Just my goddam luck.

Alfredsson gets whammed with a puck from his own Zdeno Chara. Guy goes down like a cheerleader on prom night.

"Cracked rib" is the official diagnosis. He's supposed to be out a week. Oh well, at least he got me a goal.

BTW- We suck Infinity to the Tenth.

The Hawks may have lost to the lowly Blues but the Islanders are the only team in the entire NHL to never.... and the Rock means never... have beaten the Columbus Blue Jackets.

I was gonna say that the bigeest loser is the one who loses to the Caps but then again I think the biggest loser will be whomever loses in a Hawks vs. Isles game.

Mark your calendars. January 17th at the Blackhawks. This will determine who is truly the shittiest team on earth.

Deal of the Century.

Big trade a while back. I gave Hasek and an underperforming Bill Guerin for LaBarbera and Jagr. Predictably, Mike starts sending trades for Jags. Some are good, some suck ass. I decide to hold off, maybe benefit from a few points from the Rosy-Cheeked one.

After a couple of weeks rooting for a Ranger, I have had enough and pull the trigger on a deal.

I give Jagr and LaBarbera and get... Alfredsson, Morrow and Nabokov.

Yes!!! Now I can cure myself of the nausea, dizziness and diarhea I suffered from rooting for a Ranger. And the best part of the deal is that it went through early enough so that I'll benefit from the mountain of points Alfie should get tonight against my very own, suck-bag Islanders.

We Suck......MOST OF ALL TO INFINITY

The Hawks lost 2-1 to the Blues. The freaking Blues. Tchachuk didn't even play.

Season tickets? Blah! I don't even want single game tickets.

We suck... MOST!

Islanders vs. Rangers.

If they need to beat anyone, it should be the Rangers. And this is at a curcial time where both teams need a momentum0building lift.

The Isles have dropped 4 of the last 5. Several games featured blowing early leads and letting the opposing teams score 5-6 unanswered goals!! The rangers have been on a losing streak and need to break out. Guess who comes out on top? Yup, the Raggies.

Irony:

A pre-game interview with Deb Kaufman features Brad Lukowich, formerly of the Cup-winning Bolts. When asked what must be done to win, Lukowich somewhat sheepishly admits the truth and says, "We need to play defensively."

Fast forward to somewhere in the game. Janne Niinimaa crushes a Rangers behind our net. Lukowich leaves his position to get to the puck. Of course, it gets kicked to the front where Straka (I think) roofs it over an inept DiPietro.

Nice way to play defensively, Brad.

The flood gates open. The Islanders' 2-0 lead turns into a 2-6 loss. Yes, 6 unanswered goals.

And they have the balls to try and foist season tickets on us.

We Suck..... MORE!

I have proof.

Two late goals and another in overtime gave the Detroit Red Wings the unlikeliest of victories.
Pavel Datsyuk scored a power-play goal with one second left in overtime to give Detroit a 3-2 win over the Blackhawks on Friday night. That was after Nicklas Lidstrom and Kris Draper netted goals in the final 39 seconds of regulation to erase a 2-0 Chicago lead and force the extra period.

and......

In a disappointing season, the Columbus Blue Jackets have tried to focus on Nikolai Zherdev's vast potential and not his youthful mistakes. That patience paid off on Monday night when Zherdev tied the game with an acrobatic, highlight-reel goal in the final seconds of regulation. Jaroslav Balastik then scored in overtime to help the Blue Jackets to a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks

and.....

The game plan against Nikolai Khabibulin is to shoot high -- and the Nashville Predators executed it almost perfectly.
Steve Sullivan and Yanic Perreault each had a goal and an assist, rookie defenseman Ryan Suter scored his first NHL goal and the Predators chased Khabibulin in the second period of a 6-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night.
Paul Kariya added two goals in the third period for Nashville, which has won four straight. Chris Mason had 26 saves for the Predators.
Matthew Barnaby had the lone goal for the Blackhawks, who have lost four of five.

Either we get clobbered due to an inconsistent $7 million per year goaltender, or our defense breaks down and we can't hold leads.

Need thee any more proof?

We suck.

Best road record in the league for the season? Bah. You'd never know it.

Sure, we came out and got a lead but, in typical Islander fashion, we blew it. We blew it hard. We blew it like an unpopular girl in high school trying to get a date to the prom. OK. Thatw as a stretch. But we blew it.

