Isles Links: Better goalies are belong to us
by Dominik on Oct 14, 2009 6:30 AM EDT
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PrintEven with the advent of the "loser point" -- which confounds my traditionalist sensibilities and inflates records everywhere -- with last night's loss the Maple Leafs are now said to be off to their worst start since 1990-91, which is the year the Devils drafted Scott Niedermayer with a pick that the Leafs traded for ... oh let's not go there. Leafs fans have suffered quite a bit for a two-week-old season. Anyway:
- Old friend Joey MacDonald was in goal. It didn't go well, but it wasn't all Joey's fault and maybe no goalie could save them and their awful penalty kill. [Behind The Net two-fer]
- Keeping with the theme of ex-Islanders goalies who were Red Wings products, Chris Osgood got lit up by the Sabres, who shoot a lot, finally scored a lot, and happen to be the Islanders' next opponent. Great. (However: Tomas Vanek got hurt and will likely miss Friday.)
- Keeping with the theme of goalies who used to play for the Islanders, Rick DiPietro made more progress in his rehab.
- Hockey's Future has an update on the Islanders' system depth, but it doesn't even mention Josh Bailey and it mentions "high expectations" for Tony Romano. Hmm.
- Sean Bergenheim sent a full statement to Botta to clarify his reported declining a chance for more minutes at RW.
- 7th Woman's long-held love for Jason Blake took a hit after he rand Drury into his own goalie. But come on, it was the Rangers!
- The Drive for Five is back, busy and optimistic about the kids.
Today, I am grateful for Dwayne Roloson ... as long as we don't go to any more shootouts.
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Hockey's Future
The Islanders HF page definitely needs some work, I doubt Kirill Petrov is still the Islanders #3 prospect behind Tavares and De Haan.
Mafia's thoughts - and alot of surfin
Petrov – currently he’s rotting on the bench on a team owned by a rich oil company
- question would you sit on the bench making 1million rubles or go to bridgeport for 70,000 u.s
I hope that Tim Thomas gets hurt or performs as well as he has and Boston panicks and gives us Toronto’s 1st pick for Marty
Putting on the Brakes – we have to be patient there is alot of good values out there (Watching the past games and actually lookin competitive makes me want to rush out and grab guys to push us over the top, believe me I’ve even run the scenerios of relieving CHI of Huet and even grabbing Cambell but this would be a mistake)
Right now watching our prospects system and our salary cap (lets remember decisions have to b made on Okposo and Bailey) We have about 14.4 mil to spend this yr and a little more (4mil) with Sutton and Sim being gone after this yr. Sum it up we do have some money to take on some contracts but we also the guys in our own system to take place and us having one more crack at the lottery will eventually not make us a competitve team but a Dominate team. Next yrs graduates I see
Martin and Dibennedtto taking forward spots
Dehaan And Macdonald (yes Mcdonald watch some of his highlights in the Bridge he looks awsome)
- my opinion I dont see Figren or Jonseu in the big picture
taking there place next yr on the Bridge
at foward – Rakshanni, Jason Gregorie (guys a Beast)and Sims
on defence – Niemi, Hamonic, and Kessel (hell b ready
Let guys like Ness,Donovan and Toews get more experience and bigger at the college level (and at a good cost) only hope Lucia knows not to F@ck with us by not giving Ness first pairing and PP time or hell be on the bridge sooner than later
In my sum it would be nice to specd that money on ready made talent but save that money for our own who r just getting in the sysytem and will have to b also paid eventually (not making mistakes like the Blackhawks or the Bruins losing Kesselbecause things were not thought out right). And my no means will it hurt us to grab another top 5 pick (and hopefully’s TOR pick in the up-coming draft)
Petrov
It took me a little bit to find the news, why KHL doesn’t have an english translation is beyond me. But this isn’t exactly what I’d call promising. I’d guess that Hockeydb.com doesn’t track Russian JR Stats.
Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) – As he struggled finding any roster spot, Kirill Petrov (New York Islanders) has been sent by his KHL team, Ak Bars Kazan, back to the Russian junior league, where he already scored a goal in each of the two games he’s been iced in. Getting demoted in the junior team is surely a step backwards for Petrov considering the role he had in the team a couple of seasons ago, but it might be good if he manages to rebound back with some good performances and earn a call-up with the pro team.
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