Today, the Isles team
practice should have been an urgent way for them to correct their unstable
defensive struggles. Looks like they
were tweaking their offensive formations, which were lost, then found over the last two games.
Forwards: Grabner-Tavares-Okposo;
Bailey-Nielsen-Bouchard-Nelson; Moulson-Regin-Clutterbuck;
Martin-Cizikas-McDonald-Boulton.
Have to agree with
Daniel Friedman when he commented, "why break up the
Bailey-Nielsen-Grabner line that had played so well? Mind-boggling. Absolutely
mind-boggling." Coach Capuano is
fond of switching up lines when cold streaks happen. I am not sure it is a sound thing to do with
Bailey-Nielsen-Grabner though. They
have a combined 18 points. Lets hope
its just an exercise for practice.
Per Arthur Staple,
"Radek Martinek on the ice with Isles today at practice. Still unsigned,
except for the waiver he inked to be out here today." I wonder if he is there to even out a
practice line or there is something in the works.
Your 2-2-1 New York
Islanders will face Buffalo on Tuesday, Edmonton on Thursday and Carolina on
Saturday, all are home games & will start @ 7pm. They need to turn things around and home would be a good place to
do that. Take that opportunity this
week and work at some real consistency.
Oct 12, vs Predators
Forwards: Moulson-Tavares-Okposo,
Bailey-Nielsen-Grabner, Nelson-Regin-Clutterbuck, Martin-Cizikas-McDonald.
D-Pairings: Hamonic-MacDonald, Visnovsky-Hickey,
Carkner-Strait.
Evgeni Nabokov gets
the start in net, with Kevin Poulin backing up.
Despite a sloppy
effort, the Islanders once again get themselves back into the game, tied at two
at the end of the second after goals from Frans Neilsen and John Tavares. They continued to have issues and fell to
Nashville by the score of 3-2. The
Isles offense was simple derailed and the team looked lost out there. That's 35 shots on goal for the Isles in a pair
of ugly loses over the weekend.
Oct 11, vs Blackhawks
Forwards: Moulson-Tavares-Okposo,
Nielsen-Bailey-Grabner, Bouchard-Regin-Clutterbuck, Martin-Cizikas-McDonald.
D-Pairings: Strait-Donovan, MacDonald-Hamonic,
Hickey-Visnovsky.
Kevin Poulin gets
first start in goal, with Evgeni Nabokov backing up.
The Isles fell
behind, but managed to fight their way back into the game off goals from Kyle
Okposo and Josh Bailey just :49 seconds apart in the first period to tie the
game at 2-2. Kevin Poulin settled down
and made 25 saves after falling behind early in his first start of the season,
that turned out to be a 3-2 loss. John
Tavares said, "We got a couple of big goals there to get
us back in the game and we weren't able to sustain that into the second
period," Tavares said. "We've got to keep on generating
opportunities." I thought Peter
Regin continued to do good things while the recently clutch Matt Donovan
struggled with Brian Strait on defense.
The Islanders
activated forward Cal Clutterbuck from injured reserve to play in the game.
Oct 8, vs Coyotes
Forwards: Moulson-Tavares-Okposo; Bailey-Nielsen-Grabner; Nelson-Regin-Bouchard; Martin-Cizikas-McDonald.
D-Pairings: MacDonald-Hamonic; Visnovsky-Hickey;
Strait-Donovan.
Evgeni Nabokov got
the start and Kevin Poulin was backing up.
Your New York
Islanders faced the Phoenix Coyotes in what would be their most complete effort
of the young season in a 6-1 win. Peter
Regin, John Tavares (2), Matt Donovan (first career NHL goal), Colin McDonald
and Josh Bailey all scored for the Isles.
The most impressive part of the sustained and balanced offensive attack
was watching the perfect passing and aggressive style of play New York brought
to the game. They were dialed in played
a consistent game while frustrating and dominating their opponent. Evgeni Nabokov was good with 33 saves and a
.971 Sv%.
It was another strong
effort by John Tavares, Peter Regin, Matt Donovan and Evgeni Nabokov.
Per Arthur Staple,
" Isles 2-0-1 start best since 3-0-0 opening to 2001-02 season."
Per Chris
Triantafilis, "Michael Grabner had 5 assists in 2013. He has 4 assists
through three games in 2013-14."
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When I thanked some
of those writers who have been a big help to me, I was sure I left off
a few of them. One I know I forgot is
Kevin Schultz from IPB. Kevin has
linked my blog and mentioned it several times in his articles.
With the kind of traffic IPB gets, that makes a difference to KoC.
Thanks Kevin!
Isles Notes:
The Islanders
returned D Griffin Reinhart to Edmonton of WHL.
Isles F, Frans
Nielsen was been fined $5,000 for a slash on Coyotes Martin Hanzal.
The first meeting of
the season for the Islanders Booster Club will be Wednesday, October 23rd at 7
PM at the Marriott Amphitheater. The
guest will be Islanders F, Matt Martin.
Former Isles Martin
Biron & Arron Asham were placed on waivers today by New York Rangers.
Per
@Mc79hockey,"Sportsnet just listed Rick DiPietro as an option for the
Oilers."
Sound Tigers Notes:
On October 9th, the
Islanders sent Kabanov to the Stockton Thunder of the ECHL after he was late to
a team practice.
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