Islanders-Flames [game thread]
by Dominik on Mar 25, 2010 6:45 PM EDT
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Calgary Flames (37-27-9, 9th/W) at New York Islanders (29-34-10, 28th)
Nassau [gloriously unsponsored] Veterans Memorial Coliseum
7 p.m. EDT | MSG+2 (twice the plus, half the resolution!) | radio
Tenders of the Flame: Matchsticks and Gasoline
Oh hey look, it's the lovely joy of MSG+2! The Rangahs and dem Devils get the primo MSG and singular plus slots tonight. That may even be a better game.
If you missed it in the preview comments, (and not to promote it just because it quotes by borderline Dane-ophile love of Frans, but hey: It's Frans!), Kent of Flames Nation had a stat-oriented look at the Selke qualifications of Frans Nielsen.
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Biron is in
And Jeff Tambellini … out there with Comeau and Tavares?
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Trent Hunter appearance
Dirty-area goal to give the Isles another double-digit goal scorer.
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...and 50 seconds later: 1-1
Flames get it right back. Dawes on a great drive-by deflection in front of Flood, for Flood’s first NHL minus.
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Lost almost EVERY faceoff......
…..yet held the Flames to NO SOG…..oh, it’d gonna be another weird one……
Okposo with 4 minutes in the box
Uggghh!!!!
Wow.
Two minutes extra for unsportsmanlike. Really? Some ref trying to make a statement after just calling him for two consecutive penalties?
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Tonight's refs
- Kevin Pollock
- Chris Rooney
I think Pollock made the initial call (which was horrible), but they went to commercial, so I’ve no idea why he got the extra and from whom.
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Stupid autofill
That was supposed to be Pollock-#33 and Rooney-#5
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Okposo yapped at the ref
Okposo must have really hurt his feelings complaining about the call.
I saw him smiling sarcastically
But really now. And both are pretty bad, but I expected it’d be Rooney to overreact.
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Nielsen giving it to Sutter
I’m not sure it’s a very good sign that Frans is one of the scrappier players on the team.
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Some players on this team are at a point where they are gonna have to do their own fighting
in order to earn some space and respect. Okposo is one of those guys who’s at that point. Not to say he has to fight every night or be the teams enforcer. Just has to show he’s not afraid to drop em.
Agreed
Liked seeing Okposo go after Avery last night. Need a little more, but it’s a good sign. They need to “become men.”
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PK gets the hard hat for period 1
Six minutes in penalties to kill off, all by Okposo. The PK unit kept it a game.
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Gotta love Doug McLean
one of the few guys who can be passionate about this game and not come off like a total dick. jack Edwards do take note.
Def. a better commentator than he was a GM
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Comeau, Comeau
Using his speed is nice, but sticking around the perimeter is not. And bad retaliation penalties are not cool.
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Imagine if Park had the hands to match his skating?
That guy has one of the most lopsided skill sets in the game.
Matty Mo!
Ties it up at 2-2 in the first minute of the 3rd.
And I was just about to whine about Moulson and Tavares being separated…
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In a nutshell
- Trent Hunter gets a goal from banging around the net. The Flames answer back within a minute.
- Then the Flames spend six minutes of PP time in the first — all Okposo penalties — but the PK kills ’em
- Nystrom scores on a net crasher for a 2-1 Flames lead in the 2nd
- Moulson answers with a net-crasher in the first minute of the 3rd.
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Sounds good. What did KO do to piss the refs off do much?
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 25, 2010 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions
His second penalty was an absolute joke
Just a total misread by the ref.
Then he skated to the box with a big sarcastic smile, and they cut away to commercial. Don’t know if he kept yapping, but he hardly looked like a guy who’d lost his cool.
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lol. I think it would take a lot for KO to lose his cool.
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 25, 2010 9:08 PM EDT up reply actions
That’s what I was thinking. But I don’t expect much from either of these refs (Rooney and Pollack).
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Nystrom the Younger
Loved the intermission interview, by the way. Great stuff. Maybe it’s just me, but I figured the reason Bobby was the most subdued celebrant of the Nystrom clan was because he didn’t want to be cheering a goal against the Isles too demonstratively at the Coliseum.
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Would they unretire the number if he was signed this summer?
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 25, 2010 9:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I spent the intermission thinking about it
Do the Stastny — oh wait, Colorado never kept Stastny’s number retired. They only retired Bourque’s number for a season and a quarter of work, but not for the guy who defined the franchise for a decade.
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See, that I dunno how to feel about it… I can understand why they would retire it but at the same time I can understand why they wouldn’t. After all Stastny played for Les Nordiques, not for the Avs. I don’t think the Hurricanes still honor Rick Ley, Gordie Howe or John McKenzie’s retired numbers from The Whalers.
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 25, 2010 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions
I can see that. But I could have handled a hiatus, at least. And I was a big Stastny fan. And I was appalled when they rushed Bourque’s number up there; that just reeked of expansion-like gimmick.
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My eyes!
Fitting topper to the whole “win Ray the Cup/make the playoffs about one man” campaign by ESPN.
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Not to mention they played that stupid song by Lifehouse every friggin commercial break that year. I loved Ray Bourque, even though he was a B, I loved the way he played and still have a ton of respect for him. But yeah, thanks ESPN.
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 25, 2010 9:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Alright, I know this is off topic, but after looking for the Whaler’s retired numbers I wound up looking at the 84-85 roster, and Jesus if they had just kept on to some of these guys they probably would still be in Connecticut not Raleigh:
21 year old Ron Francis
20 year old Ray Ferraro
20 year old Sylvain Turgeon
20 year old Ulf Samuelsson
19 year old Sylvain Cote
That was quite the good young core to build around, too bad the franchise was mismanaged so poorly.
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 25, 2010 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions
3rd period comeback win for us in the 3rd?
Finally?
We’ll see…
There it is!
Tonight it’s Bruno Jekyll.
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Ach ja, oder nicht-nicht?
Ach ja, ach ja.
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Uh-oh
And now he’s gone to the locker room.
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That’s a nicht nicht
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 25, 2010 9:17 PM EDT up reply actions
There's something really stinky and smelly about the reffing in this game
Do one of these refs have monsy on this game?
Earlier one of the linesmen screened Comeau in the NZ.
Then there was the BS call on Okposo.
I gotta see this highstick replay.
Generally, these two stink of incompetence
But maybe they have some action on the game. Guess we’ll see how many more PPs the Flames get!
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Not much chemistry from Tamby/JT/Comeau tonight
Not saying it’s Tambellini’s fault, but they don’t have a rhythm. Glad Gordon has stuck with it though. No point trying it if you just break it up after two shifts.
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Isles win! 3-2.
Ideal scenario, too: Nystrom The Younger scores, and the Isles down the Flames and put their playoff hopes in the oven.
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Send him Upstate to the Culinary Institute of America, makes both parties happy.
We're doomed. Doomed!
by David Hanssen on Mar 25, 2010 9:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Got wrapped up in something
And totally forgot about this game – pleasantly surprised to see a “W.”
Game winning goal by Bruno? I’ll take it! Oh, and Marty was in goal! And Hunter got his 10th! And Matty Mo keeps creeping toward 30!
Crud, I really wish I had watched this one.
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