“Busted.”
32. Richard Sandomir, “Spano Draws Prison Term for Fraud in Islanders Deal,” New York Times, January 29, 2000, D6.
33.
“Big
Shot.”
34. Gergen, “Isles Left in Dark.”
35.
Wolff,
“Busted.”
36. Joe Gergen, “Back to the Future,” Newsday, July 13, 1997, B8; “Spano’s Scheme Collapses, So the Ogre Returns!,” 7th Man, September 1997, 1.
37. Chris Botta, “Parting Shot: Mitch, Louis, Arthur and the Original 365,”
Blade, April 5– 11, 1997, 16; “Islander Fans Come Home!,” 7th Man, June 1, 1997, 7.
38. “Diary of an Islander Fan!,” 7th Man, April 15, 1997, 6.
254
NOTES TO PAGES 174–179
39.
“Big
Shot.”
40. “Spano’s Scheme Collapses, So the Ogre Returns!”
41. Beach, telephone interview; “Big Shot”; Richard Sandomir, “After Prison, Regret from Man Who Sold a Hoax to Try to Buy the Islanders,” New York Times, October 19, 2013, D6.
42. Steve Zipay, “Been There Before,” Newsday, July 24, 1997, A75.
43.
“Dancing
Decimals,”
Sports Illustrated, July 28, 1997, 24, 26.
44. John Valenti, “Pickett’s Promise,” Newsday, July 13, 1997, A7, A39.
45. Steve Zipay, “High- Powered Trio with an Eye to Buy,” Newsday, July 12, 1997, A4.
46. Jim Smith, “George on Ice?,” Newsday, August 27, 1997, A83.
47. John Valenti et al., “A Winner This Time?,” Newsday, September 12, 1997, A5, A48.
48. Ford Fessenden et al., “The Art of the Deal,” Newsday, September 12, 1997, A5, A48.
49. Steve Zipay, “Deal Done on Solid Ground,” Newsday, September 13, 1997, A42.
50. Steve Gluckstern, telephone interview with the author, September 14, 2015.
51. Valenti et al., “A Winner This Time?”
52. Pickett, telephone interview.
53. Faye S. Wolfe, “Growing Up Gluckstern,” Fall 2006, http:// www
.umassmag .com /2006 /Fall06 /FoundationNews /Gluckstern .html.
54. Craig Gordon, “Success Formula for Phoenix,” Newsday, September 14, 1997, A4, A23.
55. John Valenti, “On Thicker Ice,” Newsday, September 14, 1997, A5, A23; Gluckstern, telephone interview.
56. Ken Moritsugu, “Islanders Sold, Period,” Newsday, February 26, 1998, A3, A60.
57. “We Are Pleased to Announce Our Acquisition of the New York Islanders,” New York Times, March 2, 1998, A8; “Islanders Fan,” Newsday, February 27, 1998, B17.
58.
“Coming
Soon,”
Newsday, March 1, 1998, C34; Gluckstern, telephone
interview.
59. Jim Smith, “Trading Frenzy,” Newsday, February 7, 1998, A40.
60. Beach, telephone interview.
61. Jim Smith, “Owners’ Grand Stand,” Newsday, March 4, 1998, A76.
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NOTES TO PAGES 179–183
62. Jim Smith, “Appearance’s Sake,” Newsday, March 3, 1998, A61.
63. John Valenti, “Isles Flashback: Beating Flyers,” Newsday, March 4, 1998, A76.
64. Smith, “Owners’ Grand Stand.”
65. Dyan LeBourdais, “Tales of the Jersey,” June 28, 2010, http:// islanders
.nhl .com /club /news .htm ?id = 533047.
66. Croke, telephone interview; McDarby, telephone interview.
67. Tarik El- Bashir, “Islanders Keep Shooting and Find Hasek’s Seam,”
New York Times, March 7, 1998, C3.
