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NAME:

LOCATION:

AGE:

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER:

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER:

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR:

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS:

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER:

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT:


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NAME: Nick

LOCATION: Eastern Long Island

AGE: 45

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Rick DiPietro

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Mike Bossy

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 82 (I got to send off the team at republic airport on their way to Vancouver for the finals)

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Yankees

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Jeremy Roenick

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: 7:11(of course) and Chris Chambliss homer against the Royals in the '76 playoffs.

NAME: Mario

LOCATION: New Jersey

AGE: 31

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Rick DiPietro & Dave Scatchard (Sorry..couldn't just pick one)

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Billy Smith

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: Gott go with the return to the playoffs against Toronto (was only 6 when they started winning cups..so can't really go there)

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: NY GIANTS / NY METS / SL BENFICA

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: That's tough...gonna have to think about this one..I'll update later.

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: NY Giants 1986 SuperBowl Victory over the Broncos

NAME:Linda aka gypsy

LOCATION:Amityville

AGE:56

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER:Rick DP

FAVITE ALLTIMR ISLANDER:Bobby Nystrom

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 7:11 of course

FAVORITE NON-HOCKEY TEAMS: Jets, Mets,Benfica.

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT-Oct 7,1972, watching our beloved Isles play their first game in our own barn.

Is it late, are my eyes playing tricks on me.....or am I really reading this right?!?!


Gypsy...a Benfica fan?!?!?! :o

NAME: Tony D.

LOCATION: Pennsylvania (but moving to Lake Hopatcong, NJ

AGE: 37

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: A toss up between Ricky and Trent Hunter

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: This is a tough one - but Tonelli and Benoit Hogue are two that immediatly come to mind.

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: hmmm....it would have to have been 84-85 season, although they lost the cup that year, it was a season where I mostly remember watching the Islanders and coming to understand the sport...

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: None, although boating and fishing is a favorite summer hobby for me

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Steve Yzerman

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: eh, don't really have one...

Tony D.

NAME: Anthony

LOCATION: Woodmere

AGE: 23

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Sean Bergenheim (does he count)

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Pierre Turgeon/Benoit Hogue

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 82 Im a Stanley Cup Baby :) I have my baby picture taken inside the cup :D

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Giants, Yanks

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Gotta go with JR!

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: Giants win Super Bowl XXV

NAME: Dave

LOCATION: Brooklyn

AGE: 37

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Hunter, DiPietro

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Billy Smith

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 1975, 1980

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Denver Broncos, US Men's National Soccer Team, Manny Pacquaio, Liverpool, FC Cologne, NY Mets

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Eddie Giacomin (sorry)

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: Miracle on Ice, Isles first cup, Attending all World Cup games 1994 at Giants stadium, training in same gym as George Foreman, Broncos finally win Super Bowl, attending David Cone's perfect game (even though I am a Mets fan)

NAME: Adam

LOCATION: Elmont, NY

AGE: 25

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: DP

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Pierre Turgeon

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 2001

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Mets

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Sean Burke...Hartford Baby!

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: Isles beating the Pens in OT.

NAME: Vicki

LOCATION: Levittown, NY and section 332

AGE: :ph43r:

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: oh i :wub: them all

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 2007 :yea:

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: 49ers- yep California girl and in my day……they were the best

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Maurice "Rocket" Richard

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: anytime the 49ers play the Packers- Dad’s favorite team was the Packers and every time they played- we got together, now that he has passed away…those are the most memorable moments and anytime I am with the gang-- anywhere-- its always MEMORABLE!

NAME: Jerry

LOCATION: Lake Grove

AGE: 71 (oh my god)

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: you name em, I love em

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Tonelli

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: all but the late 90’s

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Mets, Jets, Ducks (?)

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Ray Bourque

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: Tonelli scoring on Chico for the 15th consecutive win.

NAME: Rob Kemp

LOCATION: Atlanta, GA

AGE: 30

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Ricky D

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Kelly Hrudey, of Course!

