12:17 pm: Well, okay then. It's now after 12 pm and the waive wire 5 have cleared. I am imagining that means that Wishart gets on a bus to Bridgeport perhaps joined by Reese. I am not sure about the other three. No official word has leaked out yet.

*Strike that, word from Jack Capuano They're all going to Bport. "We have to win hockey games. Just because those guys were sent down on waivers doesn't necessarily mean that (they can't make the Islanders roster). Those guys are going to play this weekend, they're going to be in the lineup."



Good news from Art Staple: Andrew MacDonald should play tomorrow in New Jersey, however Brian Rolston is unlikely and Jurcina and Rakhshani are bout out of the line-up possibility.

Art also has pieces in newsday from Evgeni Nabokov about how happy he is to be an Islander. Blah Blah. I do believe this is all window dressing because he can't put up a sign saying "Goalie For Hire."

I noticed how Ray Ferraro presented Nabby's "situation" on the Tuesday night broadcast as if it was a sales pitch to other NHL clubs. Well, no one likes to be a third wheel, but you never know.

7 am:The Hub:
It seems the very vocal group at the Association for a Better Long Island that decried the $400 million referendum originally said they could do much better with the property and that it should be privately funded project. Well, after putting together that task force to present private funding proposals, they have come up with SQUANTO as they could not agree on anything. (A Nassau county subcommittee is now in charge of the Nassau Hub development proposals. )

WHAT A SURPRISE. Seems what the ABLI wanted proposed, a privately funded project, is exactly what Ms. Kate Murray squished like a spider on her desk after Charles Wang and associates spent $14 million generating the Lighthouse proposal.


Since the vote and through all of this political bickering, has anyone heard or read a remark from Kate Murray? The woman who stood up on the podium alongside County Executive Ed Mangano and Charles Wang prior to the referendum vote seems to be invisible. When I Tweeted to Mr. Mangano asking where TOH Supervisor Murray was in all this, he was kind enough to Tweet back:

Ed Mangano: @7thWoman  I can't speak to Kate Murray's motives but I can assure you we are still working on the coliseum project

Mangano’s latest idea is asking for state funding to go along with the idea of private funding and was in Albany speaking with the Governor on Tuesday. Andrew Cuomo is expected to make his decisions on funding projects in December. If the Nassau Hub DOES get state funding, then Mr. Mangano will send out yet another RFP.

Tick Tock Nassau. Tick Tock.

Meanwhile it’s confirmed the NJ Devils are in a bit of financial trouble. Doesn’t that wholeheartedly prove that an arena alone does not make a franchise profitable? That’s why the Lighthouse project was proposed the way it was.

It’s a shame that the sport we love so much seems to have a flawed business model. After seeing all the problems with ownership, you have to ask yourself: Who in their right mind would want to own a hockey team?

Speaking of hockey, the only cuts that have been made so far was putting five players on waivers yesterday. Of the five: Wallace, Marcinko, Reese, Wishart and Frischmon, only Wishart is a surprise. Although he should clear and be sent to Bridgeport.

The roster needs to be final before the season starts next week, so more cuts will be made after this weekends games.

And now for something completely different. I was working on NHL stories for a radio show that sadly didn’t get off the ground on Monday night. I felt so strongly about one of the stories of the week that I had to write about it. Since it’s not Islanderscentric, I decided to ask my good friends at HockeyThisWeek if they would indulge me and put it there. They were kind enough to agree.

Here are my thoughts, along with some insight from Doug Weight, on the retirement of Hockey icon, Mike Modano.

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