NHL 2018-19 Part 1 - No power outage in Toronto this year!!

[Kepler]

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Islanders sweep for the first time since the Cup final vs Edmonton in 1983.

[joecct]

Islanders sweep for the first time since the Cup final vs Edmonton in 1983.

And, as a reward, they play the rest of their home games in Brooklyn.

Yuk

[Kepler]

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And, as a reward, they play the rest of their home games in Brooklyn.

Yuk

Belmont beckons. Eventually.

[icehawk]

Islanders sweep for the first time since the Cup final vs Edmonton in 1983.

And it couldn’t of happened to a better team

[French Rage]

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I know we all make jokes about the Sharks giving up goals in the first minute, but did not happen tonight.

Tonight it took 1 minute and 11 seconds.

[joecct]

Belmont beckons. Eventually.

If it's anything like the East Side Access tunnel, it will be a LONG wait.

[aparch]

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I know we all make jokes about the Sharks giving up goals in the first minute, but did not happen tonight.

Tonight it took 1 minute and 11 seconds.

I read on Twitter that going into tonight, of the seventeen all time match-ups between the Sharks and Knights, in nine of their games Vegas scored within the first five minutes of the game.

[bronconick]

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Here’s the thing about pulling Martin Jones: Aaron Dell also sucks. Just go 6x5

[state of hockey]

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What the heck are the Sharks doi...

oh... right.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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What the heck are the Sharks doi...

oh... right.

Forgetting they're supposed to score if they're going to be this bad defensively...

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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LMAO pic.twitter.com/9D1A7QMSMo

— John (@jtarbett) April 17, 2019

[Jimjamesak]

LMAO pic.twitter.com/9D1A7QMSMo

— John (@jtarbett) April 17, 2019

“You and Geno have fun in Bratislava!”
“See you in two weeks when Ovie finishes with you.”

[Kepler]

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If it's anything like the East Side Access tunnel, it will be a LONG wait.

Were you the one who posted the story from the beat reporter who got Stan Fischler to talk to the owners after they'd made the commitment? The owners were talking about the LIRR modifications and what was necessary and passing it off as nothing. Fischler is apparently (and I have no trouble imagining this) a train fanatic who knows everything about the trains and subways around the City, and he spends 30 minutes explaining to the owners how it's almost impossible to fix unless you do about 18 things, several of which probably demand eminent domain, and all the time the owners are looking more and more suicidal like "oh sh-t what did we just do?"

Here is a passing reference in Deadspin, but I recall reading a more detailed account elsewhere.

From all accounts, Islanders fans are for the most part relieved at the prospect of being spared the trek to Brooklyn (and the terrible sightlines once they got there). But they’re still concerned about the trek to Belmont, especially with the train issues.

James Francis Fess, a lifelong Islanders fan—he claims that his father literally placed an Islanders hat on his head the day he was born—and a leader of the Blue and Orange Army fan group, worries that the traffic on the nearby Cross Island Parkway on game days “is going to be insanity. The traffic around the Coliseum is nothing like around Belmont. You can look up any single day on a traffic map, and I guarantee you that it’s going to be black on the Cross Island.”

Fess says he got to ride to the Belmont arena announcement last season with the team’s entourage, which included both Ledecky and longtime broadcaster Stan Fischler, who moonlights as a transit expert. The resulting conversation, he says, was both enlightening and worrisome.

“I mentioned to [Ledecky], ‘It’s not true that people will have to transfer at Jamaica still, right? Like how they do for the Barclays Center.’ And he’s like, ‘No, we want the train to go directly there. Stan’ll know about this, because Stan knows everything about trains.’”

Fischler, recalls Fess, began rattling off a list of changes that would be needed to make full service to Belmont a reality. “Ledecky’s sitting there like, ‘Wait a second.’ I see the look on his face, and I think ‘Oh no, they didn’t even think about this.’”

They'll open on time. You just won't be able to get there by anything but car. Which, well, the Coliseum.

[alfablue]

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Were you the one who posted the story from the beat reporter who got Stan Fischler to talk to the owners after they'd made the commitment? The owners were talking about the LIRR modifications and what was necessary and passing it off as nothing. Fischler is apparently (and I have no trouble imagining this) a train fanatic who knows everything about the trains and subways around the City, and he spends 30 minutes explaining to the owners how it's almost impossible to fix unless you do about 18 things, several of which probably demand eminent domain, and all the time the owners are looking more and more suicidal like "oh sh-t what did we just do?"

Here is a passing reference in Deadspin, but I recall reading a more detailed account elsewhere.




They'll open on time. You just won't be able to get there by anything but car. Which, well, the Coliseum.

I may be missing something, but Belmont Race park has capacity of over 100k people. So a hockey game of a 20k sell out will not be nearly as bad as that. (I'm noting the part where the traffic will be insane).

And for those in the rest of the country who has to drive to hockey games, cry me a river. I'd love to jump on the D train and end up at the Pizzarina. Aint going to happen.

[Kepler]

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And for those in the rest of the country who has to drive to hockey games, cry me a river

55% of New Yorkers do not own a car.

Not everybody lives on a f-cking farm.