Help my friend Jake

Reminder:

I've written a few times this summer about my friend Jake Wisniewski, the graphics coordinator on Devils telecasts.  Jake had a successful double lung transplant earlier this summer in his fight against cystic fibrosis.

There is a 2nd charity event in his honor--scheduled for Tuesday, September 6th (the day after Labor Day) in Manhattan between 7-10pm.

I hope that you can attend -- many sports celebrities have already said that they will be there -- Butch Goring, Brian Leetch and Ken Daneyko among them.  Many media personalities have already committed to attend as well, including Deb Placey, Steve Cangialosi, Al Trautwig, Matt Loughlin and John Giannone.

There's a poster of the event on my blog -- but you can also visit the Facebook page directly: http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Night-for-Jake/143686762386026

Read all about it, in Jake's own words: http://cotaforjakew.com

 
Please help if you can!

Forever1940 is the nom de plume of Eric Hornick, statistician on Islander home telecasts since 1982. Visit my blog: forever1940.blogspot.com and follow me on Twitter @ehornick

 

Forever1940 is the nom de plume of Eric Hornick, statistician on Islander home telecasts since 1982. Visit my blog: forever1940.blogspot.com and follow me on Twitter @ehornick

Scouts: Isles forwards will combine for 230 goals this season --what does it mean?

Interesting preview by @chrisbottanhl on the Isles' offense.  Chris had 4 scouts comment and their combined estimate is that the Isles forwards will score 230 goals this season.  (Chris' own estimate is 237).

To put that in perspective, if you throw a pedestrian 25 in for the defense and make it 255/262:

Last season, the Bruins won the Stanley Cup after a 246 goal regular season; the Canucks lost in the finals after scoring 262. Of the East teams that missed the playoffs, Carolina scored the most goals (236).

In 2009-10, the Hawks scored 271 in the regular season (and won the Cup) while the Flyers tallied 236.  No East team that missed the playoffs scored more than Atlanta's 234 (RIP).

The last Eastern Conference team to score over 255 goals and miss the playoffs was Atlanta (257) in 2008-09..and technically they only scored 250 --they were credited with 7 "goals" for for shootout winners.

You have to go back to 2005-06 to find an Eastern Conference team that scored that often and missed the playoffs -- the Thrashers had 281 that season (276 + 5 in shootouts).

Now the Isles just need to keep the puck out of their own net.

Chris' original piece is here:

http://www.islanderspointblank.com/2011/08/2011-12-islanders-preview-the-forwardsnhl-pro-scouts-provide-goal-projections-for-each/

 

Forever1940 is the nom de plume of Eric Hornick, statistician on Islander home telecasts since 1982. Visit my blog: forever1940.blogspot.com and follow me on Twitter @ehornick

Katie on the Brooklyn/NHL option

http://www.newsday.com/sports/hockey/islanders/isles-files-1.812028/ratner-and-yormark-meet-with-nhl-officials-1.3108402

 

Forever1940 is the nom de plume of Eric Hornick, statistician on Islander home telecasts since 1982. Visit my blog: forever1940.blogspot.com and follow me on Twitter @ehornick

A Night For Jake

I've written a few times this summer about my friend Jake Wisniewski, the graphics coordinator on Devils telecasts.  Jake had a successful double lung transplant earlier this summer in his fight against cystic fibrosis.

There is a 2nd charity event in his honor--scheduled for Tuesday, September 6th (the day after Labor Day) in Manhattan between 7-10pm.

I hope that you can attend -- many sports celebrities have already said that they will be there -- Butch Goring, Brian Leetch and Ken Daneyko among them.  Many media personalities have already committed to attend as well, including Deb Placey, Steve Cangialosi, Al Trautwig, Matt Loughlin and John Giannone.

There's a poster of the event on my blog -- but you can also visit the Facebook page directly: http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Night-for-Jake/143686762386026

Read all about it, in Jake's own words: http://cotaforjakew.com

 
Please help if you can!

Forever1940 is the nom de plume of Eric Hornick, statistician on Islander home telecasts since 1982. Visit my blog: forever1940.blogspot.com and follow me on Twitter @ehornick

Isles kept secret by National TV schedule

The NHL released the National TV schedule today.

The Isles will make only one appearance on Versus this season -- November 7th in Boston -- and none on NBC.  The remaining 81 games should be available on the MSG family of networks.

The Isles are scheduled to make 1 appearance on NHL Network US-- March 31, also against Boston (the national carriage should be blacked out locally).  They will appear in one regional game on Hockey Night in Canada (March 17 in Montreal), and once nationally in Canada on TSN (December 23 vs Montreal).  They have no current appearances on TSN2; the NHL Network-Canada schedule has not yet been announced.

Since the Penguins appear so frequently, I'm somewhat surprised that Versus didn't choose an Isles-Penguins game.  After all, those teams have history. :)

Forever1940 is the nom de plume of Eric Hornick, statistician on Islander home telecasts since 1982. Visit my blog: forever1940.blogspot.com and follow me on Twitter @ehornick

SI: Isles viewing party will be game vs Sabres on 2/13 -- not Penguins brawlgame

SI.com is reporting that the Isles viewing party game on Friday night will not be the Isles-Penguins brawlfest.  Rather, apparently MSG will re-air the following Islander game, a 7-6 Islander overtime win in Buffalo.

The "replacement game" includes hat tricks by Michael Grabner and Drew Stafford and the Islander debut (in relief) of Al Montoya.

As I noted in The Skinny that night, "The high scoring contest did not include a fight, which was quite a change from the Isles' game on Saturday which included 346 penalty minutes, 183 on the Islanders.  Both marks were club records."

 

Forever1940 is the nom de plume of Eric Hornick, statistician on Islander home telecasts since 1982. Visit my blog: forever1940.blogspot.com and follow me on Twitter @ehornick