He also won a New York Emmy for Outstanding Sports Analyst while serving as the New York Islanders color man, a post he recently left after four seasons.
With the Islanders in town tonight to take on the Kings, he was gracious enough to help us with a game preview...
MM: The Islanders came out of the gate playing well, picking up points in six of their first seven games. Now, they enter tonight riding a nine game losing streak. What happened?
BJ: Right now they're trying to continue to find an identity. Early on in the season they had - well, minus Mark Streit and Kyle Okposo their two big guys - everybody was healthy and everybody was excited. They were more familiar with (coach) Scott Gordon's system too. Then, they lost another guy to injury in Andrew MacDonald - who was playing OK, but he's an important piece to the puzzle because he plays 20+ minutes a night. He's a real solid, stay at home defenseman who is out of the line-up for a few more weeks. Next thing you know they got some questionable goaltending and all of the sudden they lost that momentum. They've had a hard time getting out of it. They're a team that quite honestly is still in transition. I know fans on the island are getting frustrated hearing that, it's getting old. But, they haven't developed enough of a stable of top tier players like the Kings have done.
