Your New York Islanders will face the Pittsburgh
Penguins in Pittsburgh tonight. They
will try to make it two straight against the Pens with Thomas Vanek in the line
up.
Forwards: Vanek-Tavares-Okposo; Grabner-Nielsen-Bailey; Bouchard-Regin-Clutterbuck; Martin-Cizikas-McDonald.
D-Pairings: MacDonald-Hamonic; Hickey-Martinek;
Donovan-Carkner.
Kevin Poulin starting
in goal, Anders Nilsson on the bench.
After going down 2-0,
the Isles Thomas Vanek (Okposo & Martinek) scored in his first game back
off injury to bring the Isles within one, 2-1.
Pittsburgh would score a third goal to make it a 3-1 lead, but the Isles
would fight behind the strong play of Kevin Poulin making some key saves to
challenge the Pens once more. Colin
McDonald (Cizikas) and Thomas Vanek's (Okposo & Tavares) second of the game
to tie the score at 3-3. For much of
the game, the Isles were strong 5 on 5, but were severely let down once again
by their special teams which is so bad, that it could now be blamed for losing
games. Sidney Crosby Makes the Isles
pay with just 1:16 remaining in the game when he is left unattended in front of
the net to give Pittsburgh a 4-3 win and hands the Isles their 6th straight
road loss. Isles outshot Pens 35-34 for
the game.
Kevin Poulin was 30/34
with a .882Sv%, but was left alone on several occasions and played pretty well,
but not good enough. The Martin-Cizikas-McDonald
line was as awesome tonight as they have been in recent games, making things
happen and opening up the game for New York.
Matt Donovan continues to show me good things out there. The Isles played to the level of their
opponent again tonight, but mental mistakes cost the Isles a huge two points
tonight and holds them in last place at 8-12-3 with 19 pts. until their game
against the Flyers tomorrow night.
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