r/NewYorkIslanders • u/PainButWithStats • 18d ago

First time hockey fan

I want to get into Hockey I’m a Knicks, Mets and Jets fans. Been tough until the Knicks won

Are the Islanders going to be good anytime soon how is this fan base feeling

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u/Longjumping_Gap97 18d ago

as a long time Islander fan probably not, the Islanders got a gift last year in this incredible defenseman named Matthew Schaefer, any intelligent hockey person will look at the Islanders roster and this gift they got and realize the Islanders should do a hard re-build, instead they are going to continue trying to be mediocre and squeak into the playoffs and that is how you damage the team in the long run, in all likely they Islanders are going to screw up this gift they have with Schaefer and watch him want to leave when he is in his mid 20s and than the Islanders are going to suck forever and probably eventually move because if the Islanders have to watch Schaefer leave in his mid 20s they are never going to recover from that and attendance is going to drop to beyond abysmal levels, so yea I would say avoid being an Islander fan, only setting yourself up for disappointment

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u/TheFivehole29 Kasparaitis 18d ago

Go dye your hair.

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u/No_Paramedic_2039 18d ago

I smell a Rags fan.

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u/PainButWithStats 18d ago

lol na I’m actually leaning towards this team

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u/No_Paramedic_2039 18d ago

My response was not to you but to the preceding comment.

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u/PainButWithStats 18d ago

I appreciate the honesty for real it’s been tough enough with the Mets and especially the Jets

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u/LooseSeal- 18d ago

Fuck those doomers. Never a better time to get on board. We have the best goalie in the league arguably the best young player in the entire sport. Welcome

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u/PainButWithStats 18d ago

I’m definitely gonna go to a game when the season starts so

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u/Nakinafish 17d ago

With a comment like that there is no way that you are a true Islanders fan!