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New York Islanders

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Sport: hockey
Home town: New York, USA
Founding year: 1972
Leagues: National Hockey League
Manager: Ted Nolan

The New York Islanders is the second hockey team from the New York Metropolitan Area. While the Rangers are based on Manhattan, the Islanders have their home base out on Long Island.

The Islanders franchise was founded in 1972 and rapidly developed into a very strong team that went on to win four consecutive Stanley Cups in the early 80s.

Like the Rangers, the Islanders play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The team's home arena is called the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and seats 16,234.

Players

- Bill Guerin

New York Islanders

Game stats

Our match database contains 183 number of games played between Oct '05 - Nov '07 by New York Islanders in the National Hockey League.

During that period, they scored a total of 261 goals as a home team. Their average number of goals scored as a home team was 2.84 per game. As the away team, they scored a total of 266 goals, with an average number of goals of 2.92 per game.

The average for all teams combined within the National Hockey League was 2.91 goals scored per game, and an average of 2.91 goals allowed against per game. This means that New York Islanders scored fewer goals than the average team, and also allowed more goals.

The average team in the National Hockey League won 48.57% of its games, compared to New York Islanders's 46.99%.