NHL DRAFT RECAP SPECIAL ON HNLI

Hey everyone. Be sure to tune in to Hockey Night on Long Island on Sunday night in primetime for the Islanders NHL Draft Recap special. Steve and I will recap the events of Friday and Saturday in Columbus. We will be joined by Special Guest Tom Mascioli of islesinfo.com, who will share his thoughts on the NYI Draft Class of 2007. Of course we will take your calls and IMs and look ahead to the looming free agency period.

Be sure to tune in Sunday at 7:30 PM EST at show.hockeynightonlongisland.com.

Ducks are the champs... for 16 reasons!

as reported by KSN Reporter Ethan Kwassman
NHL.Com Senior writer Shawn P. Roarke always has a very grasping column in Crashing the Net, and this week he tells us 16 reasons why the Anaheim Ducks won the Stanley Cup. Some reasons are very obvious like those of the leadership of Scott Niedermeyer, and surprise performance of Travis Moen throughout the entire playoffs. Others, such as the Ducks advantages of home-ice advantage, their depth and domination on faceoffs were givens. I didn't really agree with his reasoning of mental toughness, confidence, and luck as helping the Ducks winning the Cup. After all, you can argue that the Pittsburgh Penguins just had as many or as lack of those three attributes as the Anaheim Ducks did.

However, it's a very lengthy, informative, and well-written article. And I think this might be the reason why he was unable to join Alex Silverman and Andy Facini on Hockey Night on Long Island, this past Saturday, cause this article to a heck of work. Hopefully, this extremely insightful, meticulous, and knowledgeable reporter for the National Hockey League's official site will be able to bring his game to HNLI sometime soon in the future.

link to article (click here)

Transcript with Cassie Ellis of Anaheim Duck's Fan

as reported by Ethan Kwassman KSN Radio Host

I posted a transcript of this earlier, but somehow it didn't get posted and wasn't saved, and now I realize that posting whole interview audio, is more efficient, and easier than posting transcripts, lol.

Cassie Ellis from http://www.anaheimduckfan.blogspot.com joined Aceman & the Kwass on Sunday, June 10, 2007 to talk about the Ducks celebrations, her website, female fans in the NHL, the future of the Anaheim Ducks, the NHL offseason, the Ducks farm system, the aggressiveness of Chris Pronger, the issue of Teamu Selane possibly retire, and Scott Niedermeyer as a Devil, and in his first year as a Duck. It was a very grasping interview, to stay the least.

Click to hear the whole interview here.
The audio may take a few seconds to upload, so please be patient...

Hockey Night on Long Island: The Newest KSN Contributor

Hello all. My name is Alex and with my good buddy Steve, I host Hockey Night on Long Island, the only Internet Talk Show dedicated to the New York Islanders. Every week, the two of us bring listeners banter on the latest events in the world of hockey and the Islanders. Since starting our show, we have featured several notable guests including Matt Ebbs of International Scouting Services, Greg Logan of Newsday, and many more!

It is now my pleasure to announce that I will be contributing to the KSN blog on a fairly regular basis. I plan on bringing KSN's readers a little bit of hockey news and opinion that currently seems to be missing here. I'd like to thank Kwass for letting me put my two cents into this great website.

To begin my little "partnership" with KSN, I will be making a guest appearance tomorrow night on KSN's The Sports Docket. I'll be dishing out some information and opinion on the latest in the NHL offseason, including the draft, free agency, and much more. Be sure to listen to The Sports Docket at 6PM EST tomorrow an to give us a call.

Finally, I'd like to invite you all to check out my website and show. The show's new blogger website can be accessed at hockeynightonlongisland.blogspot.com. To check out our host channel directly to listen to the show and check our schedule, check out www.blogtalkradio.com/hockeynightonlongisland.

Be sure to tune in to the next episode of Hockey Night on Long Island this Saturday at 3PM EST. We are thrilled to be joined by Shawn P. Roarke, a Senior Writer for NHL.com. We will talk to Shawn about the recently concluded NHL Season, the offseason, draft, free agency, and a while lot more. Be sure to tune in!

Mighty Ducks claim Cup with Game 5 win!

as reported by KSN Reporter Ethan Kwassman

The Anaheim Mighty Ducks had a Hollywood ending to the 2006-07 NHL Season by winning the Stanley Cup with a 6-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators last night at the Honda Center in Hollywood. For the third straight cup (not year, because of the lockout in '04), a team from a warm climate defeats a Canadian team. Last year, it was Carolina over Edmonton in 7 games, and the one before that, it was Tampa Bay over Calgary in 6 games. And the Cup before that, it was the my very-own New Jersey Devils over a very different Anaheim hockey club in 7 games. Thus, the Ducks have made 2 out of the last 4 Cups, but this was their first, as the took care of business in 5 games over the Senators, who were making their first appearance. (Well that did have on in 1927!).

Second Ever KSN Radio Doubleheader on Friday, the first of June!

(click screenshot above to see one of our shows, "System Showdown" on the front page of BlogTalkRadio.com)

as reported by KSN Radio Host Ethan Kwassman

Well, I finished study for my Chemistry test tomorrow quite a while ago, and I got several exciting things to tell you KSN Bloggers. First off, I think I'm going to ace that test tomorrow.

Next, tune in LIVE! to the first of two shows for KSN Radio with "The Sports Docket with Aceman & the Kwass" @ 4:00 P.M. EST. We plan to have Lou DeFillippo, Mets sportswriter for HotFootBlog.com as well Joe McDonald, Mets and Rangers reporter and also creator of the awesome website, New York Sports Day , join us on the show as we will interview them about their innovative websites as well as Mets Talk. We also hope to finally have Matt Watson, the lead writer for a Detroit Pistons Blog, DetroitBadBoys.com to talk some Pistons-Cleveland Cavaliers Eastern Conference Finals basketball with us. You can tune in LIVE! here. Make sure you have Windows Media Player or a comparable audio player.
Our nightcap of the doubleheader is going to extra special as well. Not only is our show for Friday @ 5:30 p.m. EST featured on the front page of BlogTalkRadio.com, but we are extremely honored to have a very special guest on "System Showdown" with Kwass, the PC guy; Jon, The iMacGuy, and Zixan, the Linux user. We will also be joined by special guest Arnold Kim, the creator of the extremely popular MacRumors.com. We will discuss the latest Mac news and rumors, as well as the history of MacRumors.com, as well as the features and technology behind this extremely innovative website.
Check out these latest Sports News Stories from Blogs and Websites in the New York/tri-state area: (really great stuff; some are from yesterday, most from today.)

• Zito Sharp, Drops Mets, 3-0 by Michael Avalone, of New York SportsDay.Com
• Post Game: Mets 4 Giants 2 by Dan Lerner, of Hotfootblog.Com
• Marlins Continue to Make Bad Trades by Dan Lerner, of Hotfootblog.Com

Check out Aceman & the Kwass Show!

Check it out! Dan Lewis of ArmchairGM.com join Ethan Kwassman LIVE!