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Islanders News: Remembering Charles B. Wang

The weekend is, sadly, over. And Islanders hockey doesn’t return for two more days! How are we expected to exist as a society like this?!

Anyway, good morning, everyone. Hope you’re all doing well.

  • The longtime owner of the Islanders passed away Sunday after a battle with lung cancer. His death reaches many different levels of the Islanders organization and Long Island in general, as well as other parts of the world. While he wasn’t always the best owner, often tying shut the purse strings that might have made this team more competitive and making some questionable personnel decisions, he undoubtedly saved this team from moving to Kansas City, or Quebec City, or elsewhere, as well as from extinction.