Vote for Your Favorite Islanders Game of 2010-11
by Mark D on May 24, 2011 11:42 AM EDT
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PrintSometimes a season is bad, and you just don't want to look back. Sometimes there are bright spots which at least get you through the year. Even when the Islanders self destructed in 08-09 we could talk about how Joey MacDonald helped shutout the Red Wings in spectacular fashion. This year it feels as though there were a lot of bright spots, with all the negative stuff being shoved into a one-month stretch.
So I talked with Keith, Mike and Dom and came up with a list of what we consider the best games of the year. So it's time to vote on the nominees in the poll after the jump:
Oct. 11: Islanders 6, Rangers 4: James Wisniewski teaches Sean Avery how to work the Shake Weight.
Oct 21: Islanders 3, Lightning 2: The Islanders take control of the top spot in the Eastern Conference.
Nov. 26: Islanders 2, Devils 0: The Islanders end the losing streak and give Cappy his first win.
Dec. 31: Islanders 4, Red Wings 3: An Overtime Win against the Wings continues the Islanders' dominance of them.
Jan. 15: Islanders 5, Sabres 3: Coming off his All-Star snub John Tavares' hat trick powers the Islanders past the Sabres.
Feb. 11: Islanders 9, Penguins 3: Friday Night Fights!
Feb. 13: Islanders 7, Sabres 6: Michael Grabner's hat trick includes the OT game winner.
March 31: Islanders 6, Rangers 2: An Islanders team that has basically given up on the season destroys a Ranger team which desperately needed a win to stay in playoff contention. Oh and this happened.
Obviously if you think I missed out on a great game during the season, feel free to comment below and let me know. It wouldn't be the first time a poll of mine was won by a dark-horse candidate someone recommended.
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Night of the Penguin Slaughter!!
Hands down, this one is it for me!
We are all Islanders, even if we are in Jersey!
by Russel Ginart on May 24, 2011 11:55 AM EDT reply actions 6 recs
Can we get this added to the Isles Zeitgeist now?
Official choice of Lighthouse Dog #1.
by Fabtraption on May 24, 2011 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions
Isles Zeitgeist is specifically for fiction, parody, satire
These are actually games that really happened, so it’s better than Zeitgeist! Real things, baby!
(Voted 6-2 Rags game. I know the 9-3 game will be a runaway winner, but one Avery is worth seventeen Talbots. If they’d been able to get to Cookie in that game, though…)
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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Oh I just meant the title of the game, the Night of the Penguin Slaughter
Official choice of Lighthouse Dog #1.
by Fabtraption on May 24, 2011 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Fab, I can't take credit for this title.
One of our LHH posters came up with it back in February, I can’t remeber whom.
We are all Islanders, even if we are in Jersey!
by Russel Ginart on May 24, 2011 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
::shifts eyes back and forth::
Official choice of Lighthouse Dog #1.
by Fabtraption on May 24, 2011 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I voted the 6-2 game as well
Different reasons….I was out most of the Penguin massacre where the islanders almost got in trouble with the federal government for making the Penguins an endangered species. Since I only saw about half the game I didn’t want to vote for it.
I also thought Opening Night only because I missed hockey and the first game is always something I have to see.
Lucky dog
I missed about half of these games live. I swear, every time I headed out of town and out to the woods, something massive happened.
WebBard left me a voicemail about how crazy the Pens game was, and I was so sure he was pulling my leg that I didn’t bother to check the score until hours later.
This is why I’m not allowed to watch any games next season.
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For me, that was the best game of the past 18 years
You only figure 8 once.
by The Black Map on May 24, 2011 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions
No doubt
Proud Islanders fan, the organization that iced the greatest team to ever play the game, whom won 4 consecutive cups. I'm bleeding Blue and Orange.
Let's go Islanders! Beep...Beep...Beep.Beep.Beep.
Datsyuk IS the best player in the nhl
"The Brawl to End It All" as I like to call it.
Build a 6-0 lead, then beat the living crap out of them.
Matt Martin’s right hook.
Maxine Talbot learned an important lesson that night: You can run, but you can’t hide.
If only Cooke had been around for Gilies to go psycho on…
Ya ever seen Frans Nielsen’s eyes, Chief? Those…cold…black…lifeless eyes, like a dolls eyes…
by BrassBonanza10 on May 26, 2011 2:07 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah absolutely the Pens-Isles game
No game was as cathartic as this one for an Isles fan. Only 9 days after DiPietro got his face punched in, the Isles run a complete beatdown on the Penguins, both physically and on the scoreboard.
Close second would be the 7-6 Sabres game, that Grabner goal in OT was just amazing.
