being a possible 1st round opponent, I'm curious how the Islanders will look against them tonight. Hopefully Chara takes it easy and doesn't hurt himself again trying to hit Tavares.
But we play a system here. We succeed because of the system. We'll go with the experiment today but we all need to be rowing in the same direction. I don't like the idea of disrupting prosperity.
Jaro Halak gets the start between the pipes, and looks to be facing Rask as he was first off the ice this AM.
Same forwards, d-pairs as Tuesday's game.
If you didn't notice it, Cal Clutterbuck is now wearing the "A" in KO's absence. He's built up a ton of respect in the room and on the ice. I totally understand what he means to a team, but there's also part of me that wonders why Hamonic, or perhaps even Boychuk didn't get the A. Not complaining, but an idle thought.
Tidbit (from Elliotte Friedman): in the ASG postgame handshake, Ryan Johansen apologized to JT for being awarded the game MVP. You can see how much it bothered Johnny since he promptly scored and got First Star in Tuesday's return to the regular season.
Tonight we honor the greatest pure goal scorer in NHL history with Mike Bossy mini-locker night. Maybe this is a good omen with Doubledeuce starting the thread (see, try to find positives!). Bossy on the current Islanders:
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This whole season is a little surreal. I don’t think anyone expected the team to be where they are today. In general these guys are more mature, they know how to handle more situations a lot better than they used to. They have a number of lines out there with good chemistry together and its working.
Very nice story here; a family from Prince Edward Island will be attending the game (with the help of their great community back home) after tragically losing the husband/father in a homicide in late 2014. The slain father/husband was a lifelong Isles fan and was laid to rest in his Islanders sweater. After seeing the recent E:60 documentary featuring Travis Hamonic, the mother noted:
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Hamonic invites a young fan, who has lost a loved one, to [each] game. It was the subject of an ESPN E:60 documentary, In The Name Of The Father. Kim McGuigan recently watched it with Kayden and Abbey, the two oldest children.
"You could hear a pin drop in the house," Kim said.
Jiffy Lube Live in Haymarket, VA. Taking one of my sons to his first concert...he's just taken up drums (he's 10 and also a huge classic rock fan), so I figured he may as well see the best to have something to aspire to!
I'm shocked. Speaks to the poor quality of what we put out there. They pushed our shit in that period. They had more jump and played desperate. OTOH, we got no pressure, and mahy shots were easily steered away by Rask. We need to match the intensity.
Shot partially blocked by Soderberg. Some good luck following the Bs so far...that needs to stop (along with the refs missing quite a few slashes/crosschecks). And Grabbo with JT is pertty frickin' sweet, eh?
But it seems like this year more than any other, the refs let broken sticks lay on the ice for a very long time. You'd think with 4 officials out there, someone would swoop in as soon as there was some clearance.
Needed to let Jaro know he was right there. Could have easily killed the remaining seconds. Damn shame, because that was a great rebound period for the Isles.
Oh well. This team likes to overcome adversity, even when they cause it themselves. Let's take this, 5-3.
Where someone should get these guys so fired up in the room that they come out wanting to tear shit apart, like Forrest Whitaker's character in Fast Times at Ridgemont High after his car got wrecked. They got off the mat after being decked in the first. Clawed back into it and now need to impose their will to take this one back.
Lee needed to shoot that instead of the pass to Fransie. As JT said earlier, Rask has had some trouble with the puck...just get it on net, FFS. And what happened here...did we deliver a bunch of tickets to the Boston area as a relief package? Too many Bs fans there for my taste.
- No backcheck tonight for the Isles. Need to ensure that doesn't happen again.
- The refs sucked, and missed a lot of calls, both ways, but surely more for the Isles
- File the Marchand shit away for later and destroy that fuck.
- Still making the mistake of the extra-fine pass (ex: Lee on the 2 on 1). Take the shot. Period.
