One might think that because I’m an Islander fan I instantly must hate anything the Devils do.  Well, the Devils have done nothing but win, win, and win since as long as I’ve been a fan of hockey (since Martin Brodeur’s rookie year) and I can see how that would be annoying to nearby fans of the Flyers, Rangers, and the Islanders.  I’m a little different though.  The Devils don’t annoy me.  They never have.  In fact, I remember the 1st game I saw on TV (the old SportsChannel!) was actually a New Jersey Devils game (I totally remember their nasty green and red Christmas jerseys!).  And by the time I became a die-hard Islander fan I already knew who I was supposed to hate . . . the dirty Rangers!  The Devils were harmless, at least to me!

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I am not a fan of Tiger Woods.  I never have been.  I am not a fan of golf.  But at least I do not bash the “sport” of golf the way that Tiger Woods bashed the great sport of hockey (it’s a proven fact that it is indeed a great sport.  I’ve done experiments).  I spoke about Tiger Wood’s great insult towards hockey in an old post, where I listed my pet peeves (check out #10 for Tiger’s quote).  I’m not 100% sure of this, but I think it’s safe to say that Wayne Gretzky never made fun of golf.  He’s too classy for that.  So needless to say, I’ve always been ticked off at Tiger since his foolish dig towards hockey.  What can I say, I’m biased!

Now that I’ve got that out of the way, and it’s clear that I don’t like Tiger for silly reasons haha, I must say that I have mixed feelings about what’s been happening lately.  I read this article, at www.tsn.ca, and digested Tiger’s comments all day.  Here is what I have:

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This post is inspired by Chris Botta’s comments in one of his Islanderspointblank.com posts, where he asks Islander fans,  ” . . . can we stop using their [Toronto Maple Leafs] misery as consolation for the Islanders?”

Why?  Why must we stop taking solace in the Maple Leafs’ misery?  Hey, the Islanders have no right to make fun of any other organization.  If Wayne Gretzky called the New Jersey Devils a “Mickey Mouse Organization” in the ’80′s, then what would the Islanders of the mid-late-’90′s and all the other years up until and through this year (holy crap that’s a long time!) be called!?  I mean, at this point, any reference to Disney might be too much of a compliment!  But that doesn’t take away the Islanders’ fans right to make fun of the Toronto Maple Leafs, who by the way, haven’t won a Stanley Cup since 1967.  In fact, if anyone has a right to make fun of the Maple Leafs, and dare I say the Montreal Canadiens (the team that beat the Isles way back in 1993 to eventually win the cup – which gives them a bit more leverage in my argument than the Leafs have) it is the fans of the struggling New York Islanders.  Let me explain why:

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Have you heard?!  Hockey’s back!  Okay, don’t wet yourself just yet, because it’s not QUITE back, but it’s close enough for my excitement level to skyrocket!  I enjoy the final weeks of baseball as much as the next guy, and I shall be watching because often times miraculous things can happen (remember when the Rockies won 22 out of 23 games to end the ’07 season?!  Or when the Met’s . . . umm . . . well let’s just say it hasn’t ended well for the Met’s in the past few years.  Yeah.  That was a nice way to put it), but after my prediction of a Royals Mets World Series was laid to rest (laid to rest the minute after I jokingly made the prediction) it has become far too easy for me to look elsewhere for excitement.  So where do I turn for excitement you ask?  Hockey baby!  NHL hockey is just around the corner and it’s coming to places most people wouldn’t expect it to be – Kansas City, Missouri just happens to be one of those places, and I will be at the pre-season game at the Sprint Center on September 22nd, 2009!

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