Thank YOU Larry Brooks!!!

I don't see Arthur Staple, Katie Strang nor even Chris Botta doing this.

This is why I started that "It's Time" thread but no one took the time...

We need to press more of the media to write articles like this to humiliate Charles Wang and pressure him to act vs speak more BS and bide more time.

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/islanders/s...M#ixzz1euBLifq8

Stu Hackel also addressed the Islanders on cnn.com

http://nhl-red-light.si.com/2011/11/22/no-...?sct=nhl_bf1_a5

I hope these articles get some much needed attention nationally. This fan base has been pummeled to apathy for way too long.
I love brooks "friendship bracelet" quote.Too funny. Because it seems that the wanger is a very engaging and appealing guy that can manipulate the people around him into buying into his nonsense and endorse him as a "friend". Does that include the media as well (what media)???
But I still blame Snow more for not building the team to what limited limited assets he is allowed by wang. Brooks said as much in the article...either be a scrappy team, defense first team, or some other variation that would need limited cap space to at least compete. Wang isn't spending, and that is his right. But snow is a buffoon for trying to build a highly skilled team without spending any money.

Great article. I love anytime this organization gets bashed for the right reasons. Not from media from Toronto either, they are clueless.

SO NOW WE HAVE 2 MORE PEOPLE
THAT WILL BE BANNED FROM THE ISLANDER MEDIA CIRCUS

The worst thing about this mess is that if Wang would hire a real consultant to help him make the right personel decisions and agreed to an average NHL budget, this would all go away within a year or two.

but......

While I can't stand the guy (Brooks) as I regard him as the ultimate homer, he has, twice in the last year, nailed it.

Great article, I hope the guys on this board that do their thing make sure it is sent to all the right people.

About time someone called out this joke of a franchise for what it really is. And it is legit, this is coming from a true Rag homer so he has no skin in the game.

They were both great articles. Brooks' article was like reading one of our threads. It's about time the press wrote what we've known.

More attention like this is much needed.

More attention like this is much needed.

More of it is coming Nick. Snow has gone from sample size to track record. And his track record SUCKS. He made an impact trade his first year on the job by trading away our trash for the rental of a good player. Fine. Since then, we know what he's done and we've discussed it in depth for years. The important thing is that the utter nonsense that he's relayed to the fanbase year after year is starting to wear thin. He's starting to show his true colors. He's afraid to pull the trigger after getting fleeced on Roloson last year. So now he's asking for the sky for everyone and he winds up getting NOTHING. Wang has tightened the purse strings even more this year and it's showing. I cannot wait for Tavares' contract kicking in next year and for Grabner and KO's deals to start to escalate. I cannot wait to see what happens with Nielsen in the offseason and if he has the balls to trade him at the deadline for an actual body and not more draft picks. And, as always, I'm looking forward to watching this DP situation turn into a firestorm. It's going to be there very soon the more Rick gets lit up.

This organization isn't spiraling out of control... it already has.

I had written this a few days ago. Took my editor a while to get it up:

http://puckbuddys.com/2011/11/27/betrayal-charles-wang/

Great articles, but I am skeptical this sort of "expose" will gather any real steam. Here's hoping it does.

Love this: "Rick DiPietro, he of the contract that extends into the 23rd Century, watched safely from the bench."

Exerpt for the link impaired:

This is Wang�s end game. Appease the fans with offers that have no freaking chance of being taken and then offer veterans on the way to retirement incentive laden contracts that they will never achieve.

Thus, you have �courted� the big names and failed. That engenders loyalty from your fanbase and a �us against the world� mentality while banging the NEW ARENA drum. Then, while you give out these incentive laden 35+ contracts and Entry Level contracts to amass a nice few million over the floor with bonuses, in reality you are icing a team TEN MILLION DOLLARS under the cap floor.

