New York Islanders and their new "face"

Another season of the NHL is about to begin and we already have sports writers making their bold claims that a certain "far from paradise" team has a new face that may allow them to reach the post season. The New York Islanders last season had a crappy record of 26-47-9. Awesome!...not. They were THE worst team in the NHL last season so naturally they would get the first pick in the draft. The sub-par Islanders chose John Tavares to become their new poster boy. That's like hiring John Travolta to star in Battlefield Earth. The kid is good but can one person bring the whole team to the postseason? Not ONE player on the Islanders last year scored more than twenty goals. uhbuhhhhhh??!! That can be understandable for Defensive players, but starting forwards? Heck no. John Tavares, in his four seasons playing for the OHL's Oshawa Generals scored 183 goals. In his 06-07 season he scored 72 goals. Wow. No doubt he will help the Islanders this year but with that bunch of monkeys doing arts and crafts that he calls "teammates", he'll be working hard.

I will however acknowledge that the Isle's do have some young talent as support for Tavares but its not enough to reach the goal of making it to the big hootinanny...or what have you. They might just be the team that will be a little tougher to beat this year. Really though, anything is better from last year. sheesh.