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 1993

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: University of Georgia, NY Yankees, Dallas Cowboys

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Bill Guerin

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: Yankees 1996 World Series Title

NAME: John

LOCATION: New Hyde Park, NY

AGE: 21

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Rick DiPietro

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Pierre Turgeon

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 1993 Drive for Five

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Mets and Jets

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Eric Lindros (pre-Scott Stevens... I absolutely hate him now, he's a shell of his former self and he plays like a woman)

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: well I'll go with only events I attended... and its a tie between 1993 Game 4 vs. Washington and 2002 Game 4 vs. Toronto

NAME: Brian

LOCATION: NJ

AGE: 31

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Mark Parrish

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: LaFontaine & Hrudey

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: ?????

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Dallas Cowboys, NY Mets, NY Knicks

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Chris Drury, Roenick, Jerome Iginla

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: Easter Epic

NAME: TOM

LOCATION: NEXT TO IQ

AGE: 45

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: ASHAM-(SOMETHING IS WRONG WHEN IT TAKES 10 MINUTES TO THINK OF ONE)

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: BILLY SMITH

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 1980

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: NONE

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: BRODEUR

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: BEING 5 ROWS BEHIND THE NET IN MSG AND WATCHING GILLIES TURN HOSPODAR INTO A LIVING PEZ DISPENSER

NAME: Mike

LOCATION: Pequannock, NJ

AGE: 30

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Was KJ. I guess Scatchard or Asham

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Bossy or KJ

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 82-83 & 01-02

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Georgetown Basketball, Cowboys

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Osgood

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: Bates' penalty shot

REAL NAME (OPTIONAL): TOM

LOCATION: OCALA, FL (ASSISTANT CAPTAIN OF IC FLORIDA CHAPTER)

AGE: 21

HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN AN ISLE FAN: 12 YEARS GOING ON 13 (As far as i can remember)

FAV. ISLES PLAYER CURRENT: TRENT HUNTER/ MIRO SATAN

FAV. ISLES PLAYER ALL TIME AND WHY: ZIGGY PALFFY! Simple, i first started watching isle hockey in 1993, i was old enough to understand that turegeon got cheap shotted by hunter and then everyone was gone. when i really knew the team person by person, ziggy was the person that stood out of all the rest, even w/ the likes of WENDAL CLARK, MATTEAU SNIEDER,and TREVER LINDEN, BERTUZZI, McCABE, BERARD, FICHAUD.
you knew when ziggy touched the puck he was going to score! or atleast the goalie would have to make a terrific save or he'd hit the post!

First isles game attented: sens vs isles...dec. 1996! two highlights: ziggy scores w/ .17 left in the second on an awesome deak and one of our chump players got put through the glass... we lost 4-1

Best islander moment: watching volek pass to farrero for the win in 1993 on a saturday afternon w/ gary thorne on commentary! bye-bye pens! and when the isles made it back into the playoffs for the first time in 7 years officially w/ a home win over philly to end the season.
#2) GAME in tampa in march 16,2004..win 3-1 coming back from 1-0. it was my third isle game over all.. awesome team effort..my current record in seeing the isles play= 2-4!
#3)GAME 2 of this year's playoffs...my first playoff game ever (unfortuantely it was away) but they shutout the bolts 3-0 on blakes 2 and a ninnima PP goal! just great to watch the bolt fans leave w/ 8 minutes left in the game

Least current islander: YASH

Least fav. alltime islander: muller

second team: aves (except barnaby) ANY TEAM VS THE RAGS!

fav. non-islander player: JEROME IGINLA (ziggy palffy)

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY TEAMS: METS (baseball) JAGUARS(football) GATORS(college football/baseball) Lake Wier Hurricanes (highschool ALMA MATA baseball team) Tony Stewart (nascar)

OH YEAH!!! Born in Benfica, on the day I was born my father made me a member of the fan club. To the day he died my dad was a member, Used to go back to Portugal to see Benfica play. My favorite player is Eusebio, whom I met and who is a nice guy. Nothing wrong with your eyes :D

WOW!!!!

Now that is some good sh!t right there!!!

I was born in Lisbon too..and actually went back a few years ago and ran into Eusebio at the stadium. I see him pretty often here in Newark (I live in a BIG Portuguese community) and Eusebio is usually here 4-5 times a year...especially over the summer.

