Links: Weight/Bergenheim injuries, Islanders preseason loss, rookie win
by Dominik on Sep 17, 2009 6:30 AM EDT
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PrintOvernight, the volume of hockey digital ink flowing has ramped up as the season nears. If you see a cool link, don't hesitate to post it as a FanShot (those are the quick posts below the longer FanPosts). Give it a good headline so we know what it's about. Just because you've seen it elsewhere doesn't mean we can't discuss it here.
Meanwhile, it's preseason -- so there must be injuries, hope, and gnashing of teeth:
- Injuries: Frans Nielsen back in New York to examine his knee; Doug Weight and Sean Bergenheim out with groin injuries. I guess we have our answer to this question.
- 3-2 loss to Edmonton in Tavares' debut: Bruno Gervais and Calvin de Haan with the goals. Tavares with 1 shot and 22:50. Update: Video highlights are after the jump. How 'bout that de Haan goal, eh?
- Update: Lots of coverage in Edmonton. Sheldon Souray was breaking glass again...twice.
- Also: Several new FanPosts on the right side of this site, including BCIsleman's videos of Isles practice.
- The Islanders rookies won their game against U. of Saskatchewan, and Joel Rechlicz kind of went ape. (He fought last night against Steve MacIntyre, too. Here's video. "Technically sound," they said.)
- The Dynasty Isles, they like to golf. Which I guess is why Ken Morrow hit a hole in one.
- Remember Ryan O'Marra? Of course you do. It's make-or-break time for the Ryan Smyth trade bait.
- Elsewhere, Jason Allison thinks he can make it back, and Shawn Bates -- who we remembered last week -- has already been cut from his tryout contract with Colorado. Ouch.
Did you catch the game last night? If so, let's hear your thoughts in comments. [Video highlights after the jump.]
Meanwhile, thanks for keeping the comments threads interesting. We're almost to the part where we talk about actual hockey games!
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I love the caption!
slightly out of position
Lawson was almost on the bench at that point!
SHOOOOOOOT IT!!!! Anon
by burpchelischili on Sep 17, 2009 6:49 AM EDT reply actions
Maybe he thought he was being pulled already for a preseason game. Or there was a hot young thing in the crowd putting her number on the glass.
More about that play, plus an uh-oh for Sutton:
Eberle turned big defenceman Andy Sutton, who has played 500 NHL games, inside-out with one rush, hit the crossbar with an open net, and was dangerous on many shifts
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Pictures
By the way, for anyone who hasn’t found this: If you click on these AP photos at the top of a post it takes you to a slideshow of more. Sometimes it’s completely unrelated, but if it’s a recent game photo, then it takes you to more pics from that game.
Surprising number of photos there for a preseason game. Those Canadians love them some hockey.
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I watched the whole game last night
Well, from half way though the first period.
Tavares looks shakey but did some good things. A couple of plays he really fought to get to the net. Made a lot of really nice tape to tape passes.
deHaan looked really good out there as well.
Hard to say much about anyone else from last night. They all look lost.
They all look lost.
Haha. Uh-oh.
Preseason is so chaotic. So many bodies coming through, so many games in a tight schedule; I don’t know how the coaches get a handle on what they have. I’d freak as a head coach because I’d want to see every minute of every player in the system, and that’s just not happening.
De Haan, man … that was a nice goal. Sounded awed but poised in his interview. I wanna see more of him.
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It does take a while for guys to catch up
but watching last nights game felt a lot like last season. I’m not talking so much about the sloppy play but guys just not certain about where they should be and what they should do. Gagne’s game tying goal last night was indicative of that.
I know there are a lot of new faces but there are also guys who played this ststem for a whole season at Bridgeport as well. It should be second nature for them.
Maybe tonight we see something different. This season, more than anything else, my eyes are on Gordon. Landing Tavares was nice but his team still did finish with the worst overall record in the league. And yeah, injuries and dpeth played a role.
But I’ve always held that a good coach gets players to play above their level of incompetence. Didn’t see much of that last season.
Whats your thoughts on Goring then? I’ve always felt he got screwed. The team was awful, and the only reason Milbury hired him was on the hope that people would be a little less pissed about the on ice product with him behind the bench. The second they started spending any sort of money on improving the team, they dumped him.
Goring really did get screwed BAD!!!
I don’t think his roster was as good as Gordon’s after the team was whacked with injuries. Goring really did have an AHL lineup.
I’m not declaring Gordon as an absolutely bad coach. I’m just skeptical.
I do think Goring deserved more than one season.
Goring got the shaft. I still wonder about that … if the whole experience soured him on coaching, or if the taint of it made no one in the NHL consider him again.
It did give us a nice analyst for TV, though.
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This is really interesting, and will be worth watching. I sort of gave Gordon a full pass because of the wreck of the lineup he had and how late in the summer he was hired. He really had nothing, started off with the org’s handling of the whole DiPietro cluster, dealt with injuries and vets who had signed on under Nolan, not some guy known for developing youngsters.
But the concerns are all worth monitoring: Employment of enforcers, keeping vets believing, sticking too aggressive without the personnel, and whether his intensity is the right match, too. I’m not even saying these are all definite problems, just that they’re complaints that might prove out. I think with a little better (and healthier) lineup he will be easier to evaluate. He certainly has the support of his GM, unlike past coaches — so that’s one thing that should position him to succeed.
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May 24, 1980: Tonelli to Nystrom. At long last, the steady build of the New York Islanders from expansion doormat to surprise semifinalist to annual contender reaches the promised land: Buoyed by a late season trade for Butch Goring that gave the team the depth up the middle GM Bill Torrey had been seeking, the Islanders knock off the Philadelphia Flyers in six games.
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.
