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NY Isles Lighthouse Project: The Rabbit-Hole Goes as Far as the Republican GOP?

We have been on top of the Lighthouse Project issues ad nauseum. Later this week, on Thursday, March 26, at 7pm at the Long Island Marriott in Uniondale, the Lighthouse Development Group will host a Community Outreach Education session...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 8 months ago 151 reads 1 comments
Magic Pill: NY Islanders Must Have Top Draft Pick, Plus Lighthouse Project

"One pill makes you tallerAnd one pill makes you smallAnd the ones that mother gives youDon't do anything at all"- Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit" Pill #1: Top Draft Pick or BUST! Wouldn't ...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 8 months ago 97 reads 0 comments
PREDICTION: Who Will Be the Next Captain of the NY Islanders?

When Bill Guerin was sent to Steel Town USA, it was clear to why he was sent away. In his last year on the Isles, it was very obvious that the paths of some vets diverged between the Isles amid a rebuild...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 8 months ago 154 reads 2 comments
NY Islanders' Lighthouse Dogs: A Bloody Standoff Developing Over Nassau Coliseum

In Quentin Tarantino's first film, Reservoir Dogs, we are invited into a jewel heist gone horribly wrong and witness as the after-effects cause each member to fight with one another...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 8 months ago 186 reads 0 comments
Drats! TheNew York Islanders Win Again! Plus Lighthouse Follies in Newsday

With Bill Guerin shipped to the Pittsburgh Penguins for a glorified bag of pucks, one of the last speedbumps to Gordon's overspeed system has been removed...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 9 months ago 69 reads 0 comments
Trade Deadline D-Day for New York Islanders Fans: D for Likely Disappointment

While teams gather themselves for a playoff run or shed for fire sale, the NY Islanders are in a different place altogether (besides dead last). They cannot jettison too many players lest they fall below the plimsoll line that the cap minimum capitulates.

Written by B.D. Gallof about 9 months ago 127 reads 1 comments
It's a Bird...It's a Plane...No, It's Another Mess by the New York Islanders

Leave it for the NY Islanders to make another public relations masterpiece theater over the simple sitting of their captain for a game. Bill Guerin seems destined to not only land somewhere else, but to have a few choice opinions on how it was done...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 9 months ago 45 reads 1 comments
NY Islanders' Sale Rumor Causes All Internet Hell to Break Loose

I was asked by several people for my take on an online fiasco involving that the Isles might be for sale under $100 million dollars...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 9 months ago 337 reads 4 comments
NY Islanders Might Not Be Moving Anywhere Due To Coliseum Lease Till 2015

It looks like I will have to be doing a series on the press and blog hype over the Mexican standoff between the Town of Hempstead and the NY Islanders/Lighthouse Project this season...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 10 months ago 371 reads 1 comments
Possible Things Sean Avery Is Up to Now!

I am sure you all have been wondering on what Sean Avery has been up after the Dallas Star's declared he was anathema after his "sloppy seconds" debacle earlier this season...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 10 months ago 242 reads 3 comments
Are the NY Islanders' Woes Due to Bad Luck or Overspeed?

There are 35 games left to what has been an excruciating season for Islander fans. If we look back at the last 35, it would take us all the way back to Nov. 4th, when the Isles won a slew of games and were actually making some think about ...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 10 months ago 170 reads 3 comments
New York Islanders: Changes Are Coming

New York Islanders GM Garth Snow's decision late last season to rebuild right before the trade deadline was when this internal discussion got really hot. A new framework was installed on reality versus expectations in Islanders Country...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 10 months ago 589 reads 2 comments
New York Islanders' Kansas City Situation Is Decadent and Depraved

I sit in my blog semi-retirement wearing a hawaiian shirt, bermuda shorts, and smoke a large cigar. I sip Don Julio tequila as I relax, and let the sun wash over me...

Written by B.D. Gallof about 10 months ago 579 reads 9 comments
Who Is The Most Powerful In Sports These Days? YOU!

It used to be a clear case of who was high on the totem pole of the sports in the United States. Sure it might change time to time with a new fresh face of some new star behemoth or some money-spending owner...

Written by B.D. Gallof about about 1 year ago 297 reads 3 comments
Barry Melrose to Light It Up in Tampa Bay?

Perhaps you are still scratching your head, wondering how the cream puff who covered hockey on ESPN suddenly found his way to another coaching gig...

Written by B.D. Gallof about about 1 year ago 403 reads 0 comments
Don Imus: Issues Lost in a Snake Dance of Political Correctness

There was a change on Sept. 11. Perhaps you noticed. That event changed the climate of political correctness in our country. As a nation, we got scared, anxious, and frustrated. We seemed to stifle our own words...

Written by B.D. Gallof about about 1 year ago 840 reads 12 comments

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B.D. Gallof Article Archive

NY Isles Lighthouse Project: The Rabbit-Hole Goes as Far as the Republican GOP?

Magic Pill: NY Islanders Must Have Top Draft Pick, Plus Lighthouse Project

PREDICTION: Who Will Be the Next Captain of the NY Islanders?

NY Islanders' Lighthouse Dogs: A Bloody Standoff Developing Over Nassau Coliseum

Drats! TheNew York Islanders Win Again! Plus Lighthouse Follies in Newsday

Trade Deadline D-Day for New York Islanders Fans: D for Likely Disappointment

It's a Bird...It's a Plane...No, It's Another Mess by the New York Islanders

NY Islanders' Sale Rumor Causes All Internet Hell to Break Loose

NY Islanders Might Not Be Moving Anywhere Due To Coliseum Lease Till 2015

Possible Things Sean Avery Is Up to Now!

Are the NY Islanders' Woes Due to Bad Luck or Overspeed?

New York Islanders: Changes Are Coming

New York Islanders' Kansas City Situation Is Decadent and Depraved

Who Is The Most Powerful In Sports These Days? YOU!

Barry Melrose to Light It Up in Tampa Bay?

Don Imus: Issues Lost in a Snake Dance of Political Correctness

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