3/25 @ Islanders - Itchy Trigger Finger But a Stable Turntable

LogansDad

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Didn't get to watch today, but this feels like the first time this team has sacked up in a truly must win game in about 3 years.
 

j44thor

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The Khudo double pad stack that forced Tavares to shoot high and hit the cross bar might have saved the season.

Khudo is a poor man's Tim Thomas. Little rebound control but always scrambling back to make a key save.
 

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Literally 20-25% Bruins fans

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I went to a play last night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which is a couple of blocks away. I came up through the LIRR station which was full of Isles fans coming in from LI, as you would expect. But in the streets around Barclays and the restaurant where we had dinner, Bruins fans were out in force.

Islanders in Brooklyn = fail. The footprint of the arena is too small for hockey and 1/3 of the seats have shitty sight lines. More importantly it's a culture thing. LI folks live there because they hate the city, and la di da hipster Brooklyn is the worst in their eyes, but no one in Brooklyn has embraced a suburban-branded team.

It's like a rejected organ transplant. Not surprised that the juice in the building was all Boston.
 

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I went to a play last night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which is a couple of blocks away. I came up through the LIRR station which was full of Isles fans coming in from LI, as you would expect. But in the streets around Barclays and the restaurant where we had dinner, Bruins fans were out in force.

Islanders in Brooklyn = fail. The footprint of the arena is too small for hockey and 1/3 of the seats have shitty sight lines. More importantly it's a culture thing. LI folks live there because they hate the city, and la di da hipster Brooklyn is the worst in their eyes, but no one in Brooklyn has embraced a suburban-branded team.

It's like a rejected organ transplant. Not surprised that the juice in the building was all Boston.
I was there last night, I live 9 blocks from Barclays - Bruins support was indeed exceptionally strong. Was with an Isles fan who said nobody wants to take public trans to the games. Car culture on L.I. Is apparently very strong and stubborn. Makes no sense to me but one man's opinion.....
 

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My girlfriend's dad is a big Islanders fan (grew up in Long Island, now lives in Queens) who feels like the Islanders "betrayed" Long Island by moving to Brooklyn. So he refuses to go to Isles games at Barclays even though it's closer both in transit time and distance and he could take a single subway line there.

All of which is to say, yeah, Isles fans apparently have some deep-seated feelings about the whole Brooklyn move that I'm sure doesn't help attendance issues.