C’est la deuxième meilleure époque de l’histoire des îles. Oui, à des kilomètres de la dynastie. Mais c’est mieux que beaucoup de choses que nous avons eues pendant la majeure partie de notre demi-siècle de hockey. Vous vous souviendrez de cette période avec tendresse.
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VinPickles
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How anyone can look at the last 6 years and think ‘Fire Lou’ is beyond me.
Tavares era started in 09 imo
Would also call this the Lou era not the Barzal era
You could narrow it down to the Al Arbour, Mike Milbury, and Josh Bailey eras and that’s 46/51 seasons of Islanders history
Hmmm…it’s almost as if those of us who lived through the true dark ages of the 90’s rebuild era and have rebuked those doomers gloomers and negative nancies who say we are currently the worst team ever were right all along. We are NOWHERE near as bad as we were back then.
I would have KILLED for a roster like we have now back then. Horvat, Barzal, Sorokin, Pelech, Dobson…oh yeah those guys are so much worse than Joe Sacco, Brent Hughes, Kieth Acton, David Maley, Bob Beers, and Dean Cynoweth, and of course who could forget the pajama boy of our era Kirk Muller!
As much as we « hate » him now, posterity will look at Tavares positively.
Cool to see it like this, however:
1. Rather than Yashin Era i’d probably call it the Wang Revival and then the Garth Snow Rebuild. The 1st era was defined by Wang buying the team and actually spending some money. And then it’s Snow who ushered in the rebuild and drafted a lot of those guys.
2. The Tavares Era starts in 2012-2013 when he willed them to the playoffs. You can’t have a playoff appearance run through a rebuild era. His era includes that and then the awful 2013-2014 season.
3. Instead of Barzal Era I kind of like calling 2018-2023 the Trotz era (Lane last year was a Trotz protege so it can count) and then 2024 starts the Roy Era. But idk we’ll see if it ends up being an era.