It was as if the team never left.  Just like so many matinees that proceeded it, Islanders fans crowded the Nassau Coliseum to tailgate and party before game time.  The

My family is by no means a hockey family.  My father grew up in Israel.  He played soccer his entire childhood and didn’t know what hockey was until he spent

Not only is the Islanders’ rookie team promising, their perseverance seems to be second-to-none.  Wednesday night, the rookie squad took on the Philadelphia Flyers’ prospects at Wells Fargo Center in

In hockey there are five “seasons,”; the preseason, regular season, playoffs, Stanley Cup final, and offseason.  Each has its own elements that fans around the hockey world get excited for. 

While the Islanders seem to be done with transactions until training camp, the team still has one more obstacle to clear before the season begins.  They are yet to extend

Amidst the turmoil that surrounded this offseason, there were a few things that Isles fans knew were going to happen during the summer.  One of these was the fact that

“Is it October yet?”  It’s that question that hockey fans keep asking themselves all summer long as they wait for the regular season to begin.  Some big name prospects, however,

We’ve officially hit the “dead” part of the offseason, the time in which little-to-nothing eventful happens around the NHL.  Yes, Jaromir Jagr doesn’t have a contract yet and salary arbitration

Ask any hockey fan, our sport is the hardest to play, period.  Participants need to move a three-inch piece of rubber on a one-inch by six-foot stick down a two-hundred-foot

Ever since news broke that Ilya Kovalchuk was NHL bound, I seemed to be in the minority when it came to him signing with the Islanders.  The Russian forward expressed