Itt would be hard to find an Islanders fan today who doesn’t trace some part of their fandom to Stan Fischler. As a New York-based reporter and broadcaster, he’s been associated with the franchise for its entire existence.
Plenty of writers who write about the team today were inspired by or even interned with him, including a couple of our own Lighthouse scribes. That wasn’t the case for me, but my Islanders fandom was cemented by a Fischler book my dad gave me when he was preaching the Church of Arbour: “The Triumphant Islanders: Hockey’s New Dynasty,” was published in 1976.