68. Jim Smith, “Daigneault Always Player on the Move,” Newsday, March 9, 1998, A40.
69. Gluckstern, telephone interview; Pickett, telephone interview; Rose, telephone interview.
70. Jenny Kellner, “Act II: Milbury Again behind Islanders’ Bench,” New York Times, March 12, 1998, C1, C4.
71. “Diary of an Islander Fan!,” 7th Man, March 25, 1998, 6.
72. Tarik El- Bashir, “New Coach Will Try to Sell Isles on a Trapping Defense,” New York Times, January 23, 1999, D2.
73. Chynoweth, telephone interview; “Islanders Dismiss Assistant Coaches Chynoweth, Allen,” Calgary Herald, April 17, 2012, E2; Chynoweth, telephone interview.
74. Taylor, telephone interview.
75. Luongo, telephone interview.
76. Sherry Ross, “Jonsson’s Injury Has Isles Irked,” New York Daily News, December 20, 1998, 116.
77. Green, telephone interview.
78. Gluckstern, telephone interview; Erin St. John Kelly, “Mascots R
Them,” New York Times, February 15, 1998, CY4; “It’s a Special Family Fun Matinee!!!,” Blade, March 4– 8, 1997, insert; Allan Kreda, “A Mascot with a Fuzzy Future,” New York Times, April 6, 2015, D9.
79. Di Fiore, telephone interview.
80. Valenti, “Isles Flashback: Beating Flyers.”
81. Ken Moritsugu, “5- Year Wait for Arena,” Newsday, September 14, 1997, A4.
82. John T. McQuiston, “Talks on Arena for Islanders Resume,” New York Times, December 13, 1998, 58.
83. Rose, telephone interview.
256
NOTES TO PAGES 183–190
84. John T. McQuiston, “Nassau Coliseum’s Biggest Brawl Ever Is Off the Ice,” New York Times, October 4, 1998, LI1.
85. Rose, telephone interview.
86. Pilon, telephone interview.
EPILOGUE
1. David Israelson, “First, the Electronic Puck; Now, It’s ‘Fur’ Team Jerseys,” Toronto Star, January 24, 1996, B8.
2. Scalera, telephone interview.
3. Terry Pluto, “Cleveland Indians Owner Paul Dolan Says Team Is Keeping Chief Wahoo, but Not as Main Logo,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 1, 2016, http:// www .cleveland .com /pluto /index .ssf /2016 /04 /cleveland _indians _owner _paul _d _7 .html.
4. Mike Boone, “How Well Do You Know Your Habs?,” Montreal Gazette, October 11, 2011, B7; Iain Macintyre, “A History from Hideous to Splen-dour,” Vancouver Sun, February 13, 2016, C3.
5. Frank Brown, “New- Look Third Jerseys Are No Put- On,” New York Daily News, January 28, 1996, S69; Chris Peters, “Manchester Monarchs to Honor LA Kings’ Infamous ‘Burger King’ Jerseys,” August 15, 2013, http:// www .cbssports .com /nhl /eye -on -hockey /23165939 /manchester
-monarchs -to -honor -la -kings -infamous -burger -king -jerseys.
6. Barry Petchesky, “15 Seasons Later, the Blues’ Would- Be Third Jerseys Are Still the Worst Ever,” September 23, 2011, http:// deadspin .com
/5843301 /15 -seasons -later -the -blues -would -be -third -jerseys -are -still
-the -worst -ever.
7.
“Former
NHL Scam Artist Back in Trouble,” New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, June 20, 2015, D9.
8. Erik Larson, “71- Year- Old Money Manager Loses Appeal, Must Serve 20 Years,” Chicago Daily Herald, April 27, 2016, 2.
9. Patricia Hurtado, “Hedge Fund Manager Gets Prison, but No Teddy Bears,” Toronto Star, December 4, 2014, S10.
10. Patricia Hurtado, “Ex- CEO’s Greed in $2.2- Billion Fraud Lands Him 12 Years in U.S. Prison,” Vancouver Sun, November 3, 2006, H8.