- While the Bruins had some exceptionally good luck on some of their goals, I hate to say that I need to blame Halak squarely. The giveaway at the end of the 2nd for that late goal, and the 3rd period goal he'd gloved, but couldnt hang onto for the goal. Terrible. Get that out of your system now as opposed to later. I thought we imported Nabby there for a while.
- That late 2nd period goal conceded was the moment where the game turned. Sucked the life out of the Isles, and the wind out of the Coli crowd.
- JT is a supreme being. That is all.
Doubledeuce...why, man...why?
Had a lot of shots like the Rangers did the other night Â
Rask made some great saves. The goal at the end of the 3rd was a killer. Move on all that matters is the next game. Can not win them all.
I will say this one more time we have to get a quality PKer on this team. That is going to kill us.
You're right, we can't win every game. But it sure is nice to have a team out there playing where we either expect it, or know that they are certainly capable of it.
Forget this one, and on to the Motor City. Let's get some goals for Ocho.
sloppy play tonight and Halak wasn't at his best. Still, I like the way Tavares is playing. Game could've been completely different if not for that goal at the end of the 2nd. Onto Detroit!
From a game we controlled most of, here are some salient points from the great folks over at LHH. Bottom line: sometimes you have a clunker, and you don't get the bounces (or calls). Put it behind us and focus on a smokin' Red Wings squad.
Good perspective:
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The most notable thing about tonight's game was that there were plenty of opportunities. John Tavares lead the way with nine individual Corsi attempts and seven scoring chances, but only managed to put one puck in the net due to that lost step. The team as a whole took 45 shots on Boston and Tuukka Rask went crazy. Everybody on the team had at least one attempted shot and everybody but Nick Leddy, Ryan Strome and Cal Clutterbuck had at least one scoring chance. It's hard to blame the team when opponents' goalie posts a .95 save percentage. Ultimately the biggest passenger in today's game may have been Jaroslav Halak who posted a .87 save percentage.
Given the facts that the Islanders have been playing extremely well, the offense clicked but was shut down by a Vezina winning goalie, that they out-possessed and out-shot their opponents, and that they were playing on two days rest while their opponents were playing on nine, this is probably an okay loss. Yes Halak had a bad game, but hopefully he stops playing the puck like he did tonight. Perhaps those shots he scored in the All-Star skills competition went to his head. Regardless, this is a loss to forgive, forget and move on from (though the playoff chances fell from 99.82 to 99.61 according to Sports Club Stats so maybe everyone should panic).
Oh, and Brad Marchand, after the highly legal and unpenalized jumping on JT's back, then the subsequent two hands on the stick shove of 91's mug into the ice...payback is a bitch:
Positive note at BPT: Ryan Pulock to resume skating with the team today. They won't rush him back, but good to see nonetheless.
What was equally impressive was his work on the 2nd goal, where he was aggressive on the forecheck and swooped in on the B's defender behind the goal, used his body to shield off the defender and took the puck, and alertly threw the pass up top to Boychuk. Very similar in sequence how he undressed the Devils recently for his GWG goal.
He is so pure. And he's playing with a ton of confidence right now.
That play by Marchand. Would have loved to hear butchies coments
Jay, Butchie was incensed and felt that Marchand could have been called for 2 penalties on the play, interference and roughing. Howie was miffed as well, especially since the play too place right in front of the ref, who watched the entire sequence.
who gives a fuck what you and Brett think. Secondly, this loss is a good thing. If you go beating the Rags, Bruins etc on a consistent basis it makes those teams hungry to beat you. Which means come playoffs the Isles would be ripe for losing the series. However with the B's winning, now the Isles have a taste of what it takes to beat them.
Another angle here, no one took the Isles seriously until about a month ago. Therefore we are starting to see our opponents best efforts and will need to adjust accordingly.
who gives a fuck what you and Brett think. Secondly, this loss is a good thing. If you go beating the Rags, Bruins etc on a consistent basis it makes those teams hungry to beat you. Which means come playoffs the Isles would be ripe for losing the series. However with the B's winning, now the Isles have a taste of what it takes to beat them.