Official choice of Lighthouse Dog #1.
Catharsis dessert
As far as catharsis during this season, Haley short-circuiting Avery’s usual drill was a nice after dinner cordial.
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I voted for Islanders/Sabres
Not textbook hockey, but a blast to watch nonetheless with a hell of an ending. I was giddy.
They should add Islanders/Penguins to that 10 greatest games in Islanders History DVD set. I’d buy it again.
I was at a Sound Tigers game that day
I told a friend to text me when there was an update and my phone was ringing almost non stop the entire game. Of course I miss the game where my favorite player scores a hatrick. Happened 2 years ago when Tambellini got a hatrick against the sabres. At another friends house and was pretty happy to get home the next day and see the highlights
Even before the fights were raging, when it was 6-0, it had become my favorite game of the season.
by Les Beaver on May 24, 2011 12:18 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
That's a good point
That game was fantastic well before Godard tried to “change momentum” with Gillies I mean Orpik tried to kill Grabner I mean Talbot took another “my mother doesn’t discipline me” whack at Koskinen I mean the Islanders became big bad mean rotten bullies who wouldn’t play fair and victimized the completely innocent, purely motivated angelic Penguins and their shiny spotless halos.
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by Dominik on May 24, 2011 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Now you've done it
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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by mikb on May 24, 2011 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
In that case that cat looks like P*SSY!!!!
We are all Islanders, even if we are in Jersey!
by Russel Ginart on May 24, 2011 6:10 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
25 minutes?
If I remember correctly, that was around the 25 minute mark.
by North Dakota Red Eagle on May 24, 2011 9:32 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I'm conflicted
The Pens-Isles was pretty awesome, but I was at JT’s natural hat trick game. So I’ll go with that one.
Now, kids, being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep; in giant blender.
by meigs1414 on May 24, 2011 12:57 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
There really isn't much to argue about, is there?
Yes, there could be an argument here and there for one game or another, but it would be difficult to vote for anything other than the defiant game against the Pens. I don’t care what anyone else says about our team. That will become a defining moment in the franchise’s history.
Only half a year 'til Opening Night! ... *Sigh!*
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on May 24, 2011 1:02 PM EDT reply actions
Doggone it
In this household there is always going to be something to argue about!
And that’s FINAL.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A doughnut with no hole is Frans Nielsen.
Sssssooooooooo......
…. Then there’s no arguing about it? Which means your statement is wrong and we have to argue, but there’s no arguing, so….. /head explodes.
Only half a year 'til Opening Night! ... *Sigh!*
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on May 24, 2011 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Don't you start
Or I’ll turn this car around.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A doughnut with no hole is Frans Nielsen.
Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
Only half a year 'til Opening Night! ... *Sigh!*
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on May 24, 2011 8:54 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
you're just being disagreeable
from the peanut gallary
NOWHERE Nearly enough defensemen to last through the injury bug
PPP is going to push harder for its sign JT campaign
because you didn’t say favourite. The Canadians must be fuming.
I'm a mets, jets, islander, and terps fan. Also known as a glutton for perennial punishment.
I actually liked another Pens-Isles game better
Right before the winter classic when we snapped Crosby’s point streak due to the magic of Frans and then beat them in a shootout. It was a packed house and fortunately I was in attendance. Loud as the Coliseum has been in awhile.
"It's a good thing the Islanders spent the offseason compiling organizational depth on the blueline. Because, yes, they're losing defensemen almost as rapidly as they're losing games."
I was just in the middle of writing my own comment on that game
I was there as well. The atmosphere at that game was great, especially as the game neared the end with the score tied and snapping the point streak looking like a very real possibility. Although I’m not sure I’d put it at the top of the list, I definitely think it deserves to be mentioned.
YES!
I was there as well for that game. I posted in the recap afterwards that it was the loudest I’ve ever seen the Coli in 5+ years. My friend, a Rags fan came, and as he was making fun of the Isles / Coli before the game, afterwards he was extremely impressed with the team, the fans, and the loudness of the Coli (I dare anyone to say that MSG can, at it’s loudest, be louder then NVMC at ITS loudest).
And after the game it was the first major parking lot jam I’ve been in at NVMC in a long time :)
Proud to root for the Jets, Mets, and Islanders!!!
by CharlieIsles on May 24, 2011 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions
These are good
Keep these coming — it really helps (me) make sure other games don’t get forgotten.
It’s weird, since I’ve been doing this site I’m much poorer at remembering specifics in specific games. Like I’m worried about four more things as the games are going on, so the normal fan details don’t get imprinted in my memory as well.
