Islanders Talk

Because I know we have some Islanders fans here....

We had Newsday’s Islanders beat writer Alan Hahn on live with us tonight on my 100% commercial-free, no one makes a dime from it, Long Island Sports Talk radio show.

Please go here for the interview:
http://hosted.filefront.com/patchyfogg

Here is a list of topics discussed in the approximately 32 commercial-free minute interview:

--Mike Milbury
--GM Search
--Dean Lombardi
--John Weisbrod
--Steve Tambellini
--Brent Sutter
--Peter Laviolette
--Isles & The Trade Deadline
--Buying out Alexei Yashin
--Cliques/Brad Lukowich’s Comments
--Rick DiPietro
--Lighthouse
--Mark Parrish
--Oleg Kvasha
--The March 4th Islanders Reunion
--Wayne Gretzky
--The US Olympic Hockey team/USA Hockey
--The new owner/player “partnership”
--Fans coming back
--Hockey down the stretch
--Islanders prospects
--What the Isles need for next year
--Steve Stirling
--Brad Shaw
--Ask Alan mailbag

As always, thanks and please tell a friend.

Re: Islanders Talk

Last night we had New York Post Islanders beat writer Evan Grossman on with us on my no one makes a dime from it Long Island Sports Talk radio show.

The 52 commercial-free minute interview is up at

http://hosted.filefront.com/patchyfogg

Here's an outline of what was discussed:

--The Islanders’ performance this week/the Rangers game

--Team chemistry/make-up after the Trading Deadline

--The search for a new General Manager

--Mike Milbury’s continued involvement with the team

--A Yashin buyout?

--Brad Shaw

--Mark Parrish

--Unrestricted Free Agents

--Sean Bergenheim

--O’Marra and Comeau

--Bringing back guys like Bossy and Trottier into the organization

--Media coverage of the Isles/NHL this year (or lack thereof)

--The “New NHL”

--Why he wants more hitting in the League

--Why he’s always loved the Shootout and what needs to be improved with it

--The Coliseum, now and in the future

--Ownership

--The futures for Snow and Blake

--Crosby/Ovechkin/Lundquist

--How the playoffs are shaping up

--Tim Horton’s Coffee and Donuts which led to a Steve Webb discussion

--Non-Hockey Stuff—SNY/Duke Lacrosse/Mets

--Why he hates covering baseball games when the season is over

--DiPietro taking batting practice