Isles’ Pranksters Welcome Back Blake
March 20th, 2008 by murph
David from HockeyFights.com sent me a pointer to this story from Tuesday’s NYI/TOR tilt.
The Islanders decided to poke some fun at Leafs winger Jason Blake, who scored 40 goals with their team last season before joining Toronto as a free agent. Through 74 games this season, Blake has just 13 goals.
The Islanders erected a mock plaque alongside their wall of fame, which has images of nine greats from the franchise’s history (Bill Torrey, Al Arbour, Denis Potvin, Mike Bossy, Billy Smith, Bob Nystrom, Bob Bourne, Bryan Trottier and Clark Gillies).
Alongside those plaques, the Islanders taped a picture of Blake with the caption “40 goal scorer.”
“It wasn’t framed,” Blake said, laughing.
Anyone in the Blog Box get a picture of this?
Michael Schuerlein Says
I was going to take a picture, but there were too many players around in the runway so I didn’t want to make anyone uneasy.
It was hysterical though, Tom and I had a laugh over it for a good 10 minutes or so.
Mar 20th, 2008 at 4:30 pm