i think this logo really works as a third jersey logo but not for the main jersey

Interesting topic and a great video, thank you! Some audio issues near the end tho??

It's safe to say it was ahead of time. While I was watching I thought exactly that and now they are back. Whould you look at that!

Hot take, I kinda like the Fish Sticks jerseys 🤷‍♂️

Funny enough, Gretzky did end up finishing his career in New York… for the Rangers in 1999

2:25 lol I bet this agency consists of 3 dudes named Sean Michael and Edward respectively. Super creative, guys, good job!

As someone who has no connection with the islanders, I feel like the name islanders does not do a very good job of making people think of long island specifically. I think if they wanted to let everyone know they were from long island they should have been called the Long Island 'insert name' and drop using New York in the name. You could then come up with a name like Fishermen, Seamen, Light Keepers. I feel like with having New York in the team name it just puts them in the shadow of the Rangers which is not only original 6, but has an iconic name and colors.

Awesome Video

Era when introduced was my main collecting time (have all home/road/alts from 1990 or so through 2000). I rememeber the uproar over these, they were also one of the most expensive at the retail level. Time has been kind to them though, or the rarity...Have a few here, blanks, signed Salo home/road, Pallfy, Lapointe and Soderstrom. Interesting to see how they've shot up in value 20+ yrs later. Perhaps the shoulder lighthouse might've worked better as a main logo?

The Isles should have gone with the lighthouse as the main logo and the fisherman as the shoulder patch. Would have been better received. I own two Fisherman jerseys btw.

Great video! But I have to heavily dissagree. To start it all, the Islanders original logo is good, that I give BUT there jerseys have always been BORING and SIMPLE. When they tried there re-branding in 1995, they really made something that did like equal good and fitted with there name "Islanders". Sailors and fishermen are what pops up in people's mind when thinking about Islander people. But lets put the logo change aside here. The REAL victory was the design of there new jersey look. The new jerseys with the waves and the introduction of there 2nd logo of the "Lighthouse" made them go from one of the leages most boring team jerseys to one of the NHL's best looking jerseys as seen in 4:53. They had those jerseys from 1996-1998 and looked so GREAT! BUT crying out loud they then abandoned there awesome jersey design and goes back to there plain boring vanilla style jerseys we see today still (!) I mean when I was a kid and now I have never paid attention to the Islanders games because I find there jerseys alone not make me interested in watching there team as they lack any identity. But between 1995 till 1998 I did watch them because suddenly they had an identity. And when abandoned I went back to ignore the team and still does because I can't stand there boring jerseys. The logo design final word. I think this logo really works as a third jersey logo, that much it works! And if I play the NHL video games, if there wave jerseys are not there (as they have not been for many years avaible for some reason allong with Sabres black/white/red era) I simulate those season games against the Islanders till I can beat them in late minutes because like I said, they have no identity.

Audio issues near the end and a weird blank between 6:00 and 6:08 but apart from that, solid video mate.

Main jersey material! Obviously.

God I hated those jerseys and logo at the time and I never thought I would ever like them….and now I do. I never want them to wear it on the ice, aside from that reverse retro jersey.

Would have been a decent effort IMHO for a mid/late 90s expansion team. Terrible concept for a franchise that basically had nothing (spoken as an NYI fan) going for it except for history/tradition though.

The previous logo looked atrocious, the only reason to keep it was nostalgia

You forgot the best part about the terrible mascot Nyisles! "At one game, a young boy punched him and kicked him in the groin. An angry Di Fiore changed into street clothes and later found the boy in the stands. He bent down and whispered in the child’s ear, “I know who you are.” The kid never bothered him again."

nassau coliseum is pronounced nass-aw. like the country

Nah-saw… you’re welcome

I rather like the logo, and you might say it's too on the nose with the fishermen stuff, and perhaps akin to a fish sticks brand, but sports logos tend to be very on the nose - so it feels fitting. It's just that a nice logo isn't going to fix a team's poor performance, or reputation, jut like you said. A bad team is a bad team, no matter the visual branding.