Islanders Turn Nassau Coliseum Into Thunderdome

When you’re a bad team and half of your NHL roster is hurt, what should you do to pass the time?

A) Knit sweaters in the penalty box

B) Shop skymall from the bench

C) Turn your home arena into an all out Thunderdome in an attempt to start shit/go beserk/well what does it matter if the other half of the team gets suspended.

For the Islanders, it’s apparently option C. Stuck with a roster that’s mostly AHL players and a goaltending situation that’s on Mikko Koiskinen who — wait for it — was the 5th string goalie at the start of the season they turned the Nassau Coliseum into a scene from Bloodsport on Ice. The Penguins, also undermmanned and similarly unaware of this change in venue got jumped literally and figuratively. The Islanders made a point to jump Max Talbot more than a few times as “vengeance” from his hit last week that injured Blake Comeau. Michael Haley even went so far as to go after Brent Johnson, but by that point the Penguins’ Eric Godard had seen enough and came off the bench to his goaltenders’ defense. Yeah, it go so ridiculous that Godard had to say ‘fuck it, I’ll take the suspension’ as an automatic one comes with coming off the bench during a fight. So you, Bloodthirstly Reader You, surely want to see the highlight video of this 200 something penalty minute, multiple ejection shit show. Well, here you go your filthy animal. It’s freaking 10 minutes long. And doesn’t include all the random shenanigans that happened in the last half of the third period. 10 MINUTES OF FIGHT HIGHLIGHTS! JEEZ

Here’s the box score, if you dare. It’s roughly as long as the last Twilight book. How do I know that, you ask? Well… Uh… I….

*backs away slowly*