[The Athletic] Lors de la série Islanders-Rangers Stadium en 2014, Thomas Vanek était au milieu du chaos de l’équipe

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1. ratedPG44 9 mois ago

   From Article:

   “Once you get traded there, you get to know what the Island is all about and man, I fell in love with that place,” Vanek said earlier this week from his home in Minnesota. “The people are a little crazy, kind of like a European soccer crowd, and I just loved it. The chanting at the Coliseum, sometimes a little vulgar. The way they showed up at the Garden for Isles-Rangers games. The passion is high level.

   “Literally after being there for 48 hours, I loved it. I knew Grabs (Michael Grabner) a bit, a fellow Austrian. I knew Okie a little bit. But Johnny, Cappy (coach Jack Capuano), Dougie (assistant coach Doug Weight), Garth — it was a first-class organization that I didn’t know anything about.”

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   “I had three young boys at the time, it was already announced the team was moving to Brooklyn and I just couldn’t see my family enjoying that long commute,” he said. “The team not being good was not an issue — I knew they were gonna be good. I loved Garth, he knew what he needed to get and he went and got it with (Johnny) Boychuk and (Nick) Leddy the next year. The team was never an issue.

   “I loved the Coli — sometimes less is more. The move to Brooklyn — that’s the one thing I didn’t fall in love with. I don’t know how many games the family would have gone to. Speaking to the guys after the move, some days it wasn’t so bad, some days they hated it. It’s great they have that new building now. I wish they’d have gotten it 10 years ago, I would have stayed longer.”

2. karokajoka 9 mois ago

   That Vanek – JT – Okposo line was amazing for the short time he was here.

3. theduder999 9 mois ago

   Becoming a Vanek fan again wasn’t on my Saturday honey-do list, but here we are.