11/4
Forwards at practice
today: Vanek-Tavares-Okposo; Bouchard-Nielsen-Bailey;
Grabner-Nelson-Clutterbuck; Martin-Boulton-Cizikas-McDonald.
Per Brett Cyrgalis,
"Peter Regin not on the ice at Isles practice (dental work,) C. McDonald
is. Team also places Brian Strait on IR, retroactive to Oct. 24."
"Neither
Visnovsky or Strait has started skating. McDonald and Regin will both be
available for tmrw, as is Nelson at center."
Your 2nd place, 6-5-3 New York
Islanders have a 4-game road trip this week.
Tuesday, 11/5 vs Washington @7pm, Thursday, 11/7 vs Carolina @7pm,
Saturday, 11/9 vs Columbus @7pm and
Sunday, 11/10 vs Montreal at 6pm.
11/2 vs Boston
The Islanders came
out strong and their defensive corps led the way at home to face the
Bruins. The scoring was done in the
second period behind Tavares (Vanek & Okposo,) MacDonald (Hamonic &
Okposo,) & after a Boston goal, it was Thomas Vankek (Okposo &
Hamonic.) It was a 3-1 lead the Isles
would command throughout the game. A
3-1 win at the NVMC. A confident Kevin
Poulin (26/27 & a .963Sv%) silenced some of his critics with a good game in
net against a good, but struggling Boston team and the Isles managed to play a
pretty complete game.
Daniel Friedman,
Capuano on Poulin: "We know what he can do. We've got two solid
goaltenders and we're gonna need 'em."
Per the N.Y.
Islanders, "@T_Vanek26 scored his 500th career point and @BookerT2116
scored his 200th career
point."
Per Brian Compton,
"One month into the season, Frans Nielsen and Kyle Okposo are two of the
top 10 scorers in the NHL."
11/1 vs Ottawa
It was a back and
forth contest in Ottawa for the Isles.
Evgeni Nabokov was having a tough game and the team struggled to find
their pace early on in the game. After
going down 2-0, they got back into it with a Tavares (Vanek & Okposo) goal
and a Martin (Carkner & Nelson,) tieing the game at 2-2 in the second, only
:28 seconds apart per Eric Hornick.
Ottawa scored two more with five minutes to take a commanding two goal
lead once again at 4-2. But if the
Islanders are anything, they are a tough young team that can dig deep if the
inspiration takes them. They did just
that by getting a Bouchard (Donovan & Okposo) goal in the final minutes of
the second to climb within one goal of Ottawa at 4-3. Nielsen (Hickey
& Bouchard) would tie the game once again at 4-4 early in the third period. Trading chances, the game would remain that
way until an Overtime period would turn into a shootout. Frans Nielsen would score the lone goal for
the Isles to win the shootout 5-4 and bring a big 2 points to New York in a
character win by the club. Isles outshot
Ottawa 57-31 in the contest. 57 are the
most ever in a road game for N.Y. Nabokov made 27 saves bringing him to 5-3-3 on the season.
Since Nabokov's
demanded that they score at least 3 goals and they would start winning, the
Isles are 5-1-2 when the score 3 goals and 0-4-1 when they do not. (Eric
Hornick).
Isles Notes:
Per Kukla's Korner,
"Islanders And NHLPA Fight Over Cable TV Money."
Per Brett Cyrgalis,
"Rick DiPietro has given up 9 goals in 2 games with the Charlotte
Checkers. He's "taking his time with comeback"...
HIFK of the SM-Liiga cancelled their contract with former Islander, Trevor Gillies today.
Sound Tigers Notes:
The New York
Islanders Organization signed Jon Sim to a 25 game PTO with the Bridgeport
Sound Tigers today, It will be Sims third turn with the BST. In 2010-11, Sim left the Isles organization
and went to play in Switzerland.
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