Today is a Rangers day, no question about it. Two out of two in Prague is pretty impressive. Even if you hate the Rangers - and even if you saw how terrible the Lightning were this weekend - you have to give the Rangers credit for winning four straight games in Europe, away from everything familiar to them.
Anyway.
You may recall over the summer, Zach and I created our own dream DVD sets for our respective teams. The Rangers one is here, the Islanders one is here. I always felt bad for people who searched "Islanders DVD" on Google, found our blog, and thought it was real. Sadly, it was just something to do over the summer when nothing else was going on.
Or was it?
Looking at the Islanders' website today, I couldn't help but notice the rather interesting poll on the right-hand side of the page. If you're too lazy to look, it asks which game fans would most like to see on an Islanders DVD box set. The current leader is Game 4 of the 1983 Cup Final, which wasn't all that great of a game. As Wayne Gretzky said in his autobiography, "They scored three goals in two minutes and we spent the rest of the night wondering what our consolation speech would sound like." Of course, if you've heard the story about Gretzky and Kevin Lowe passing by the Islanders' locker room after that game, you know the Oilers' dynasty begun that night. So it's natural to include the Dynasty's final moment of glory on the DVD.
But that's not the point.
This is the point. You don't see polls like this on an official website for no reason. Something tells me the Islanders actually are making a DVD of their history and want some fan input regarding which games to include. To be honest, if they didn't go ahead with this thing after teasing the fans with this poll, I'd be pretty pissed. Let's face it, there's not going to be much good coming out of Islander Country this year. We may as well have some vestiges of the past to enjoy.
In other words: the sooner, the better. Maybe I can finally delete the 1993 Islanders-Penguins Classic Series show from my DVR.
Anyway.
You may recall over the summer, Zach and I created our own dream DVD sets for our respective teams. The Rangers one is here, the Islanders one is here. I always felt bad for people who searched "Islanders DVD" on Google, found our blog, and thought it was real. Sadly, it was just something to do over the summer when nothing else was going on.
Or was it?
Looking at the Islanders' website today, I couldn't help but notice the rather interesting poll on the right-hand side of the page. If you're too lazy to look, it asks which game fans would most like to see on an Islanders DVD box set. The current leader is Game 4 of the 1983 Cup Final, which wasn't all that great of a game. As Wayne Gretzky said in his autobiography, "They scored three goals in two minutes and we spent the rest of the night wondering what our consolation speech would sound like." Of course, if you've heard the story about Gretzky and Kevin Lowe passing by the Islanders' locker room after that game, you know the Oilers' dynasty begun that night. So it's natural to include the Dynasty's final moment of glory on the DVD.
But that's not the point.
This is the point. You don't see polls like this on an official website for no reason. Something tells me the Islanders actually are making a DVD of their history and want some fan input regarding which games to include. To be honest, if they didn't go ahead with this thing after teasing the fans with this poll, I'd be pretty pissed. Let's face it, there's not going to be much good coming out of Islander Country this year. We may as well have some vestiges of the past to enjoy.
In other words: the sooner, the better. Maybe I can finally delete the 1993 Islanders-Penguins Classic Series show from my DVR.
I voted for the Volek goal against the Penguins... one of the two times I ever rooted for the Islanders to win.
ReplyDeleteI voted for Volek as well. If only because it was the only game I was alive for that really meant anything. I still hate the Canadiens for winning like 30 straight overtime games that year in the playoffs. Easily the luckiest championship team ever.
ReplyDeleteThe 05-06 Hurricanes are the luckiest team ever I think...
ReplyDeleteDown 2-0 in the first round, backup Cam Ward replaces Martin Gerber and gets hot. Win the next 4, beat the Devils in 5, then they barely escaped Buffalo in the Conference Finals because Buffalo got beat up by Ottawa in the 2nd round.
Then, they should've lost to Edmonton, but Dwayne Roloson went down in the 1st game and they still took 7 games to beat Jussi Markkanen and Ty Conklin.
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