| New York Islanders Awesomeseating.com is your go-to broker for NHL tickets. Whether you’re looking for cheap seats behind the goalie, a luxury sky-box or something closer to the ice, we’re your Awesome ticket broker for New York Islanders Ticket for the regular season and New York Islanders Playoff Ticket. The New York Islanders entered the NHL in 1972, one half of a two-team expansion that included a franchise going to Atlanta. The team only won 12 of 82 games in its first season. In the 73 NHL Draft the club went first and picked Denis Potvin, from the Ottawa 67s. Potvin would form the heart of a team that included other young stars like forward Bob Nystrom and temperamental goaltender Billy Smith. As importantly, former St. Louis Blues head coach Al Arbour was brought to Long Island. Though the team still finished last in its division in its second NHL season, the 1973-74 New York Islanders increased their end-of-season point total from 30 to 56, with 7 more wins and a remarkable 18 ties. The team would not play sub-.500 hockey again until 1989. In 1980-83 the Islanders won four consecutive Stanley Cup Finals. In their final win they swept the upstart Edmonton Oilers, a team from the Canadian praries led by a young scoring machine named Gretsky. The following year the Oilers returned the favor, replacing the Islander Dynasty in 5 with a new dynasty that would win a total of five Stanley Cups over the next seven years. The Islander glory days are but a distant memory. The team has not won a playoff series since they beat the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round of the 1993 NHL Playoffs. On a brighter note, the Islanders have made it into the playoffs four of the past five years, losing in the Quarterfinals to the Toronto Maple Leafs (2002), Ottawa Senators (2003), Tampa Bay Lightning (2004) and last season to the Buffalo Sabres. In the 2008 NHL Draft the Islanders selected center Josh Bailey with their first pick, ninth overall. The team fired head coach Ted Nolan later in the summer and replaced him with Scott Gordon, former head coach of the American Hockey League Providence Bruins, the Boston Bruins farm team. Gordon has no previous NHL head coaching experience. The New York Islanders are in the Atlantic Division of the 3-division Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League. Awesomeseating.com offers cheap tickets and luxury tickets for all NHL teams. We have NBA Playoff Tickets as soon as the playoff situation finalizes. Buy your cheap tickets to New York Islanders hockey from your trusted ticket broker right now. |