More Fantastic News
I hope you all read Newsday today to catch the latest exchange between our GM and our coach.
If you didn't see it, here you go:
When asked about Wade Dubielewicz not being resigned by the team, Ted Nolan completely contradicted a comment made the day previously by Garth Snow. The GM had said that before last season, Dubie had not shown up to training camp in shape and therefore, the coaching staff did not have confidence in playing him...which lead to over-playing number one goalie, Rick DiPietro.
Nolan's response: "It was news to me."
Nolan was also much more diplomatic when discussing Dubie's Islander career; thanking him for the effort and reminding us that the team would have never made the playoffs if he hadn't made The Pokecheck during the shootout vs. New Jersey. But we don't get that in an article where both men are quoted. We get it in two separate articles that literally and figuratively are on different pages. Nice work, guys.
So what do we make of this? Well, for starters, the communication between Snow and Nolan is breaking down again. There's been rumors for some time about discord amongst the Islanders Brain Trust and what we are reading is not going to make those rumors go away. We know that Snow and Mr. Wang are hell-bent on going with the kids this year--a move we support and think is long overdue, quite frankly--and we also know that Ted Nolan has voiced his opinion that he doesn't think this is the best tact for the team to take. Throw in the reluctance of the team to extend Nolan in the last year of his contract and what you see is that they don't know if Ted Nolan is the right kind of guy to play the nurturing role while the kids develop.
Then you get the news that Rick DiPietro had minor knee surgery this week and that this potentially huge news was disclosed not in Newsday or on a fine news source like NYIFORLIFE.com, but that Rick himself spilled the beans on (of all things) The Bubba The Love Sponge Show on Sirius satellite radio.
Seriously. Not on XM's NHL Live, but on Sirius channel Howard 101. Yeesh.
Whether or not the surgery was minor or major is of no importance other than we are one injury away from starting Joey MacDonald in 2008-09. No, this is much deeper than that. It is another organizational breakdown of communication. There was no one involved with the team to either counsel Rick to shut his yap about surgery (because is makes the fans nervous at this point) or to have it on the website or in the paper to get the message out there that it isn't anything major and that The Franchise is okay.
Look--I know what it is like to work in an office where you don't all get along and where you may not trust the person sitting next to you. It sucks. Totally sucks. But it is even worse when you have this alleged discord while running a sports franchise because you're essentially messing with the public trust. The Isles like to think that they are making all sorts of important headway in the community to grow the next generation of Islanders fans and to a point, the work they are doing has been successful. But the one thing that really puts butts in the seats and creates goodwill between the organization and the fans is a winning team. Drama does nothing but create feelings of "more of the same" in regards to the New York Islanders.
I'm sick of reading about and I am sick of caring so much about a team that seemingly has to take two or three steps backwards after they take one step forward. The Isles need to get their shit together for the sake of the people who care about the team. I know this is true because I am like the most patient person ever with this stuff and now I am just getting tired of it.
I had hoped to write something about the upcoming draft this week. I also had thought about writing a post about the game from Monday night because it was simply one of the most enjoyable and fun games to watch in my thirty years of watching this game we all love. I had also hoped to post another Retro Live Blog but in all three cases, I couldn't, because the Islanders gave me something to complain about.
So, you know, thanks for that, guys. Now shut up and figure it out.
If you didn't see it, here you go:
When asked about Wade Dubielewicz not being resigned by the team, Ted Nolan completely contradicted a comment made the day previously by Garth Snow. The GM had said that before last season, Dubie had not shown up to training camp in shape and therefore, the coaching staff did not have confidence in playing him...which lead to over-playing number one goalie, Rick DiPietro.
Nolan's response: "It was news to me."
Nolan was also much more diplomatic when discussing Dubie's Islander career; thanking him for the effort and reminding us that the team would have never made the playoffs if he hadn't made The Pokecheck during the shootout vs. New Jersey. But we don't get that in an article where both men are quoted. We get it in two separate articles that literally and figuratively are on different pages. Nice work, guys.
So what do we make of this? Well, for starters, the communication between Snow and Nolan is breaking down again. There's been rumors for some time about discord amongst the Islanders Brain Trust and what we are reading is not going to make those rumors go away. We know that Snow and Mr. Wang are hell-bent on going with the kids this year--a move we support and think is long overdue, quite frankly--and we also know that Ted Nolan has voiced his opinion that he doesn't think this is the best tact for the team to take. Throw in the reluctance of the team to extend Nolan in the last year of his contract and what you see is that they don't know if Ted Nolan is the right kind of guy to play the nurturing role while the kids develop.
Then you get the news that Rick DiPietro had minor knee surgery this week and that this potentially huge news was disclosed not in Newsday or on a fine news source like NYIFORLIFE.com, but that Rick himself spilled the beans on (of all things) The Bubba The Love Sponge Show on Sirius satellite radio.
Seriously. Not on XM's NHL Live, but on Sirius channel Howard 101. Yeesh.
Whether or not the surgery was minor or major is of no importance other than we are one injury away from starting Joey MacDonald in 2008-09. No, this is much deeper than that. It is another organizational breakdown of communication. There was no one involved with the team to either counsel Rick to shut his yap about surgery (because is makes the fans nervous at this point) or to have it on the website or in the paper to get the message out there that it isn't anything major and that The Franchise is okay.
Look--I know what it is like to work in an office where you don't all get along and where you may not trust the person sitting next to you. It sucks. Totally sucks. But it is even worse when you have this alleged discord while running a sports franchise because you're essentially messing with the public trust. The Isles like to think that they are making all sorts of important headway in the community to grow the next generation of Islanders fans and to a point, the work they are doing has been successful. But the one thing that really puts butts in the seats and creates goodwill between the organization and the fans is a winning team. Drama does nothing but create feelings of "more of the same" in regards to the New York Islanders.
I'm sick of reading about and I am sick of caring so much about a team that seemingly has to take two or three steps backwards after they take one step forward. The Isles need to get their shit together for the sake of the people who care about the team. I know this is true because I am like the most patient person ever with this stuff and now I am just getting tired of it.
I had hoped to write something about the upcoming draft this week. I also had thought about writing a post about the game from Monday night because it was simply one of the most enjoyable and fun games to watch in my thirty years of watching this game we all love. I had also hoped to post another Retro Live Blog but in all three cases, I couldn't, because the Islanders gave me something to complain about.
So, you know, thanks for that, guys. Now shut up and figure it out.
Labels: Garth Snow, New York Islanders, Rick DiPietro, Ted Nolan
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