So I'm guessing you probably still keep up with it?
BIG GAME this week: Benfica vs. Sporting with both teams tied for the top spot, and Porto right behind them. BENFICA HAS TO WIN THIS GAME DAMN IT!!!!

I try to keep up with it, but it's hard. Not too many Portuguese where I live, so I go into Mineola to get the papers and see how Benfica is doing. Is there a webb site where we can go to check on soccer over there?

There are a few good websites...but here's my favorite:

SL-BENFICA.net


It's a message board, and the posters really do a good job of recapping games and updating the standings. Pretty active site.

Obrigado, meu amigo.

De nada!! Sempre para uma amiga e Benficista!!!

Welcome to Hockey Fans Anonymous.... leave all shart implements with the guard at the door...

Thank you...


NAME: Dee

LOCATION: Beautiful, downtown Sayville, NY

AGE: GUESS! comeon! Guess! Ok... Old enough to be Anthony's Mother. Happy now!

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: If you have to ask... you're not listening.

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Clark... and Ray (of Hope) Ferraro.

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: '02, '03, '04...

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: There are sports OTHER than hockey???

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Keith Primeau, Broduer, and others that I'm not allowed to mention in my household.

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: risking divorce to go to Columbus for an exhibition game of the world cup in August. 2nd most memorable... Having my husband surprise me with tickets to the Sept 2 & 3rd games in St. Paul MN....

Most DISTURBING Sports Momen: Having to threaten a bartender at the Irish coffee pub to put Game 5, Isles vs. Tampa on the TV in the downstairs bar while I was attending a retirement dinner upstairs. Then having to sit there and watch them lose in overtime. I cried for a half an hour. Not a pretty sight.

It wouldn't be that pesky little guy in your avatar would it?

:P

(sorry, couldn't resist)

NAME: Ed

LOCATION: Bronx NY

AGE: 17

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Hunter

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Palffy

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 2003

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Yankees Giants Bulls

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Ziggy Palffy

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: Bates penalty shot and Boone HR

Why dont you try being there! I was in row 4or5 and i had to climb up 20 something rows to get to the exit and the fans tormenting us while we where goin up! And thats not all...I was sittin behind a ranger fan!!!! I mean I know that some people got worse than I did but yeah Dee try bein there :lol:

i was with anthony. You have no clue! Ranger fans look like angels compared to bolt fans. i was really fearing for my life. :ph43r: I mean we had snow balls thrown at us. I say that b/c they shaved the ice and braught it outside to throw at a manaquin with an isles jersey on :angry:

Yeah I know you where there! Remember how close we where to winning that game!!!! You know what though, its been a dream of mine to see a Islander playoff game! NEXT SEASON ITS AT THE BARN!

NAME: Jordan

LOCATION: Fairfax, VA (Metro-DC Area)

AGE: 24 (on May 17)

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Rick DiPietro or Adrian Aucoin. gptta add Bergie as well

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Marc Bergevin, Pierre Turgeon or Ziggy Palffy

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: '93, '02

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Braves, Falcons (yes I was a Falcon fan when Jeff George was QB'ing, and I still remember Oddibe McDowell and Jody Davis playing on the Braves) and FSU

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Ziggy Palffy or Paul Kariya (Was Kevin Dineen)

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: '95 World Series, Dave Justice's HR.... Traveling up to LI from DC for the two Toronto Games and seeing Bates' goal live.


Thats about all. Like I said at IC, I work @ XM radio in DC so if any of you have it, you can hear me from 2-10pm on the New York traffic station!

NAME: Gary

LOCATION: Aventura, Fl

AGE: 39

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Yashin

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Duane Sutter

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: 1993 ( my son was born the night we eliminated Washington)

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Mets

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Iginla

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: Morrow scoring in O.T. to eliminate the Rags.


