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4 weeks ago | 
lighthousehockey.com | Dan Saraceni |Michael Leboff
Along with podcaster and Canucks fan Ryan Schaap, Mike and Dan learn about Pius Suter, who attended a training camp with the Islanders before starting a productive NHL career for three other teams. Suter came over from his native Switzerland to try the NHL on for size and attended camps for both the Senators and Islanders before finally signing a contract with the Red Wings. After two solid years in Detroit and one in Chicago, he settled in Vancouver, where he’s become a valued utility player.
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1 month ago | 
lighthousehockey.com | Dan Saraceni |Michael Leboff
Joined again by friend Tyler Gildin, we remember Tom Chorske, a useful player and ace penalty killer who gave both an undermanned Islanders team and a kids summer camp some important depth. Chorske came from a Cup winning organization in New Jersey and played on some blossoming Senators teams before landing on The Island via waivers. The 1997-98 Islanders had all the makings of a playoff team, except they didn’t.
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1 month ago | 
lighthousehockey.com | Dan Saraceni
Mike and Dan talk about bad calls and blown games as the Islanders erase their recent charge towards the playoffs.
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1 month ago | 
lighthousehockey.com | Dan Saraceni |Michael Leboff
With author Greg Prato, Mike and Dan travel back to the Islanders’ inaugural 1972 season to learn about Arnie Brown, a former Ranger who did not enjoy his short stay on Long Island.
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1 month ago | 
lighthousehockey.com | Dan Saraceni
Mike and Dan discuss the Islanders’ latest point streak and unlikely reappearance in the Eastern Conference playoff race. With a makeshift lineup full of forgotten players and total nobodies, the Islanders have risen from the ashes through hard work and (finally) a little luck. They came from behind to beat the Penguins, toppled the Habs in overtime (not that anyone from Montreal even noticed them) and gave away a point to Calgary while not playing their best.
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1 month ago | 
lighthousehockey.com | Dan Saraceni |Michael Leboff
With author Greg Prato, Mike and Dan travel back to the Islanders’ inaugural 1972 season to learn about Arnie Brown, a former Ranger who did not enjoy his short stay on Long Island. The original Islanders were worse than bad. They were, at the time, the least successful team in NHL history. When he acquired the 31-year-old Brown in October of 1972, Bill Torrey was probably looking for a veteran leader and someone who knew how to play defense.
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1 month ago | 
lighthousehockey.com | Dan Saraceni
Mike and Dan don’t know how to feel about the Islanders taking three points from last year’s Stanley Cup finalists in this very weird season. In playing Edmonton tough before losing in overtime and beating the Cup champion Panthers, the Islanders showed a level of grit and skill they could have used in November instead of in March where they’re still a longshot to make the playoffs.
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2 months ago | 
lighthousehockey.com | Dan Saraceni |Michael Leboff
Mike and Dan put as much effort into recapping the Islanders’ first two post-trade deadline games as the players put into playing them. Instead, they spend more time lamenting just how old, slow, sloppy and depressing the team looked in both, one of which was an actual win. One night after Ilya Sorokin stole two points in San Jose, the Islanders slept through a game against the Ducks that was as sad as it was boring.
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2 months ago | 
lighthousehockey.com | Dan Saraceni |Michael Leboff
Mike and Dan analyze the Islanders’ trade deadline moves and non-moves and how they will impact the team on and off the ice. With the trade of Brock Nelson to Colorado just after midnight on deadline day for a conditional first round pick and prospect Calum Ritchie, the Islanders waved goodbye to their most consistent forward of this era. Removing his presence from the team leaves a big hole that current players, ex-players, media and fans will all feel.
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2 months ago | 
lighthousehockey.com | Dan Saraceni |Michael Leboff
Along with comic book writer and owner of many weird Islanders jerseys Keith Dallas, Mike and Dan remember defenseman Mike Mottau, whose short stint on Long Island was also very eventful. After winning a Hobey Baker Award at Boston College and playing for the Rangers, Flames and Devils, Mottau washed ashore as a free agent, looking to help the young Islanders blueline. What followed were injuries and many losses, many of which Mottau was helpless to stop.