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From: lake@alberta.UUCP (Robert Lake)
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Subject: Re: The End of a Dynasty
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 11:27:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 11:27:39 1985
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> The Islander dynasty is dead having been eliminated by the Philadelphia
> Flyers 1-0 in the fifth game.

The Oilers laid the Islanders in the coffin in the 1984 Stanley Cup
finals - this year the Flyers nailed the coffin shut.  Rest in Peace.

>     ... (this isn't sour grapes, honest) but the game was won on a goal
> that should never have been allowed - really too bad.

Both this goal and the 2nd OT goal against Washington were perfectly leg-
itimate goals - in both cases the interference on the Islander goaltender
was caused by an Islander player.  I wonder what you would be saying if
Islanders had scored instead.

> The players who definitely WON'T be gone:
> 	Mike Bossy
> 	Bryan Trottier
> 	Denis Potvin
> The first three ARE the Islanders, there is no way they will be gone before
> they retire. 

Sure they won't be gone before they retire.  However, especially in the
case of Trottier, some of them may soon be pressured by management to
"retire".
					Robert Lake (alberta!lake)
					University of Alberta