Islanders-Rangers [Epis. 4 game thread]
by Dominik on Dec 26, 2009 6:45 PM EST
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New York Islanders (14-17-7, 4th/Atl) at New York Rangers (18-16-3, 3rd/Atl)
7 p.m. EST | Madison Square Garden | MSG, MSG+2, radio
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Roloson still running with the ball. Tambellini still observing from the rafters. Tim Jackman back and ready to throw. A Finn Named Jesse back down to Bridgeport to think about what he's learned.
Scheduling Note: Note that tomorrow's game, at home to the Flyers, is an early 5:05 p.m. start.
I'm still in holiday mode, in a good way. Hope you are, too. Here be thy Merry Game Thread, battle of New York style. If you're watching, drop a line and tell us what you see. If you're not watching, this conversation never happened, and this operation does not exist.
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I will only be able to join the thread if I can pry my lovely wifes hands from the computer. DARN you facebook, DARN YOU TO HECK!
SHOOOOOOOT!!!! Anon
by burpchelischili on Dec 26, 2009 7:09 PM EST reply actions
She said that her birthday is tommorrow, and I can sit and spin. Love may be blind, but it is rarely kind to the Hockey widows.
SHOOOOOOOT!!!! Anon
by burpchelischili on Dec 27, 2009 12:03 AM EST up reply actions
Don't know how much I care about this one
its overkill to have these guys play three times in two weeks.
I tend to agree. Three times in December? It’s like three times vs. the Leafs in the first half of the year. Overkill.
But I’ll always be tempted by the possibility of seeing Ranger pain. (That said, pretty sure family obligations are going to rip me away before too long.)
Lighthouse Hockey: Eyes on Tavares, mug full of Moulson.
First powerplay: Unimpressive
And capped out with a chance for Lisin as he came out of the box.
Lighthouse Hockey: Eyes on Tavares, mug full of Moulson.
Looks like we are getting outworked right now.
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
And how. And then they score on just their second shot. Hockey.
Lighthouse Hockey: Eyes on Tavares, mug full of Moulson.
Bailey-Okposo-Frans connection: 1-0
Against the run of play, but I’ll take it.
Lighthouse Hockey: Eyes on Tavares, mug full of Moulson.
Second Isles PP coming
This time, the objective is: A shot on goal!
Lighthouse Hockey: Eyes on Tavares, mug full of Moulson.
End of 1st: 1-0
And shock: Avery with two penalties, one a goalie interference. Very out of character for him.
Enjoy the rest, folks. I’m travelin’.
Lighthouse Hockey: Eyes on Tavares, mug full of Moulson.
Rangers looked better
We’re lucky to be up 1-0
I got my Okposo third jersey for christmas so he has to score now. Although after that big wiff on the first PP I am wondering if this is the game. You can see the lack of confidence.
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
shorthanded goal
that assist was as good as a goal
just got back and I agree. That was a beauty.
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
by metalcoconut on Dec 26, 2009 8:58 PM EST up reply actions
Holy hell
That assist was flat-out amazing. The OT goal, icing on the cake.
Consider your jersey properly christened!
Lighthouse Hockey: Eyes on Tavares, mug full of Moulson.
believe it or not that is usually pretty normal when I buy a jersey with a name. When I got my LaPointe jersey he had a breakaway on the PK that night. I was sitting 3 rows off the ice for that game. It was a pass back to Borque on the point and LaPointe got a step on the pass intercepted/pushed it out to center while chasing it and then he skated right by Borque and deked the goalie (Moog I believe). It was the most amazing goal I had ever seen while at a game. and I was on the Boston goal line 3 rows up. Amazing. I could tell you the Steve Webb jersey story but I’ll save that one for another time. :)
Believe me when I tell you that I was telling my fiance that KO would get a goal in that game throughout the whole game. He had to, it is tradition.
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
by metalcoconut on Dec 27, 2009 10:55 AM EST up reply actions
Well then thank YOU for giving KO the boost he needed by getting his jersey LOL!
