Stan Fischler is a broadcaster and scribe whose career covering the NHL is deeper and longer than even the Maple Leafs’ Stanley Cup drought. Google him, if you don’t know him, though he retired from regular MSG broadcast duty at the end of this last season.
He was there covering hockey in New York since before the Islanders’ inception, inclusive of the dynasty and all the many Faustian debts we later realized must follow.
His eighth decade of coverage was marked by such things as the entertaining post-game banter he’d have with former Islanders goalie Evgeni Nabokov, and his ability to ask the first question — concisely and insightfully — in many a post-game.