Congrats Al

Now my loathing for the New York Islanders is well known but I have to give them credit. As I mentioned this summer, the Isles honoured Al Arbour by signing him for a day and allowing him to coach his 1,500th career game.

That game was tonight, a 3-2 win over the Penguins. It was a great night for the Islander organization and for the NHL.

Of course, what made it better was DP getting injured, but that is something else. I will leave the malice out for once and leave you with a fantastic line about the shameless PR move -- I mean, great night -- from Kevin at Barry Melrose Rocks: "Sesame Street reports that the Number Nine is 'very angry.'"

BMR Comes Out Of The Closet

So Kevin over at Barry Melrose Rocks has come out of the closet as an Islanders fan. And to think I kinda liked reading his blog, tsk, tsk.

Maybe he admitted it before, maybe I just ignored it then because he does do some great work, but this time he admitted it during his preview of the Rangers so I couldn't avoid it. He even said in it that we "lost" Rachunek to the Devils and called Marek Malik a star.

Insanity.