Hey Islander fans, are you busy for the next fifteen minutes? I hope not…because you are now. IslandersArmy.com has fifteen minutes of Stanley Cup celebrating, drinking, and interviews from 1981.
First we start with the end of the game - the last :45 seconds and the beginning of the celebration. On ice interviews with Bryan Trottier, Butch Goring (Conn Smythe Trophy Winner), Denis Potvin, and John Tonelli. Then the action heads inside the locker room where there is a lot of champagne being sprayed and an interview with Mike Bossy. Finally, they present the Conn Smythe trophy to Goring.
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In part two, there are interviews with Anders Kallur, Clark Gillies, Wayne Merrick (game winning goal), and Ken Morrow.
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Another new video from Islanders Army up at YouTube.com this morning. This time it’s the 1981 Stanley Cup Finals. Included is Wayne Merrick’s game winning goal and then some footage from the end of the game. I have the full version of the 1981 Cup Clincher, so you can expect a longer version of the post-game celebration video to be posted some other day.
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Welcome to Islanders Army, a new blog dedicated to covering the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. Islanders Army is starting out as a two man team of die-hard, lifelong, Islanders fans who grew up in the Islanders’ heyday of the early 1980’s. One of us is a computer geek who set all this up and still plays men’s league hockey (me), the other (Tom) is an real journalist with an actual degree and job in journalism. “So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice…”.
I had a desire to start a blog but couldn’t choose a topic and Tom had a desire to write about a topic he really cared about. Blogging about the Islanders was one of the ideas I was tossing around, and with the season coming up quickly we decided to go for it.
We are going to cover Islanders games, news, events, Islander-related materials on the Internet, and general hockey news. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. You can contact us at ISLANDERSARMY@GMAIL.COM. We’ve setup an account on YouTube.com to share videos with you, here are our first two.
1980 Stanley Cup: Games 1-5 recap, Game 6 OT Winner, Stanley Cup Celebration
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1980 Stanley Cup: Local news game highlights, short interviews with Bob Nystrom and Mike Bossy.
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