Capuano is in the second year of a 15 year contract, the longest given to a coach in any sport, also the lowest salary per season.
Wang gives Snow for years of loyal and dedicated service 49% percent of ownership, Wang maintains majority ownership. Team philosophy remains unchanged.
Stephon Williams becomes the first goalie in NHL history to start all 82 games.
As the back up Nabokov never gets off the bench.
Loic Leduc is on the top D pair, his -39 is best on the team, a big lead over the old but improved Jon Sim who is - 57.
With Sim and Clutterbuck on his line Tavares sets career low season with 2 goals, 1 behind team leader Loic Leduc.
With the first pick in the 2015, Buffalo drafts Conner McDavid obtained in the Tomas Vanek deal. With the draft being held in Brooklyn, Wang is at the draft table busy at study who to draft in the later rounds. When booed after getting introduced, Wang bows to his loyal Islander fans and thanks them for their continuing support.
With their fourth round pick the Islanders draft Degeneation Rex, who joins other glorious mid round gems Loic Leduc and Stephon Williams. After being offered minimum wage, Rex decides to go back to teach high school science for a 39th year, though he could have become the oldest player in NHL history after sitting in on enough team meetings.
Islander fans are flocking to Barclays Center, all seats are available on Stub Hub for under a dollar.
Capuano says the Islanders are still not getting the bounces.
Butch Goring is getting mixed up again with an Islader roster that has 10 players with the same last name.
Posters on the Islanders Hockeysfiuture message boards continue complaining about Capuano in the Capuano must go thread, part 693.
The Islanders finish their first season in Brooklyn with a record of 3 wins 48 losses and 31 overtime losses, setting an NHL record for most consecutive OT losses with 89 going back to the 2012-13 season.
After the 2015 season Wang tells Athur Staple, the Islanders lone beat writer he was happy with the Islanders first season in Brooklyn, say the GM and coach are doing the best job in the NHL and have job
security for life.
Everything is just fine in Islander Country two years from now.
Note-The above post was written in San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury,1967 by an author who may have taken something he should not have. The author claims no responsibly for the mental illness caused by his beloved New York Islanders, showing no sense what so ever, needing to get a life and crying for help.
