Your 2009-10 New York Islanders Drinking Game, Version 1.0

When we first started this blog, one of our first posts was an Islanders drinking game. At the time we posted the game, the Islanders were a below-average team, but they were a far cry from the 30th overall team we saw last year. When your team is really bad, sometimes it can get tough watching the team play. That’s where we come in. The 2009-10 New York Islanders should be a significant improvement over last year’s team, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll get better results. With this in mind, here’s something to keep you interested. If nothing else, we hope it’ll keep you laughing (and drinking), something much easier said than done with this team. We’ll update this as it becomes necessary. And away we go! ANNOUNCERS Drink every time… - Billy Jaffe stares into the camera with a creepy half-smile while Howie is talking - Howie Rose or Billy Jaffe reference their listeners on the radio. Chug if they use the phrase “Out In Radio Land”. - A sponsored segment is introduced. Chug if it’s a Panasonic Digital Replay. - Howie or Billy makes a bad pun - Howie states that coincidental minors “will not affect on-ice manpower” - Howie dismisses a late-game penalty as “just bookkeeping” - Billy says something that could be construed as homer-ish. Chug if Billy precedes it with something like “Not to sound like a homer, but…” - Stan Fischler appears on the intermission report. Chug if he’s the best-dressed member of the crew. Take an additional drink every time he says something that would best be described as “crotchety”. Kill a beer if he goes out of his way to bash Sidney Crosby. - Howie praises the Islanders’ third uniforms - Howie complains about the difficulty of the night’s trivia question - Howie or Billy mention crew members (i.e. statistician Eric Hornick, Continue reading Your 2009-10 New York Islanders Drinking Game, Version 1.0