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NHL Season Preview: New York Islanders

Welcome to the NHL FanHouse 2008-09 season preview. While other sites are previewing "30 teams in 30 days," we decided to take advantage of the extra time off before the start of the season to bring you all 30 previews over the next three weeks. We're counting down in reverse order of finish from last season in each...

The Islanders Will Give You Free Tickets -- if They Win

The Islanders' marketing department is easily one of the most creative in the league, if not in all of sports. They brought us the original Ice Girls, the Blog Box and Al Arbour coming out of retirement to coach one more game. Today, they unveiled another addition in their long line of original, creative and controversial...

Chase a Higher Draft Position or Beat Your Rivals: What is a Fan to Root for?

As you may know, I'm an avid New York Islanders fan. I also have an avid east-coast bias. Journalistic integrity be damned, at least I'm being honest with you, right? So while the Islanders are setting up tee times for Saturday after they finish up another lackluster season against their cross-town rivals on Friday, I...

Video of the Day: 2-Man Advantage @ Islanders Opener

The boys from 2 Man Advantage sure take their sweet time getting their videos out, but it's usually worth the wait. Perhaps they spend all of those extra hours working on their makeup. *ahem*Anyway, their latest web-vid has them attending the New York Islanders home opener and loitering in the parking lot. I'm just...

"Dubie" Finds a Home on the Island

The New York Islanders had to count on minor-leaguer Wade Dubielewicz (a name that is hard for even us non-Polish Slavs to get right) to help save the day with four straight wins to make the playoffs. When Rick DiPietro suffered two concussions late this season, "Dubie" was there, when Mike Dunham was not.Dubie was so...