Unfortunately, I arrived at this presentation late, but I still got a nice glimpse of the future of the franchise’s new home.

The Lighthouse! When can I start the fan club!

Seeing the brochures (will be coming out very soon), it brings the whole package into a little better focus. However, at the Reckson Building, myself, and some other Booster Club Board members, got to see the 3-D version of the package. This makes the whole picture of the project just spring into life.

How the arena will look, all the amenities, shops, restauraunts, all the things that fans have seen from other arenas around the NHL. Now, hopefully, in a few years time, those can come to us!

We were even quoted on the www.lighthouseli.com web site (well, at least my WIFE was!)

“After seeing the presentation and the site from the Lighthouse office we were able to get a better perspective on the project,” said Claire Harding, President of the New York Islanders Booster Club. “The Booster Club does a lot of charity work that is valuable to the community and a place like the Lighthouse would help us increase our membership and host very exciting fundraising events. We support the Lighthouse, the benefits of the project to Long Island are too significant to let slip away and a project like this is long overdue to the area. We came out of the meeting anxious for the project to begin.”

My wife - the media darling!

Now the Hempstead town has put this on the fast track, this project now seems much more than just a dream in the heads of Islanders/Reckson management. It now has a piece of reality on it, and the vision of better things to come.

Nice - now - let’s move forward… Garth - your turn to shine, and improve the team.

The season is over. In the weeks from now - I will talk about this further. I have not written in a while, because I was on vacation, and the beginning of the month is a little tough for me.

I am very proud of the guys, and the way that they handled themselves through the difficult time of the season.

And I will get to that - I promise - as the weeks go on.

However, I have to comment of the Hummer Metro Ice Challenge. The fact that the Isles and Rangers ended up tied in points, but according to Sam Rosen, did not win because the tie breaker is the position in the overall standings instead of head-to-head competition, is one big load of CRAP!

1. The Isles had 11 wins over the competition, as opposed to the Rangers 10
2. The Isles won 5 of the 8 games in the head-to-head series.

If that alone does not solve a tie-breaker, then what does…..

This just looks like a bully organization that the MSG is. They were tied, but DO NOT DESERVE the victory of the challenge!!!!!

Just add another obnoxious item to the list of things that they have done. From the folks that think Isiah Thomas is the next coming of Moses….

C’mon Dolan and MSG. Admit you were beaten by the 26th place team in the NHL and move on. That charity money should be going towards the Islanders children’s foundation. Stop being such babies and do the right thing!