Let Us Go, Islanders!
(Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Dec 27, 2009 12:10 PM EST up reply actions
Definitely time to increase your jersey budget. We’ll be needing more of these.
…and I look forward to the Webb story. Webb stories rarely disappoint.
Lighthouse Hockey: Eyes on Tavares, mug full of Moulson.
Tortorella really is a classless dickwad
He couldn’t be coach of a better team.
Sather and Torts; A match made in hell.
Thought I'd mention this
The Isles are starting to trap a bit in this game and that is smart thinking. The forcheck and the breakouts are a little better as is the defensive play.
Just what the Dr ordered to get these guy back on track.
Nice play by Gervais on Dubinsky
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
forget I said that…
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
by metalcoconut on Dec 26, 2009 9:03 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I was gonna say
They had the Defensemen in deep to join the play on that one.
they earned that one but that is just another example of how we need some bigger players especially on D.
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
by metalcoconut on Dec 26, 2009 9:07 PM EST up reply actions
I had that smoking=amputation comercial
It’s really inaccurate and that’s where they are going to really get in trouble with these anti smoking ads. Cigarette smoking does not lead to amputations.
how about a lobotomy?
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
by metalcoconut on Dec 26, 2009 9:13 PM EST up reply actions
Actually, it DOES.....
…..sorry to whistle you down on this one, Chickendirt, but my mother lost her other leg late this past October as a result of complications (PAD leading to circulatory collapse) from 60+ years of smoking…..wish that it didn’t, but…..it does.
Where did Dom go? I bet he is drinking?
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
Yes. With in-laws, away from game access.
But coming home to watch the final two of this one: Beautiful nightcap.
Lighthouse Hockey: Eyes on Tavares, mug full of Moulson.
If only he could have thrown the full can opener on that one…
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
by metalcoconut on Dec 26, 2009 9:19 PM EST up reply actions
Did we just get away with one?
That was a major hook there on Drury!!!
Sutton has a get out of jail free card this whole game.
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
by metalcoconut on Dec 26, 2009 9:28 PM EST up reply actions
WOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sooner or later someone is going to have to tell the truth about the Lighthouse Project and when they do I will probably be really old if not dead.
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The victory justified the faith in coach Al Arbour who guided them from their second season to their first Stanley Cup seven seasons later. The Islanders would not be the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup, but they would be the only one capable of a dynasty.
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May 21, 1981: This time it was much easier. After falling to "only" 91 points in the 1979-80 season, the Islanders returned to their division title tradition, piling up 110 points -- a whole 13 points over second-place Philadelphia.
Between the quarterfinals (where they beat the upstart Oilers in six games) and the finals, the Islanders reeled off eight consecutive wins -- with a four-game sweep of archrival Rangers in between. As they defeated the Minnesota North Stars in five games for their second Cup, their goal difference in the final was a combined +10.
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May 16, 1982: Another year, another landslide title. The Islanders won the Patrick Division by a whopping 26 points over the second-place Rangers, and were seven points clear of their nearest competition for the President's Trophy, the still-not-quite-ripe Edmonton Oilers.
A first-round scare against the Pittsburgh Penguins turned in the Isles' favor thanks to John Tonelli's heroics, and a true dynasty was on its way: Past the Rangers in six games, then an eight-game sweep of the Quebec Nordiques and Vancouver Canucks to run away with the Stanley Cup.
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May 17, 1983: Not so fast, whipper-snappers. The Edmonton Oilers' steadily rising challenge for league supremacy took them all the way to the finals for the first time, where the New York Islanders summarily dispatched them in a four-game sweep. For the Islanders, the Dynasty was secured. For the Oilers, it was a powerful lesson in where talent ends and the demands of playoff hockey begin.
Four years, four Cups, 16 consecutive playoff series wins (a record that would grow to 19 until the rematch with the Oilers the following year). Mike Bossy scored 60 goals yet again, and Wayne Gretzky became acquainted with Billy Smith's crease.