So, Charles Wang, SAVIOR OF THE NEW YORK ISLANDERS, has brought us this, in over a decade: 4 playoff appearances. A TOTAL of 6 PLAYOFF WINS. 4 failed Arena proposals, and the absolute bastardization of our hallowed logo and name.

oops

You forgot Terry Simpson.

That said, it's nice so many people are coming around. How some of us were ripped to shreds for seeing and saying this a year or two ago, it's so much more transparent with the rebuild looking like dog **** now, Wang's hindering the team and Snow going after his drinking buddies exclusively just makes for a clarion call for those who were trying so hard to be positive but now - you're on the dark side.

Nice job. Hope you can edit the above bits.

sent that to my editor. thanks!

This disaster is squally on one pair of shoulders -- Charles Wang. People can point to Snow but we all know he doesn't belong as the GM. Wang makes all decisions, including where the cupcake stand goes. Until this circus clown operator is asked to leave, it will not get better.

This disaster is squally on one pair of shoulders -- Charles Wang. People can point to Snow but we all know he doesn't belong as the GM. Wang makes all decisions, including where the cupcake stand goes. Until this circus clown operator is asked to leave, it will not get better.

This disaster is squally on one pair of shoulders -- Charles Wang. People can point to Snow but we all know he doesn't belong as the GM. Wang makes all decisions, including where the cupcake stand goes. Until this circus clown operator is asked to leave, it will not get better.

Ironically, on my Islander e-mail (which goes directly to my "junk e-mail") I recieved my "opportunity" to buy tickets for the Cirque de Soleil today at the NVMC.

With a personal note from the head ass clown, to boot!

Ah, the irony of being an Islander fan.

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/islanders/i...4zuz0TNE3HQ1p4L

Can't argue with much in that article except...

I'm not going to bash Snow for taking Nino over Skinner. Everyone seems to forget that Skinner had the benefit of playing with a true nhl leader and all star in Staal while Nino gets to play with guys who shouldn't be in the league...Reasoner, Pandolpho, Wallace. He hit the nail on the head that Nino should have been in jrs this season and was only with the Isles for salary cap reasons, as depot has said repeatedly, but I'm not going to bash the Isles for that pick. I'll bash them for how they are failing to develop him.

And for his comments on the Josh Bailey pick, he seems to be re-writing history. If the Isles did in that draft what all the fans and Brooks himself wanted, the Isles would have drafted Filatov and had even more issues. Instead, the Isles traded down to get extra picks (didn't one of those picks turn out to be Hamonic??-hard to believe we took him with our 3rd pick in round 2 after Ness and Trevino) and drafted Bailey. As for his comments about Myers and Karrlson, well, it is nice to be a Monday am QB, but no one was calling for them to be top 10 picks...and if you want to kill the Isles for not drafting them, why not clobber the other teams that had picks that didn't take them?

Again, we had to fill our roster with prospects and that is what the tradedown did. Snow had to address the lack of talent that Milbury and his boyfriend Neil Smith left the Isles with (granted...Smith didn't have any time to address that issue in only a month). The purpose of the tradedown is either conveniently lost on Brooks or he just ignores it.

I agree with his bashing of Wang and Snow otherwise.

This morning there are still moronic fellow Islanders fans who are spewing that stubborn "how dare anyone who is associated with the rags make fun of us" nonsense all over the web and social media. Fortunately the majority have caught on.

EVERYTHING in that article is 100% spot on.
Wake the F up people.
WAKE the F UP!!!!???!!! will you???

A REAL NHL TEAM, RUN THE WAY THIS YELLOWSNOW TANDEM WANTS YOU TO
BELIEVE IT'S RUN WOULD HAVE MADE THOSE DRAFT PICKS REGARDLESS OF WHAT US FANS AND DRAFT EXPERTS DEBATED FOR YEARS.
THAT IS THE POINT BEING MADE.

GOD BLESS that rag following bastid for telling it like it is and SHOULD be by
Katie Strang
Arthur Staple
those bullwinkle fill in guys I cannot remember

and of course the bloggers.