7 unanswered goals by the Leafs. A team riddled with enough players so old that their roster alone could threaten American Social Security. That is, if so many weren't Canadian. That's right. I said it. Canadian.

I'm thinking DiPietro really is just a flashy douche-bag. Like any one else, he has flashes of greatness and can stand on his head (what's with that fuckin' term anyway? Does standing on your head really allow you to stop more shots? Or is this just hockey's idea of the ulitmate display of physical prowess?
"Hey, I can run a 4 minute mile."
"Oh yeah? Well I can stand on my head!"
It must be a Canadian thing. That's right. I said it again.).

And someone needs to kill Darcy Tucker. That nutjob is unstable. You can see it in his eyes. There's just too much white showing when he looks up at the jumbo-tron. You can tell just like you can tell when you look at pictures of America's Most Wanted at the post office. But then again, Darcy is playing for the Leafs. Maybe all fine, even-keeled, upstanding Canadians look like that.

That's right. I said it yet again!

Last night would have been a perfect opportunity. Domi was out of the line up. Godard and Asham could've jumped Darcy and pulled a Kerrigan on him. Maybe a Sherwood enema.

Maybe I'm just sour-graping but I really fuckin hate that team and I hate that guy the most.

Eddie Olczyk - See Ya!

We hardly knew ye.

Who's next? Hopefully Trent YAWNey!

Maybe the Hawks will bring back Eddie to coach then.
He is a hometown boy after all.

Get well Blake.

Another disappointing loss at home.

I think it's because I wore my Islanders cap. Anytime I wear team gear, they lose. Last time, I went with no paraphenalia and they won, The time before that, I wore a jersey and they lost. Next week, I'll go as a civvie again and see if that helps. If so, I'm burning all my gear.

Blake took a bad hit on the boards. As usual he was chasing the puck in, kinda slipped, and the Wild Defenseman was simply following through on the check. The problem was that his knee hit the back of Blake's neck.

Blake laid on the ice, unmoving. Pretty freaky. I thought he was dead. Spinal injury for sure. The rinkside camera replay shows Frost (the Wild D) drop his stick and try to talk to Blake immediately after the hit. He knew it was bad. But it was an accident.

A guy was calling for Godard as they worked Blake over but I think everyone knew it wasn't intentional.

I'm convinced there's a spinal injury there. The good news is that they took him off the ice in a regular stretcher. NO C-Collar or backboard. But, as a patient, Blake can refuse that. He may have chosen to refuse that so as to not overly worry the fans. I can see him doing that. And the Isles website says that there's no spinal injury and he "has feeling".

But the bad news is that could be all spin. And "having feeling" doesn't mean he can skate again. And, as they took him off the ice, he wasn't moving. You could tell he was awake but other players, who have had to be taken off by stretcher, will usually give a weak wave. Nothing from Blake. It looked like he was really paralyzed.

This is something to keep a close, close eye on.

Murderous Inent.

Isles vs. Flyers.

We are gonna get hamemred, sez I. Jackie reminds me that I said the Isles play better against better teams. So I did. Can I at least have some hot sauce as I prepare to eat my words?

The game starts out well enough. Goals by Satan and Blake. There's an anoxeric asshole in the stands decked out in a Flyers Jersey. The regulars are letting him have it. They start to mock the Eagles loss of T.O. This doesn't make sense to me since we're at a hockey game. Who gives a shit about football? But Iguess they want to hit him where it would hurt a general Philadelphia fan the most.

But Thin Jim is unrepentant. The Flyers catch a goal and Thin Jim stands and imitates T.O.'s signature Eagle flap. Fuckin' shitbag. If my aim was worth a damn I would've thrown a beer bottle at him.

Predictably, the Islanders blow a 2 goal lead and lose.

In he waning seconds of the game, it looks like Blake knocks in a puck. This would have tied the game with less than a second left in Regulation. But, even after extensive video replay (which clearly showed the puck crossing the goal line), the goal is waved off.

If I was an Islander player, I would've just skated away. Fuck the face off and fuck the fine. And fuck Kerry raser who probably called it off because he wanted to leave and get to a hair stylist appointment.

I watched for him, Thin Jim, but didn't see him when we walked out. Probably a good thing.