I know a lot of people look at them as our partners in crime against the Rangers, but I have a deep disdain for the Islanders. It's not that I want to put them down, but what that franchise has become is nothing short of an embarrassment. You look at their history and it's pretty much nothing but futility with some memorable playoff upsets and a dynasty of all ****ing things mixed in there. It's so weird. But when you can look back at your history and point to almost 5 straight Cup wins, well there is no way a run like that should ever be followed up with 30 years of pure ****. I'm not dumping on their fans or their players, but from an operations perspective, that team has been handled like absolute garbage for so long and is pretty much the perfect example of what you don't want your franchise to be about. Nothing more than a gong show and here the league is enabling nonsense like this by allowing these trash transactions. Maybe I'm too harsh, I don't know, but I'll start having some respect when they finally start operating professionally. NJ was at a point like this as well 30 years ago, so things can change. But they also were never a former dynasty at that point ether. There just has to be a point when you finally start moving in the right direction. Maybe that will come in Brooklyn. Who knows?
