March 24 2010 by Scott.

Well today in the mail I rec’d a letter from the Town of Hempstead explaining how they should be praised for jumpstarting the “stalled Lighthouse development.”  Well for example the 1st part of it is titled why do we need a “jump start.”  They use a couple paragraphs explaining why we need a jumpstart saying things like if the TOH board didn’t act then the project would’ve remained in limbo for a very long time.  To that I say if you people had done your d@mn jobs in the first place none of this would’ve happen.  If Supervisor Murray had acted like a town Supervisor from this century from the beginning instead of citing some ridiculous policies and letting Party boss Joe Mondello call the shots maybe we would be somewhere.  But of course she let Mondello call the shots and everyone knows Mondellos about the person who does him the most favors. 

 If you remember a couple months ago newsday ran a story which included the detail that Charles Wang failed to hire Joe Mondellos friend Al D’amatos brother.  In my opinion if he had hired D’amatos brother then construction would’ve started on the Lighthouse a long time ago.  But because Wang didn’t want to bring a known criminal into the Lighthouse group.  What a terrible thing right, not to want to hire a criminal into your business.  It is ridiculous in my opinion that they are essentially punishing him for not hiring D’amatos brother.  I am sure that wasn’t the only reason they sat on this thing but I am sure it had something to do with it. 

After keeping him in limbo for multiple years they want to now start things up so they can take the credit!  These people are a joke and make me sick!!  I figured a couple months ago they would probably do something like this because their attention hogs and want themselves to be praised and not Charles because their daddys Mondello and D’amato don’t like him.  The fact that they won their elections by a land slide says something about this town.  It says either that the people of the town aren’t educated on the issues and the way the TOH has handled them or they just don’t give a crap and were voting for the party regardless of their position on issues and the ultimate betterment of their community. 

She also says that in her opinion the building of the Lighthouse would be like adding a mini-city to the area.  If she felt that way why couldn’t she tell that to Wang months if not years agao and let him make the proper alterations?  I will tell you why because she rec’d instructions from Mondello to sit on this and hope it goes away.  But when it didn’t and it garnered as much public support as it did they realized they would have to act on it.  Which led to our summer of public hearings and protests then they sat on it again which wasn’t helped by the Lighthouse not paying FP Clarke and going dark after 10/3. 

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March 24 2010 by Scott.

Today our New York Islanders got our butt handed to us by the rival New York Rangers 5-0.  Here are some of my notes:

Roloson is the only guy on the team who can say that they had a good game.  Everyone else on the team had sub par games
Refs were ok
Best part of the game in my opinion was when Gillies mugged Avery

 If you have anything to add post in comments

Next Game: Tomorrow @ Home VS The Flames

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March 24 2010 by Scott.

Tonight our New York Islanders will be traveling to the Garden to take on the Queen Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers.  I would expect to see Dwayne Roloson in net.  Also according to Chris Botta Trevor Gillies will be in the lineup tonight in place of Jeff Tambellini.  According to Botta these are the projected lines to start tonight:

“Moulson - Tavares - Comeau

Sim - Nielsen - Okposo

Bergenheim - Bailey - Hunter

Gillies - Park - Jackman

Meyer - Hillen

Streit - Gervais

Kohn - Reese

Roloson

Biron”

Switch Sim and Bergy and I can live with it!!  I can’t stand Jon Sim as a top 6 forward!!! 

I have also heard that Sean Avery battling a foot injury is probable for this game and Ryan Callahan is questionable. 

To those going representing the right colors best of luck to you!  Hopefully we are able to put the final nail in the Rangers playoff coffin and at the same time move a point behind them.  Also there is a viewing party tonight at Champions in the Marriot:

http://ow.ly/1qsLU

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March 24 2010 by Scott.

Well if you were unaware Anton Volchenkov had quite a game last night.  His night consists of:

-Destroying Daniel Carcillo on a hit in the neutral zone
-Hitting Simon Gagne from behind and having Gagne get 19 PIMS for it
-Stopping a goal from going across the line (according to the refs)

Here are the videos of the instances above courtesy of yahoos puck daddy:

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March 24 2010 by Scott.

According to William Houston of truthandrumors.net there is speculation among NHL insiders that this will be the last season for NHL discipline czar Colin Campbell.  Heres a link to his article to read more:

http://www.truthandrumours.net/2010/03/24/this-could-be-colin-campbells-final-season-as-nhl-sheriff/

In my opinion this would be great and 110% the right decision for the NHL!  Colin has no clue what hes doing, some say he follows the suspension flow chart to determine punishments.  (Google that if you have never heard of it)  I have been hoping for his firing for quite some time now!!  I hope the NHL finally wises up and relieves Colin of his duties!

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