Another angle here, no one took the Isles seriously until about a month ago. Therefore we are starting to see our opponents best efforts and will need to adjust accordingly.
I wouldn't go as far as to call the loss a good thing. No loss is a good thing, IMO. I feel like "character losses" (like week 17 of 2007 for the G-Men) are once-every-five-years event. I don't believe in them.
All that said. If you're going to lose:
- Play well and play hard (they did)
- Rangers lose
- Penguins lose the night before
- Isles lose to a red hot team
- Isles lose to a team that bumps the rangers down in the standings
....all in all, if you're gonna go down, that's the way to do it.
who gives a fuck what you and Brett think. Secondly, this loss is a good thing. If you go beating the Rags, Bruins etc on a consistent basis it makes those teams hungry to beat you. Which means come playoffs the Isles would be ripe for losing the series. However with the B's winning, now the Isles have a taste of what it takes to beat them.
Another angle here, no one took the Isles seriously until about a month ago. Therefore we are starting to see our opponents best efforts and will need to adjust accordingly.
Agree completely. The Rangers will def wind up eliminating the Isles at some point because they're figuring out "what it takes to beat them"
Good to see the top line mesh with the loss of KO.
Call me crazy, but assuming the injury to KO is longer than expected, how would people feel seeing them trade for Jagr to keep on JT's wing?
Doubledeuce...we'll give you this one. But if you fuck it up, back down to BPT.
I'll have some gameday bits later.
Thin ice, DD...
Good to see the top line mesh with the loss of KO.
Call me crazy, but assuming the injury to KO is longer than expected, how would people feel seeing them trade for Jagr to keep on JT's wing?
Even without Okposo I like our forwards as they currently are. Wouldn't want to trade an asset to get Jagr.
Good luck DD
Amped up for tonight. Another good test for us and we seem to play well against the top opponents.
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Doubledeuce...we'll give you this one. But if you fuck it up, back down to BPT.
I'll have some gameday bits later.
And yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about this at all.
Yeah, I read that earlier. Hope all the county execs read it as well. The dipshits.
Same forwards, d-pairs as Tuesday's game.
If you didn't notice it, Cal Clutterbuck is now wearing the "A" in KO's absence. He's built up a ton of respect in the room and on the ice. I totally understand what he means to a team, but there's also part of me that wonders why Hamonic, or perhaps even Boychuk didn't get the A. Not complaining, but an idle thought.
Tidbit (from Elliotte Friedman): in the ASG postgame handshake, Ryan Johansen apologized to JT for being awarded the game MVP. You can see how much it bothered Johnny since he promptly scored and got First Star in Tuesday's return to the regular season.
Tonight we honor the greatest pure goal scorer in NHL history with Mike Bossy mini-locker night. Maybe this is a good omen with Doubledeuce starting the thread (see, try to find positives!). Bossy on the current Islanders:
Very nice story here; a family from Prince Edward Island will be attending the game (with the help of their great community back home) after tragically losing the husband/father in a homicide in late 2014. The slain father/husband was a lifelong Isles fan and was laid to rest in his Islanders sweater. After seeing the recent E:60 documentary featuring Travis Hamonic, the mother noted:
"You could hear a pin drop in the house," Kim said.
Let's Go Islanders!
I feel the sense of possibilities
I feel the wrench of hard realities
The focus is sharp in the city
Let's get two!
We will see Chad Johnson tonight. Book it.
Fuckin' Halak, wandering again costs them.
Oh well. This team likes to overcome adversity, even when they cause it themselves. Let's take this, 5-3.
- The refs sucked, and missed a lot of calls, both ways, but surely more for the Isles
- File the Marchand shit away for later and destroy that fuck.
