No, it’s not. This is him.

I’m a Leafs fan living near NYC. Every time I’ve been to Nassau Coliseum the Islanders fans sitting next to me have been knowledgeable and friendly.

LOL…I wait with baited breath, Earl!

thanks for that…

I am waiting for him to pull an Eklund and say that someone stole his IP address.

The Acid Queen knows all about that kind of behaviour.

Reading that, it comes across like he’s trying to copy the ‘in-your-face’ of a certain offensive hockey blog by being harsh. Too bad he’s so full of hate, whereas the other harsh / rude blog’s have a love of hockey. Kind of sad more than anything else. I didn’t read one good thing about hockey. Just a person who was upset. So yeah, not kind of sad. Just sad.

Does Eklund have any views that aren’t dim?

I am actually stunned. Normally Eklund prefers people to pretend that nothing happened while deleting any reference to the event and banning anyone that posts about it on his fake site.

I talked to B.D. about it. He apologized.

It’s over with as far as I’m concerned.

If in hindsight something doesn’t make sense then in it’s initiation we can assume a lack of foresight.

Maybe someone should e-mail those Google cache images to his targets so they know the shit he was writing about them.

I don’t know, this is about as lame as it gets

But it seems there are two things at play:

First you’ve got an ‘official team blogger’, under cover of darkness, taking potshots at teams, players, personalities. Many people call Don Cherry an idiot. Few call him a fat idiot. I’ve never seen a ‘professional’ show a picture of some fat slob while talking about Cherry, the reference being the fat slob is Don Cherry. Now, Don Cherry begs for criticism at times. But Bob MacKenzie? Seriously? It’s beyond rude. It’s disrespectful. So here is someone who is ‘proudly’ representing the islanders getting pot shots off to people around the league. It lacks courage using a psuedonym when you already have a blog.

Second, it’s not that it’s rude, offensive, without tact. It’s that it’s just pure piss and vitriol. There’s some anger out there on the internet, sure, and maybe his article about the Bruins has some truth to it, but to write it in such a way that it’s just one big back handed compliment to Bruins fans, leaving it as ‘read it and weep fuckfaces’…? This guys stuff just comes across as bitter packaged in smarts. There are rude, silly, funny blogs out there. This is not one of them. This one reminds me a family friend I bring out with my friends. He’s very smart, but has zero social skills. My friends don’t like him because he’s not nice to anybody.

I realize you’re aiming high here, so dumping The Masked Avenger is within reason, but…

Perhaps it’s just a matter of expectation: There is bawdy humor and language at other sites, where the tone is established by context, but that is obviously not the tone here. People can share their ideas, even repost their own blog content (under whatever pseudonym they register with) — but not abuse this forum (and its high traffic) with stuff that crosses that line. James is simply stating that: “Don’t do this.” Example made. Message sent. Apology received.

Beyond that, starting a blog on Jan. 10 under a pseudonym, immediately reposting its “blue” content here several days in a row and continuing to do so after being warned — that raises questions of intent, particularly when your real name/byline is already known in existing blogging circles. Add to it using that same pseudonym to praise yourself at Chris Botta’s popular Islanders site (comments since deleted, of course), and one wonders, wait, what’s going on? What’s the intent? This is the alter ego where I get to do what I wouldn’t do under my own name? The expectation: no, not here. They’ve got dating sites for that.

Finally, you have his Islanders Blog Box colleagues who shared their concerns above about how such stunts could affect their rep/access. With the mixed reception and definition bloggers have received, I don’t think that’s a surprising concern.

I can’t speak for everyone, but that is why I suspect people are bent. If it doesn’t matter at all — it’s just the Internet, after all — then the owner of this site calling him out on it shouldn’t be a big deal either, because hey, it’s just the Internet. He’s a big boy, he can take the rebuke, and carry on. No autopsy, no foul.