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I was there
In attendace. It was the only game I came to see this season down from CT. I always try to see a Pens game because they are usually high scoring/ intense. Franz was great that game.
by North Dakota Red Eagle on May 24, 2011 9:40 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Honorable mention to Isles 6 Sabres 5 (OT)
I voted for the Penguins game because that was clearly the most memorable game of the year. Still wanted to give a shout-out to where Grabner’s break-out game where got a hattie capped off by the winning goal in OT.
by Men without hat tricks on May 24, 2011 1:43 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
No question about it
The game when the Isles restored pride into the organization was the day of reckoning when the Isles distributed beat downs on the Pens with their fists and their sticks
The Isles slaughtered the pens! What a game!!!!!!
I was there and was going nuts the whole game. I only remember siting down for about 5 minutes the entire game….I just watched my dvr version of the game and it really does make me proud to be an Islander fan. Love how this game sent a message and showed we aren’t to be taken lightly. Cant wait for October, Lets go Islanders!!!!!!
by Dmoney22 on May 24, 2011 3:00 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
yeah it was awesome to see us pile on the goals after each fight
looking at the empty benches at the end of the game is something I will always rememeber. plus the team pulled together nicely afterward
Any task BIG or small, Do it well or not at all
by Rickfansince76 on May 24, 2011 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions
THAT was a surreal image
I look over at the benches during our rec games and there are more subs than there was at the end of Fight Night ’11. It was bizarre.
We may be in the box, but you get the penalty.
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2-11-11, No Doubt
Was a complete team effort with a steady beat-down of Pittsburgh’s dirtiest. It was like a party in Angelina Jolie’s mouth and the whole coliseum was invited.
I was going to be angry that this was on the list
Oct. 11: Islanders 6, Rangers 4: James Wisniewski teaches Sean Avery how to work the Shake Weight.
but that’s well played.
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by Brandon C. on May 24, 2011 7:08 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
The Penquin defeat
The reason that 9 to 3 defeat of the Penguins was so important and gratifying is that they had treated the Islanders extremely unfairly and badly – and,despite how the league penalized the team and players – that game brought respect back and showed that the Islanders weren’t to be treated as they had been. That the Penquins had done what they had to begin with made them disappointments as Hockey and as Professional players. That one game turned many things around for the Islanders – and deservedly. There were many many good things that happened for the team during the season – despite the won and lost column, many potential great players emerged, but that one game brought much together for the team, for the players and for the fans, in my opinion.
Although I did lie that last Ranger vs Islander Game
The Penguin game meant more. It meant that the Islanders were ready to step up. They became ready to take on the challenges that lie ahead and to take them on together. The days of the lowly Islanders seemed farther away, even if other teams didn’t realize it.
All Who Oppose Grabner Shall Perish.
of course
its ferocious friday! did they play any other games?
this question should worded – BESIDES ferocious friday, what was your favorite islanders game of the season?
haley
pounding and bloodying avery was a close second
by ripcurl2121 on May 24, 2011 11:12 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
The 9-3 game was #1, but I adored this game early in the season
http://islanders.nhl.com/club/recap.htm?id=2010020069
Islanders vs Maple Leafs, playing against a then undefeated Maple Leafs team, Roloson stops 29 of 30, Martinek makes a blocked shot with <10 seconds left to send it to overtime, where JT snipes a one timer for the win
That was pretty sweet
To have JT do it in Toronto, no less…
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The Pens game is a runaway for several reasons.
Not only did it address years of frustration on the Isles behalf but most of the Atlantic conference was behind us on that one. Therefore it is the first time that the Isles were not mocked by the Flyer, Ranger and Devil fans in a long time. They were all (mostly) in agreement that the Isles had accomplished more than reestablish a sense of pride. The fact that the team against them happened to be the Pens was a huge bonus in the Isles favor considering the amount of favoritism that was afforded to the Pens over the last…God knows how long.
The team came together and finally showed a spine when sticking up for one another which rarely happend under Gordon’s watch (I liked Gordon but team unity was not a strength of his).
The scoreboard was a blowout before the bulk of the fireworks were lit and that showed that the Isles had some focus going into the game. It also put a spotlight on some of the talent that is developing on the Isles. If it was only stated for the rest of the hockey world to read before this game then this is the game that brought the highlights to many viewers that would otherwise tune out the Isles. They truly took center stage and opened some eyes with that game.
This game could possibly win again next year given the results that it produced.
Plus it continued out storied history against the Pens.
Who better to have this game against if not the Rangers. The Pens fans may hate the Flyer fans in their hearts but they detest Isles fans in their souls. You can feel the hate flowing inside of them. LOL!
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