Wow...i dunno what else to say, but Wang is like an little kid. Get over your ego. You are CLUELESS on how to run a hockey team. Why dont you alienate the few fans you have left by leaving out one of the last greats this team had(for a while at least)...moron. This article pissed me off beyond belief. Happy F#$%#%^ Tuesday
Wang just proving again how big of a POS he is and how clueless he is. Milbury is trying to bring controversy because he is a jackass and wants his name out there
The thing that really pisses me off is we have so many things like this to deal with in regard to Wang and the absolute circus like atmosphere HE HAS created...but to the outside world, the empty arena game after game is due to a fan base that only comes out when they are winning...drives me ****ing nuts.
No one ever gives thought to what's causing us to stay away...just that we are and that must make us a bunch of front-runners or whatever...just absurd and we have our wonderful owner to thank for that.
I have to admit... If I set something up and hire someone for it, who then decides after a month that he doesn't want to work under those conditions, then it's clear that we part ways - whether my set-up has its setbacks and is non-traditional or not.
If then another person in the group decides to leave of his own accord just to show solidarity for the guy who didn't want to work under the conditions under which I hired him, well then I simply bid that guy adieu as well and move on.
I wouldn't see any reason to need to associate with him again though and I would definitely feel 'slighted' by his need to compound the negativity of the situation rather than show the support for not so much my set-up, but the franchise itself.
I'd also then feel the need to put in folks I trust or have a good feeling about, conventional or not.
And the laughing stock franchise just keeps on churning out the LOLs, and once again in a bad way.
Did MM say his quotes with a straight face? Praise his candor all you want, his response comes purely to defend the man who paid him so much for so long for producing so little. "Pat ran for the hills?" Really, Mike? The need to smear LaFontaine is pretty classless, but in light of this article kind of fits right in.
How petty and insecure must an organization (Wang) be to not include LaFontaine's name on the charity press release?
Wang is entitled to his personal vendettas on those he may feel have slighted him or not shown loyalty, as petty as they might be. But you run an organization, especially a public one, a certain way. For a team starved for positive PR as the Isles are, this is just the latest in a series of sad, sad jokes.
They need a new owner, and soon. My displeasure with the people running this team is starting to overshadow my years of loving the franchise.
This article was sent to me by 3 friends today before I came here and was going to post it lol
for the record 1 is a ranger fan and the other 2 know absolutely nothing about Hockey but simply all 3 asked me the following question in some way shape or form.
"how can you honestly keep rooting for this team??"
Which my reply is - I dont know.
After so much hype last season, This season was a huge punch to the gut for me by this franchise and ownership looks to do nothing but follow the same path. So yeah my days of being a fan as long as this guy owns the team are waning down.
The Neil Smith thing always bothered me. This was a guy who hadn't worked for a long time before and hasn't worked since. I'll take a moment to remind that while Pat tried to talk Wang out of cutting him loose, Wang knew Smith hadn't signed a contract yet. smith ws the only candidate interviewed who pretended not to mind having a coach picked for him and a committe to work with. No one likes a liar.
I have no issue with what happened to Smith but the perception that Wang went wild and canned portrays Smith in a more favorable light than he deserves.
As for Pat, Wang favors loyalty above all including, I surmise, winning. Look at the flunkies he has kept around versus the people that have been cut loose. Much like Trots ( the outsider Wang brought bakc into the fold), Pat will return at some point. Hopefully sooner rather than later, he is a great guy.
The Neil Smith thing always bothered me. This was a guy who hadn't worked for a long time before and hasn't worked since. I'll take a moment to remind that while Pat tried to talk Wang out of cutting him loose, Wang knew Smith hadn't signed a contract yet. smith ws the only candidate interviewed who pretended not to mind having a coach picked for him and a committe to work with. No one likes a liar.
Interesting.
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As for Pat, Wang favors loyalty above all including, I surmise, winning. Look at the flunkies he has kept around versus the people that have been cut loose. Much like Trots ( the outsider Wang brought bakc into the fold), Pat will return at some point. Hopefully sooner rather than later, he is a great guy.
Welp, if anyone here possesses loyalty as key characteristic and corporate trait, looking for a job with this Isles team may not be the worst thing you could do.
Because it clearly didn't work. The GM had to have more autonomy. Having said this, the business structure was not a surprise to Smith. He knew what he signed up for.
He signed up to be part of a committee, not a dictatorship.
I still firmly believe that the firing of Neil Smith had a lot to do with not wanting to be the GM handing DiPietro a 15 year contract. Look how well that worked out of the team.
Wang Decisions:
Buy the team (Thank god otherwise there would be no Islanders)
Keep Milbury
Fire Smith
DiPietro 15 year contract
Fire Jaffe
Not renew Jankowski's contract and not even telling him about it
Blacklist Botta
Blacklist Lafontaine
He make so many horrific decisions but never seems to learn.
Wang is an indefensible owner at this point whose complete disdain for the government (all for reasons that make him hypocritical) and authority cost us an arena.
I'm a big Morrow fan and Kenny Jonsson is one of my all time favorites ,so I have no problem with either being inducted.
Kenny was always very underrated imo.
both were great islanders, i dont think the islanders hall of fame is about great players, its about players that were important to the team. that said how is Flatley there over LaFontaine? yeah i guess Flatley was the captain but i honestly cant recall him scoring any big goals, i seem to just remember him injured al the time, then him bolting to the Rags when milbury sent him packing
This organization keeps finding new and exciting ways to embarrass me. They are the paragon of unprofessionalism, complete with Milbury still trying to suckle at the teat for some ungodly reason.
complete with Milbury still trying to suckle at the teat for some ungodly reason.
Not sure if Neil Smith would've been the right guy for the job, but the main responsibility would've been to un-do all the damage caused by Milbury. It's pure deflection.
I have to admit... If I set something up and hire someone for it, who then decides after a month that he doesn't want to work under those conditions, then it's clear that we part ways - whether my set-up has its setbacks and is non-traditional or not.
If then another person in the group decides to leave of his own accord just to show solidarity for the guy who didn't want to work under the conditions under which I hired him, well then I simply bid that guy adieu as well and move on.
I wouldn't see any reason to need to associate with him again though and I would definitely feel 'slighted' by his need to compound the negativity of the situation rather than show the support for not so much my set-up, but the franchise itself.
I'd also then feel the need to put in folks I trust or have a good feeling about, conventional or not.
And Lafontaine was a long time favorite of mine.
Do you remember the reaction from the fans and press,when Wang fired Smith after 40 days?
The ridicule and criticism heaped on Wang and the franchise?
I think Wang looks at it like these guys knew the terms of the jobs,accepted them and then put him in a terrible position in the end.
Look,I am pissed at Wang for buying the team and not firing MM right away.I'm pissed at Wang for his salary cap games.I'm even pissed that he brushed aside Peltz's attempt to buy the franchise.I'm good and pissed that he won't sign an agreement to move to Brooklyn after 2015,making NYI twist in the wind.
I do not care about Wang's feud with Lafonatine or any possible hard feeling between him and Smith.Don't like the terms a potential new boss is offering ? Then don't take the job.
both were great islanders, i dont think the islanders hall of fame is about great players, its about players that were important to the team. that said how is Flatley there over LaFontaine? yeah i guess Flatley was the captain but i honestly cant recall him scoring any big goals, i seem to just remember him injured al the time, then him bolting to the Rags when milbury sent him packing
Lafontaine also bolted.I don't recall him carrying the team to any cups.
