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The Islanders' Three Goalie Monte
The New York Islanders returned from the All-Star break, and their message to the NHL is clear. They mean business. But it's still the Islanders, and in gaining 5 out of 6 points this past week, they did it in unconventional, Islanders fashion. Three games. Three starting goalies. Not a normal...
Styles and Contrasts? Islanders Shot Blocking for Nabokov vs. Montoya
Occasionally Islanders fans try to decipher whether the team plays any different in front of Evgeni Nabokov than it does for Al Montoya or Rick DiPietro. It's a common reach to explain any perceived trend in any team's season, but as is so often the case there's not much clear data to go on --...
Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Kevin Poulin on Over
It wasn't exactly home cooking, but Anders Nilsson got the benefit of NHL travel, service and salary through the end of the 2011 holidays while serving as Evgeni Nabokov's backup for the past 2.5 weeks. Nilsson did not see any playing time -- Nabokov, whose numbers against Tuesday's opponent are...
How Rick DiPietro Retirement Rumors Roll
Twitter rumors circulated yesterday and today, the way Twitter rumors do, that Rick DiPietro's agent was in contact with one party or another about the goaltender retiring. Lots of authoritative talk about insurance. Followed by critical holes quickly being poked in the rumor, like Kevin Schultz...
Top 25 Islanders Under 25: They let a goalie in? Kevin Poulin at #7
The occasion of a Kevin Poulin win this morning in Bridgeport -- Tim Wallace with the hat trick, including the OT winner -- is a good time to roll out perhaps the most hit-or-miss member of our Top 25 Under 25. What's clear from our voting (which took place before preseason) is all voters like...
Evgeni Nabokov: Pleasantly Surprising
Note: Nabokov's soreness rules him out against his former teammates tonight -- sounds like Rick DiPietro gets his first start -- but Sharks fans will be pleased to hear he's been fine so far. It seemed like in the offseason among Islander fans there were many camps over what should be done with the...
Islanders Top 25 Under 25: Anders Nilsson at #15
Where to rank goalies? TSN struggled with that, listing just one (record-breaking Tim Thomas) in the top 25 of their recent Top 50 NHLers list. The challenge is you're never sure how good they are and their performance (and the numbers we use to try to measure that performance) can fluctuate...
2011-12 Islanders Goaltending Preview: When six is greater than two
In one universe, you have two former NHL All-Stars, a first-round pick who put up a .921 save percentage last year, and two hot-shot prospects biding their time in the AHL. In the alternate universe, you have a guy who was the backup on his AHL team last year, a guy who bottomed out in the KHL and...
Evgeni Nabokov's Mask Seems to Indicate Embrace of This Whole Islanders Thing
Oh, it doesn't mean much really -- goalie masks for pros tend to grow on trees these days -- but we've dinged the man plenty for his refusal to report last spring. And he just lost an unimaginable number of friends in the Lokomotiv tragedy. So some empathy and good-natured praise here: Evgeni...
Pick 'em: Which Islanders goalie carries the load?
In February, when Kevin Poulin was shut down for the season, Evgeni Nabokov was feeling uppity and Al Montoya was not yet on the way, I recalled a season where a team used seven goaltenders. But because the New York Islanders are graced by lady luck's sadistic sister, they got to stop at just six...
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