11. Croke, telephone interview.
12. CamWest News Service, “Milbury Steps Down as Isles’ Senior VP,” Ottawa Citizen, May 30, 2007, B8; David Picker, “Nolan and Smith Are on Board and Aim to Turn Islanders Around,” New York Times, June 9, 2006, D7.
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NOTES TO PAGES 190–193
13.
Dave
Gross, “Milbury Is King of GM Blunders,” Montreal Gazette, February 10, 2008, B24.
14. “Starting Lineup 1995 Edition Kirk Muller Islanders,” http://
www .amazon .com /Starting -Lineup -1995 -Muller -Islanders /dp
/B0042LFC9C.
15. R
ichard Sandomir, “Isles’ New Ownership Hopes to Reinvent the Team,”
New York Times, April 27, 2000, D5.
16. Rob McGregor, “Check Out Jaroslav Halak’s Alternate Islanders Mask,”
In Goal Magazine, November 2015, http:// ingoalmag .com /masks /check
-out -jaroslav -halaks -alternative -islanders -mask/; Arthur Staple, “Isles Finished from the Start as Halak Is Pulled after First Period,” Newsday, November 21, 2015, A32.
17. Anthony Perrotti, Twitter post, November 20, 2015, 8:04 p.m., “Halak might want to take his new mask off cuz it’s clearly affecting his vision
#Isles,” https:// twitter .com /nutz4hky /status /667871156519763968.
18. Dan Martin, “Halak Struggles as Isles Routed at Home,” New York Post, December 16, 2015, 53.
19. New York Islanders, Instagram post, March 7, 2016, “The first 10,000
fans at tomorrow’s #Isles vs. Penguins game will take home a Jaroslav Halak mini helmet! There’s still time to get one. (Link in profile),” https://
www .instagram .com /p /BCq2qYREw0K/.
20. Arthur Staple, “Halak Hurt in Islanders’ Victory over Penguins,”
Newsday, March 9, 2016, 50.
21. Arthur Staple, “Jaroslav Halak to Miss 6 to 8 Weeks with Groin Injury,”
Newsday, March 10, 2016, 52.
22. Will Palaszczuk, Twitter post, March 9, 2016, 4:57 p.m., “There’s a special kind of bad karma to get a long term injury on a night tied to a promotion, Halak injured on his mask night,” https:// twitter .com /YSRWillP /status
/707686834889838592.
23. Eric Hornick, telephone interview with the author, March 18, 2014.
24. Schneider, telephone interview; Plante, telephone interview; Taylor, telephone interview; Kasparaitis, telephone interview; Halkidis, telephone interview.
25. Kruse, telephone interview; “Wendel Clark New York Islanders ‘Fisherman’ 1995 Authentic CCM Jersey New 48,” http:// www .ebay .com
/itm /WENDEL -CLARK -NEW -YORK -ISLANDERS -FISHERMAN
258
NOTES TO PAGES 194–195
-1995 -AUTHENTIC -CCM -JERSEY -NEW -48 - /272171745394 ?hash =
item3f5eb34072: g: 15gAAOSwr7ZW6CaP;Herter, telephone interview.
26. Smolinski, telephone interview.
27. Severyn, telephone interview; Reichel, telephone interview; Söderström, telephone interview; Green, telephone interview; Andersson, telephone interview; Pilon, telephone interview.
28. O’Hara, telephone interview. Contrary to O’Hara’s quote, Babe Ruth actually struck out 1,330 times. See “Babe Ruth,” Sports Reference, http:// www .baseball -reference .com /players /r /ruthba01 .shtml.
29. Calabria, telephone interview.
30. Beach, telephone interview.
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INDEX
Italicized figure numbers refer to illus-
147, 160, 191; in games, 98, 101,
trations following page 140.