- Still making the mistake of the extra-fine pass (ex: Lee on the 2 on 1). Take the shot. Period.
- While the Bruins had some exceptionally good luck on some of their goals, I hate to say that I need to blame Halak squarely. The giveaway at the end of the 2nd for that late goal, and the 3rd period goal he'd gloved, but couldnt hang onto for the goal. Terrible. Get that out of your system now as opposed to later. I thought we imported Nabby there for a while.
- That late 2nd period goal conceded was the moment where the game turned. Sucked the life out of the Isles, and the wind out of the Coli crowd.
- JT is a supreme being. That is all.
Doubledeuce...why, man...why?
I will say this one more time we have to get a quality PKer on this team. That is going to kill us.
Forget this one, and on to the Motor City. Let's get some goals for Ocho.
Unless you were talking about the Rask save :P
No, but the Risk save was unbelievable
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Good perspective:
Given the facts that the Islanders have been playing extremely well, the offense clicked but was shut down by a Vezina winning goalie, that they out-possessed and out-shot their opponents, and that they were playing on two days rest while their opponents were playing on nine, this is probably an okay loss. Yes Halak had a bad game, but hopefully he stops playing the puck like he did tonight. Perhaps those shots he scored in the All-Star skills competition went to his head. Regardless, this is a loss to forgive, forget and move on from (though the playoff chances fell from 99.82 to 99.61 according to Sports Club Stats so maybe everyone should panic).
Oh, and Brad Marchand, after the highly legal and unpenalized jumping on JT's back, then the subsequent two hands on the stick shove of 91's mug into the ice...payback is a bitch:
Positive note at BPT: Ryan Pulock to resume skating with the team today. They won't rush him back, but good to see nonetheless.
-Capuano
Here comes the tough sledding part of the season....
The coaches have to drill into them about playing each period for the full 20 minutes. Giving up goals with under 5 seconds left is deflating
they put boulton and okposo on ir after break, so they had an extra slot. Casey played in the 3rd. its just so we have that extra skater around
I love watching him, but I liked watching him more when you guys sucked dick.
He is so pure. And he's playing with a ton of confidence right now.
Jay, Butchie was incensed and felt that Marchand could have been called for 2 penalties on the play, interference and roughing. Howie was miffed as well, especially since the play too place right in front of the ref, who watched the entire sequence.
Another angle here, no one took the Isles seriously until about a month ago. Therefore we are starting to see our opponents best efforts and will need to adjust accordingly.
Another angle here, no one took the Isles seriously until about a month ago. Therefore we are starting to see our opponents best efforts and will need to adjust accordingly.
I wouldn't go as far as to call the loss a good thing. No loss is a good thing, IMO. I feel like "character losses" (like week 17 of 2007 for the G-Men) are once-every-five-years event. I don't believe in them.
All that said. If you're going to lose:
- Play well and play hard (they did)
- Rangers lose
- Penguins lose the night before
- Isles lose to a red hot team
- Isles lose to a team that bumps the rangers down in the standings
....all in all, if you're gonna go down, that's the way to do it.
Haha seriously??
Another angle here, no one took the Isles seriously until about a month ago. Therefore we are starting to see our opponents best efforts and will need to adjust accordingly.
Agree completely. The Rangers will def wind up eliminating the Isles at some point because they're figuring out "what it takes to beat them"
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There was a game last night ???????? Ha
Haha seriously??
Lol...not seriously
On another note.. Doubledeuce... back to Bridgeport!!
Amac up to cover zeeker if he can't go tomorrow.
Double douce? Bossy???
Saw a picture of All Arbour with Jiggs and Eddie. Al isn't well. Sad picture.
saw that picture of Al too. No, he does not look well. Hope he's ok. A great leader!
Sounded like there were a ton (25-30%) Bruins fans.
Sounded like there were a ton (25-30%) Bruins fans.
Islanders are telling you to go fuck yourself