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ISLES VS. SENS; 11/5/05
Topic Started: Nov 5 2005, 08:31 AM (392 Views)
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GAME: New York Islanders (6-7-0) at Ottawa Senators (10-2-0).

TIME: Saturday, 7 p.m. EST.

After missing a game with a knee injury, goaltender Rick DiPietro had the misfortune of facing star rookie Sidney Crosby and the surging Pittsburgh Penguins.

DiPietro and the Islanders face a bigger challenge as they open a three-game road trip against the high-powered Ottawa Senators.

Ottawa, which leads the Eastern Conference and is tied with Detroit for the NHL lead with 58 goals, received a team-record four goals apiece from Martin Havlat and Daniel Alfredsson in a 10-4 rout of the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday night.

The following night, Havlat and Alfredsson both tallied again as the Senators became the first team in the Eastern Conference to 10 wins by posting a 4-2 victory over the defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning.

Havlat, who returned Wednesday after serving a five-game suspension for kicking Boston's Hal Gill, opened the scoring against the Lightning 7:13 into the game.

"It wasn't that much fun when I wasn't playing," Havlat said. "It's a much better feeling here in the last two games."

The Senators blew a two-goal lead, but Wade Redden - a first-round pick of the Islanders in 1995 - scored his sixth goal on a pass from Alfredsson in the third period to snap the tie. When Ottawa's offense slowed, six-time Vezina Trophy winner Dominik Hasek stopped 18 of 19 shots in the final 20 minutes to seal the victory.

"He was the difference in the game, I felt," Ottawa coach Bryan Murray said. "We got a couple of pucks into the slot that we scored on, and they had a couple of really good chances and I thought Dominik was outstanding for the most part."

DiPietro, the first pick in 2000 draft, gave up a pair of goals to Crosby - this year's top overall selection - in New York's 5-1 loss to the Penguins on Thursday. DiPietro finished with 28 saves, including several deflected, redirected, and one-timed shots.

"They moved the puck pretty well and exposed us a bit," DiPietro said. "(Crosby's) a good player, but that's a good line."

Alexei Yashin scored his eighth goal in the second period for the Islanders to tie Miroslav Satan for the team lead, but New York managed just 22 shots on goal. The Islanders have allowed at least five goals four times this season.

STANDINGS (through Nov. 4): Islanders - 13 points, 4th place, 5 PB, Atlantic Division. Senators - 20 points, 2nd place, 1 PB, Northeast Division.

TEAM LEADERS: Islanders - Yashin and Satan, 8 goals; Alexei Zhitnik, 10 assists; Yashin, 17 points; Janne Niinimaa, 32 PIM. Senators - Alfredsson, 12 goals; Jason Spezza, 18 assists; Alfredsson and Spezza, 23 points; Chris Neil, 33 PIM.

SPECIAL TEAMS (through Nov. 4): Islanders - Power play: 14.7 percent (13 for 88), 24th in NHL. Penalty killing: 80.9 percent (85 for 105), 18th. Senators - Power play: 21.3 percent (16 for 75), 6th. Penalty killing: 83.3 percent (70 for 84), 13th.

GOALTENDERS: Islanders - DiPietro (4-5-0, 0 SO, 3.44 GAA); Garth Snow (2-2-0, 0, 3.69). Senators - Hasek (7-2-0, 2, 2.08); Ray Emery (3-0-0, 0, 2.95).

2003-04 SEASON SERIES: Islanders, 2-1-1.

LAST MEETING: Jan 19, 2004; Islanders, 5-2. At New York, Roman Hamrlik snapped a third-period tie and Oleg Kvasha and Cliff Ronning added insurance goals as the Islanders won the season series (2-1-1) from the Senators for the first time since 1993-94.

ROAD/HOME RECORDS: Islanders - 2-4-0 on the road; Senators - 5-1-0 at home.


— Associated Press

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:fear:

I'll be needing a few :drink2: during the game tonight, I just know it. Then again i also have a feeling i'll be :crying2: after too. Ah well....

Let's Go :isles: !!!
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Stay down Rick. Stay. Down.
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I know the feeling!!!

at least it'll be in the comfort of my own home and not $200 worth of agony at the coliseum.

But hey!
Maybe they can pull a rabbit out of a hat? WE don't know. Maybe the stars will be in their favor tonight and they'll catch all the breaks. How cool would that be?
That would be a great way to start off a tough road trip!

:WORSHIP:
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Well ... if the Sens play Emery and underestimate the Isles, it is possible.

But Rick better look sharp, and the rest of the team will have to--well--show up.
Especially on D.




Spezza ... Chara ... Redden ...

:angrier: :sick: :angrier: :sick:

Smolinski ...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Yashin, you ARE the weakest link. Goodbye.
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either we win a close won...

or we get blown out of the water!!!


the way this team is playing..... it's hard to have confidence after watching the sens on the NHL CENTER ICE package while watching the ISLES play the pens last game
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For us to have a chance to win Ricky will have to steal it and play stellar. Then we may stay in the game long enough to have a chance. Possible, but like I said, whoever is in goal MUST have one of the best games of the year.


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LETS GO ISLANDERS

maybe someone other then yash will score tonight, we sure as hell are going to need it, senators are almost gauranteed 4 before the puck drops.
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This game is over. Hasek is going to get the shutout. I just feel it.
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no no... too soon... it may not be a shut out....
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The Master takes a penalty ... and we take a 2-0 nosedive.


Anyone who takes a penalty should have to buy the Rick a beer after the game!
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:



On a more serious note ... we are frickin' dead. Does anyone still think this team (as it is now) stands a chance in hell of making the playoffs, let alone winning the division?



That's what I thought ...
Yashin, you ARE the weakest link. Goodbye.
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no payoff tak till dec!
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Trade Martinek and Oleg Kvasha for Some eccentric 3rd liner
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Martinek isn't bad. I'd keep him... you probably couldn't get anything worthwhile for him.

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I sorta like Kvasha tho i aint gonna lie...York is kinda pissin me off tho :isles:
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YORK SUCKS!!!!

I Love Yashin :banana:
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nice yashin took down Chara!

cool.....

come on!!! why isn't Satan on his game tonight!!!!
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http://www.nypost.com/sports/islanders/islanders.htm

Our friend, Mr. Grossman is equally as frustrated.

This article is short and to the point.
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What's up with Newsday this morning. Did Hahn submit an article so scathing that it couldnt be published and they replaced it with a fluff article by KEN WARREN. Who the hell is Ken Warren?

Sizzling Ottawa make good on power plays

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http://www.nypost.com/sports/islanders/islanders.htm

Our friend, Mr. Grossman is equally as frustrated.

This article is short and to the point.

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Oleg Kvasha refused to move his feet against one of the fleetest teams in the world; Niinimaa was a human disaster area again; and the Isles continued to take mindless penalties, such as Shawn Bates' (minus-2) pair of offensive-zone calls, the first of which produced Ottawa's second goal. Brent Sopel was invisible again.


:bag: :bag: :bag: :bag:
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I'd say Hahn needs a day off after last night. :ph43r:


Anyone read Kris King's assessment of the first 12 games (posted on the official site)?
It is incredibly hard to come up with such a positive spin on this team so far. It is even harder to swallow it.

Hahn is probably tired of saying the same things over and over ...

He also hasn't updated his mailbag in months.
He openly said the Isles should resign Aucoin, Webb, and use Bergenheim.
But the team has no clue .... that has got to be frustrating!
Yashin, you ARE the weakest link. Goodbye.
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