109, 111, 134– 35; on Islanders’
prospects, 151, 165; and Milbury,
Aaker, David A., xix
90, 134– 35, 153, 161; touting of,
Alogna, John, 4, 63– 64
80, 98, 107, 141, 161; traded from
Andersson, Niklas, 87, 97, 119, 141,
Islanders, 190
156, 194
Bettman, Gary, 46, 150, 169, 172
Arbour, Al, 21, 35, 123, 137, 144; and
Big Duck, 13, 108
fisherman brand identity, 45, 57–
Big Shot, xx
58, 151; and tenure as Islanders
Billy Joel, 13– 16, 58, 60, 62, 208
coach, 4, 53, 152– 53
Bison Group, 169
Armstrong, Derek, 150
Blade, 22, 28, 127, 159, 161, 165; on
Barclays Center, 191
logo debate, 51– 52, 131; on Spano,
baymen: Billy Joel championing
173– 74
of, 14– 16; and haul- seining ban,
Blanco, Andrew, 42, 203– 4, 207
59– 60; Islanders’ embrace of, 16,
Bossy, Mike, 4, 10, 56, 179
58– 62, 138– 39, 203, 208
Boston Bruins, 32, 97– 101, 106– 7;
Beach, Tim, 5, 162, 178– 79; and
Milbury as coach and GM for, 72–
Islanders’ rebrand, 6, 15, 17, 43,
73, 74, 80, 81, 97, 123, 144, 155, 163
177, 195; on Spano, 174
Botta, Chris, 50– 51, 56– 59, 147
Beers, Bob, 40
Bourque, Ray, 72, 98
/>
Belanger, Ken, 127– 28
Bowness, Rick, fig. 14, 165; and Mil-
Berard, Bryan, fig. 15, 147, 151,
bury, 124– 25, 145, 163, 181
191; and Milbury, 154, 160– 61;
branding: and apparel sales, 2, 48,
obtained by Islanders, 127, 142,
51, 65, 139, 218; as big business in
145; as rookie of the year, 166;
sports, xix– xx, 1– 2, 63; Islanders’
traded from Islanders, xiii, 190
original, xviii, 3– 4, 45, 129, 207–
Berman, Len, 69
8; and logos, 16– 17; and public
Bertuzzi, Todd, fig. 12, 30, 87, 98,
perception, xviii– xix; and third
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branding ( cont. )
Cincinnati Reds, 9
jerseys, 150, 187, 189, 215. See
Clark, Gordie, 144
also fisherman logo and jersey;
Clark, Wendel, fig. 5, 98, 101, 103,
rebrand, Islanders
116; and Milbury, 115, 132– 33; as
Brashear, Donald, 93
scapegoat, 114, 115; traded from
Brodeur, Martin, 9
Islanders, 133, 141, 191; traded to
Brooklyn NY, 11; Islanders’ move to,
Islanders, 94– 96, 123
xviii, 191, 220– 21
Clement, Bill, 69
Brooks, Larry, 131
Cleveland Indians, 188
Brown, Frank, 53
Clutterbuck, Cal, fig. 20
Buffalo Sabres, xii, 36, 94, 125, 136
Coffey, Paul, 151
Burke, Sean, 152
Cole, Danton, 88, 89, 90, 95, 118– 19
Burnett, George, 71
Colorado Avalanche, 94, 122, 180
Burns, Pat, 103
color scheme, 3, 49, 64, 188, 191,
213; of fisherman rebrand,
Cafferty, Jack, 70
47– 48, 70, 135, 199, 202– 3, 214;
Calabria, Pat, 41, 77; fan protests
original, 3, 49
criticized by, 129– 30; on fisher-
Conacher, Pat, 133
man logo, 16, 50– 51, 59, 61, 104,
Connolly, Kevin, 174
120; and Islanders’ rebrand, 6, 9,
Cosmopolitan, 126
11, 12, 44, 60– 61, 62; and mascot,
Croke, Tom, 129, 167– 68, 180, 190
29, 33, 34; post- Islanders career,
Cuomo, Mario, 15
177, 195
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