This was a game I was hoping to make tonight because there is a lot of
history between these two teams. Back in the early 1980′s it was either
the Islanders or the Oilers in the Stanley Cup Championships, one
dynasty against a future dynasty. Both
franchises
would leave their marks in NHL history. For the Islanders you had
Bossy, Trottier, Gillies, Potvin & Smith and for the Oilers it was
Gretzky, Messier Kurri, Coffey & Fuhr. Now 30 years later, the NHL
and it’s fans will be witnessing a possible rebirth of this once great
rivalry. The Islanders have Tavares, Grabner, Okposo and Hamonic while
the Oilers counter with Hall, Neugent-Hopkins, Eberle & Schultz.
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