Excitement Building

We are almost there folks. Instead of being in Montreal as I originally had planned I will be at the Nassau Coliseum for either the celebration (Tavares) or the potential riot (anybody else).

The Isles will have a jersey personalization machine setup for those nuts like myself who horde jerseys like Brian Burke hordes newspaper quotes.TAVARES 91 PLEASE!

Couple of great features from the TSN boys up north.
http://watch.tsn.ca/nhl/clip186859#clip186859
http://watch.tsn.ca/nhl/clip186861#clip186861

"When we won the draft lottery I was asked if I knew who we were going to take. I said at the time that I had a pretty good idea but that I wasn't firmly committed to it until we went through the process of doing our due diligence on all the top guys. Let's just say the process re-affirmed what I thought back then. We want the same guy now that we wanted back then." -- Islanders General Manager Garth Snow

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=431650

http://www.newsday.com/sports/hockey/islanders/ny-spisles2512915130jun24,0,2877956.story

http://communities.canada.com/theprovince/blogs/kurtenblog/archive/2009/06/24/2009-nhl-draft-what-does-the-islanders-future-hold.aspx

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=263999&sc=99

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/2009/06/24/9916901-sun.html

http://communities.canada.com/theprovince/blogs/kurtenblog/archive/2009/06/24/kurtenthoughts-2009-nhl-draft-tavares-hedman.aspx

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1873659/a_tale_of_two_tavares.html

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/draft2009/columns/story?columnist=burnside_scott&id=4284013