This is the logo of the National Hockey League’s New York Islanders, who entered the NHL as an expansion franchise in 1972. This logo is the one that the fans of the franchise favor, and that came to light when the team tried to introduce the infamous “Gorton’s Fisherman” logo in the 1990s. That logo was featured in an earlier “Classic Team Logo” post on this blog. After much fan backlash the team scrapped that logo and returned to this classic one, which represented the team in its’ glory years in the early 1980s when they won 4 consecutive Stanley Cup titles. Some of the NHL’s great players played on those teams, including Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier, Denis Potvin, Clark Gillies and goaltender Billy Smith.