Tonight, Your New York Islanders will give a
rematch to the Stars in Dallas, just 6 days after their come from behind, 7-3
win on Monday. The Isles will try and
build on their 7-3-0 surge in their last games while Dallas will try to exact
some payback. Can the Isles make it 7
straight on the road? Isles radio
voice, Chris King will have the play by play again tonight with Butch Goring.
Forwards:
Vanek-Tavares-Okposo,
Nelson-Nielsen-Bailey, Grabner-Strome-Clutterbuck, Martin-Cizikas-McDonald.
D-Pairings:
MacDonald-Strait, de
Haan-Hamonic, Donovan-Hickey.
Kevin Poulin is in net tonight with Anders
Nilsson on the bench.
Evgeni Nabokov is traveling with the team, but
is still injured and will not play.
The Islanders started the game with jump. They made crisp passes, worked hard along
the boards and moved the puck well.
Kevin Poulin look confident and made some big saves for New York. Slowly, something changed that made some
sloppy habits returned for the Isles.
Creative officiating showed itself through out the first half of the
game with some amazing non-calls on behalf of the Isles, but that would not be
an excuse. New York needed to play a
better game. Dallas would score twice off mistakes by the Islanders and take a
2-0 lead into the second period. The
Isles would respond in the second at the mid point of the period when Kyle Okposo
would finish a sick passing play from Tavares & Vanek to make it a 2-1
game.
In the third period, both teams would create
some chances. Dallas seems to be aware
of the officials blind eye against the Isles and John Tavares is getting the
worst of some non-existent high sticking calls while Cal Clutterbuck took the
worst of some cross checking. Travis
Hamonic has left the ice and Arthur Staple has reported he may not be
back. Kyle Okposo (de Haan) ties the
score at 2-2 with his second of the game with a nice wrist shoot that gets
behind Ellis. The Isles have taken back
momentum and answered the challenge from Dallas. John Tavares takes a nice feed from de Haan & Vanek and gives
the Islanders a 3-2 lead late in the third period. Dallas pulls their goaltender and Brock Nelson makes them pay
with an ENG, 4-2 Isles. That was 3 goals in the last 5 minutes. Shots on goal
were even at 31 and although the PK was good, going 2 for 2, the PP went 0 for
2.
Now if we could just master the occasional blow-out from the start of the game thing, that would be great. Maybe just once or twice to try it out? Get back to us then.
Screen capture from Kevin Schultz of IPB
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