, no idea, no chance.

Growing pains? I respectfully disgagree. Look, I'm the first one to say we are what we are. Kids with vets playing in a system where most of who we have don't fit. But that does not mean we don't at least compete. Last night we did not. We haven't for four or five games and that is unacceptable.

I know we have injuries, but we looked, for the first time, like we didn't care.

And I admit I turned it off in disgust after two periods, but couldn't we have at least had a scrum or two to show we were ticked off. If it happened in the third I missed it, but it should have happened much sooner.

Probably didn't happen at all, and that would not surprise me.

Not a happy camper right now. Not at all.
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rifleman22,Dec 12 2008
02:52 PM
That was tough to watch. This team looks lost, no fire, no idea, no chance.

Growing pains? I respectfully disgagree. Look, I'm the first one to say we are what we are. Kids with vets playing in a system where most of who we have don't fit. But that does not mean we don't at least compete. Last night we did not. We haven't for four or five games and that is unacceptable.

I know we have injuries, but we looked, for the first time, like we didn't care.

And I admit I turned it off in disgust after two periods, but couldn't we have at least had a scrum or two to show we were ticked off. If it happened in the third I missed it, but it should have happened much sooner.

Probably didn't happen at all, and that would not surprise me.

Not a happy camper right now. Not at all.

Love train derailed I guess :P
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but how can you not be excited about DiPietro…Robert Nilsson…Ryan O'Marra…Petteri Nokelainen…Jeremy Colliton…Kyle Okposo…Blake Comeau…Sean Bergenheim…Chris Campoli…and so many others.
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sybo,Dec 12 2008
01:54 PM
rifleman22,Dec 12 2008
02:52 PM
That was tough to watch. This team looks lost, no fire, no idea, no chance.

Growing pains? I respectfully disgagree. Look, I'm the first one to say we are what we are. Kids with vets playing in a system where most of who we have don't fit. But that does not mean we don't at least compete. Last night we did not. We haven't for four or five games and that is unacceptable.

I know we have injuries, but we looked, for the first time, like we didn't care.

And I admit I turned it off in disgust after two periods, but couldn't we have at least had a scrum or two to show we were ticked off. If it happened in the third I missed it, but it should have happened much sooner.

Probably didn't happen at all, and that would not surprise me.

Not a happy camper right now. Not at all.

Love train derailed I guess :P

you beat me to it.

its that love train jinx.

:lol:
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stevedepot,Dec 12 2008
02:56 PM
sybo,Dec 12 2008
01:54 PM

Love train derailed I guess  :P

you beat me to it.

its that love train jinx.

:lol:

yea all we need is Gordon to sport a purple tie with locomotive graphics on it now :)
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but how can you not be excited about DiPietro…Robert Nilsson…Ryan O'Marra…Petteri Nokelainen…Jeremy Colliton…Kyle Okposo…Blake Comeau…Sean Bergenheim…Chris Campoli…and so many others.
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sybo,Dec 12 2008
02:05 PM
stevedepot,Dec 12 2008
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sybo,Dec 12 2008
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Love train derailed I guess  :P

you beat me to it.

its that love train jinx.

:lol:

yea all we need is Gordon to sport a purple tie with locomotive graphics on it now :)

he's worn that light purple tie a few times already though.

Wonder if it isn't one of Nolan's from last year that accidentally
got dropped in the WHITES laundry w/bleach.

:dontknow:
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