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Name: Dan

Location: Manorville, Long Island

Age: 19

Favorite Current Islander: I want to say Steve Webb, but I'll go with one under contract. Trent Hunter

Favorite Alltime Islander: Kenny Jonsson

Favorite Islander Year: 2001

Favorite Non-Hockey Sport Team: Stony Brook Seawolves

Favorite Non-Islander Player(s): Shane Doan, Pavol Demitra

Most Memorable Sports Moment: My First Ice Hockey game, potting a hat trick

NAME: Mel

LOCATION: Ca-Na-Da!

AGE: 21

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Gotta be Adrian Aucoin, with DP as a close 2nd. From what I hear he was incredible in the came today, though unfortunately it wasn't televised here. <_<

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Well, since I'm kinda new to the Islanders scene I'll go with Pfalffy.

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Non-hockey, or just non-Islanders, because I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a fan of the Leafs! :P And my local boys, the Kitchener Rangers. But the only sport I watch other than hockey, is football, and my love for the Tampa Bay Bucs, I have to admit, has been forced on me, but it's there! ;)

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: Well I'm a new fan, only really started to follow them this year, but lemme tell you I watched every single playoff game and I damn near cried at the last one. But it was a great season.

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Jerome Iginla... love him.

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: I was a kid, and my mum let me stay up late to watch the Toronto Blue Jays game, when they won their first of two-in-a-row World Series'. Now I can't stand the sport.

So Mel let me get this straight. You became an Islander fan (even if it's your second favorite team) AFTER the '01 series, and being a Leaf fan. Wow I think that is unprecedented.

Well, let's get one thing straight... Peca's a bitch in my books! :rolleyes: I can't stand the guy... it's the rest of the team I support! Ditch Peca (alright, alright, Yashin too) and you'll have a real team.

If it weren't for fantasy hockey, I probably wouldn't have given the Isles a chance. But I'll be damned if last season team Melbatoasty didn't draft Kvasha, Aucoin, Dipietro, Yashin, and Hamrlik. It was damn near half of my team! :lol: I watched a couple of Islanders games and I was hooked. ^_^ I ended up ditching Yashin and Hamrlik and later picked up Czercawski and Hunter (the later was smart, the former was probably not) and held on to a few others in between. But I must say, the team really evolved a lot while I was watching and I grew to love (all but one) of 'em! Aucoin's my man though. I love that guy. Everything a defenceman should be.

Trent Hunter was the first pick in my draft SERIOUSLY!

No way!! :lol: That's amazing!! I mean, I wouldn't say he's "first-pick" worthy, but certainly not a disappointment. My first pick was Dany Heatley. That was an unfortunate oversight on my part... Who the hell forgets to remove Dany Heatley from their draft list???? The guy was practically in a full body cast at the beginning of last season. I'm never gonna let myself live that down.

Ok well maybe im exadurating(sp) but I did pick him in my draft...I knew that he was gonna have a big year especially playing in Bridgeport the year before and watching him play in the Toronto series! So I know that he had the skills too bad Stirling had him in and out of the lineup for the first 4-6 weeks of the season!

NAME: John

LOCATION: Deer Park

AGE: 55

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Rico

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Bryan Trottier

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: All of them, 1980 stands out.

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: New York Yankees

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Steve Yzerman and Ray Borque

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT: Live, Dave Righettis No Hitter. TV, 7:11 of OT. My landlord came down, thought someone had died.
:lol:

NAME: Steve

LOCATION: Formerly: North Babylon
Current: Sunny FLA
AGE: 40

FAVORITE CURRENT ISLANDER: Dave Scatchard

FAVORITE ALLTIME ISLANDER: Denis Charles Potvin

FAVORITE ISLANDER YEAR: Don’t have one but if I had to pick 1976 and 1982

FAVORITE NON HOCKEY SPORTS TEAMS: Mets

FAVORITE NON ISLANDER PLAYER: Current: Mats Sundin, Bryan Leetch
All-Time: Bobby Orr, Johnny Bower

MOST MEMORABLE SPORTS MOMENT:
Classic:
Sitting with my Dad watching Ken Morrow lug it up center ice and scoring an empty netter against the Oil.
Current:
Dave Scatchard tossed my 4 yr old a puck during warm-ups when we saw the lads play in NC against the Hurricanes.

P5 GLAD YOU FINALLY MADE IT