The ecosystem of a quality, highly competitive fantasy league can be quite fragile. All it takes is one owner, one team to upset the balance. This can happen when the owner either neglects his or her roster or arrives at the draft unprepared or trades all of his or her best players to a friend for 20 cents on the dollar.
All it takes is one owner who doesn't know what he or she is doing to ruin the league for everyone else.
When that ineptitude takes place over a long enough timeline, the league's commissioner will let that owner know during the offseason that he or she is not welcome back the following season. It's an awkward situation for sure, a mix of being fired and broken up with, but it's always for the betterment of the league.
That's how you wind up with Billy Joel's Bloop Singles ruining the league.
In the National Hockey League, that team is the New York Islanders. That owner is Charles Wang. That manager is Garth Snow.
On July 18, 2006, Snow retired from Billy Joel's Blo…I mean, the Islanders and was named general manager of the team. It's the type of panic move every ...
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