John Panarese is a blind Islander and hockey fan who has followed the game for over 30 years.  From the days of having been slipped dollar bills to change the television station to channel 11 by his uncle to turn on the Islander game, he has been a bleed blue and orange Isles fan suffering through all the rebuilding and stretches and rejoicing with every success of the team.  Besides having followed the team via the radio broadcasts through the “glory years” with Barry Landers and Jean Potvin calling the games, he was part owner of season tickets over a dozen year span and has been a member of the New York Islanders Booster Club for four years. John, who lives in Hauppauge in Suffolk County, has lived on the island his entire life.  He runs a home business reselling adaptive hardware and software for blind and low vision computer users, as well as being an authorized Apple Affiliate business.

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