Tenant Charles Wang: Kate Murray, Joe Mondello, Al D’Amato and spending to repair a building he does not own after running around for a decade while Dolan calls Shelly Silver and says ” Where’s my check ” with Bloomberg court side.

Look at what Nashville has given the Predators:http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120429/NEWS01/304290057/Profit-eludes-Nashville-Predators-despite-ice-success-public-money

Go ahead read it and see why the playing field has not been level for Wang since day one.

Edmonton, Phoenix, Quebec, Seattle plus many other NHL teams giving teams money including NYR at 11-15m a year with money Devils receive while Ed Snider got his Lighthouse from the taxpayers and a brand new AHL arena.

Charles Wang? He got Kate Murray, Ed Mangano and Jay Jacobs with his PSL. The previous generation got Judy Jacobs and Tom Gulotta.

If Wang came in and did what Milstein did he would be at fault, he spent from Hamrlik to Reinhart and from the free agents themselves (Ehrhoff, Martin, Smyth) at least Wang offered them some very high contracts but not front-loaded.

Isles current payroll 53m not counting Joensuu.
Cap floor 44m.

You seem to want to say that Wang and Snow are but poor simple guys trying their best and nothing is their fault or we should not ask them to take responsibility for anything Islanders related, especially with regards to the on-ice product. Its just not their fault huh… Are you sure you would not like to also blame Santa, the Easter bunny or the tooth fairy while your at it???….hehehe….

Oh, and your salary numbers are also B.S. No matter what you say or how you try to spin it, it does not change the fact the Islanders are a salary cap floor team, and have been for quite a few years now.

And your true fans don’t fill the seats here. Not from 1989 on not in the early rounds of 92-93 playoffs and not in first half of 2001-02. Florida outdrew this franchise ten years in a row, Atlanta outdrew them every year but two including the year they moved.

What happened in 2006-07 when Snow traded for Smyth in 6th place? 12,500 against the Blues.

Education 101: Chicago won the Stanley Cup and lost money, feel free to read it from the owner himself in the days after http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-07-30/business/ct-biz-0730-confidential-hawks-20100730_1_rocky-wirtz-wirtz-corp-bill-wirtz

The Isles payroll is around 53 million with Bailey, the cap 44m. Joensuu will be activated at some point. Wang’s payroll was 45m before any cap with teams like Nashville under 30m.

It takes time to get better now in a division packed with corporate teams in taxpayer funded buildings with fans willing to pay hundreds for tickets vs fans who will not spent $25.00 for tickets in a buidling where they cannot make a profit.

Firstly, the role of any GM is to provide players to a coaching staff that have a chance to win a championship….period. Failure to do so over an extented period of time should and does result in the GM getting fired, failure to make the playoffs always result in changing the culture and direction of a team….Columbus and Toronto are but recent examples… Chicago struggled due to poor ownership decisions, when the onwer died, the team made appropriate changes in the way they were structured and improved and won a cup.

Secondly, Yes I want Ownership to pay whatever they need to pay to get a winning product on the ice…. WHY you ask….well cause it ain`t my money….plain and simple. So what if the ticket prices get raised, A true fan will pay extra to see a winning product that has the depth to compete on a nightly basis and WIN. It is not for me as a fan to figure out how, that is why teams (that are succesful) have presidents, marketing experts, GMs…to figure that stuff out. Not us as fans.

Thirdly, you talk alot about the past… knowing the past should help you avoid the same errors n the future, but you seem to love to dwell in it, and cover yourself in it, to justify mediocrity, which hey, its a free country, so go ahead and fill your boots…. BUT I strive for the future and want the NOW to be succesful.

Fourthly, The Islanders are not 12 M over the cap floor this season, nor last, nor the one before that, etc… Spew whatever number ou wish, informed fans know betteré

Everyone has a right to their opinions, even those such as yours, BUT that does not mean you speak with an informed and educated voice.

Again, I love my Islanders, but that does not mean I accept their path of mediocrity… I deserve better Now, today and tomorrow, regardless of the past.

What was Mario doing with the same Smg? Selling Kovalev to the Rangers in an eight player deal where Cablevision paid all eight players for the rest of the season. Wang spent on trades for Hamrlik, Aucoin, Niinimaa to go with keeping Jonsson.

I don’t talk smack. Hunter, Witt were excellent contracts the fans demanded and beyond the owner when both got hurt. Nielsen both contracts were excellent, same as MacDonald and Streit was a flat out steal. Wang did not front-load Smyth, Gomez, Drury, along with the countless long-term busts contracts handed out to Wisniewski or Ehrhoff, Paul Martin in some brutal UFA markets.

Funny all I read is Isles are cap circumventing despite being 12m above the floor who got nothing but abuse for not trading vets like Satan at the deadline.

And please stop telling us about six years, Florida, St Louis, Cablevision, Chicago, Atlanta, Toronto, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Edmonton have had periods of losing for as long or longer. You really going to tell me George McFly in Washington who signed Jagr and dumped him is a better gm than Snow or Ed Snider’s latest puppet who signed Bruno Gervais and a generation of goalies who cannot stop a beach ball are and better beyond dumping their front-loaded Comcast mistakes on other teams?

Wang tries, but again, there is a saying that I believe came from Einstein…. INSANITY is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results. You talk good smack but you also need to stick your head up. We can either say….for the next X number of years thank you Charles and bow down to him for persevering or we can stand up and say, it is just not enough, we are sick and tired of being bottom feeders and we want a winner. Six years of no playoffs would cost any and every GM their jobs, except on Long Island….

As fans, we deserve better, you can continue to justify status quo….or you can demand better….I choose to demand better.