The 'Next One' - Lan's New York Islanders

[GoldenJet]

Re: The 'Next One' - Lan's New York Islanders

Great job but by the way, Pomminville has the Bruins logo on top of his picture rather than the Sabres logo.

[IslandersHockey09]

Re: The 'Next One' - Lan's New York Islanders

Yeah, and whats the deal with the goalie situation?

[LanteriX]

Re: The 'Next One' - Lan's New York Islanders

Yeah, and whats the deal with the goalie situation?

It sucks, is the deal really. Both Roloson and Biron are garbo. Pretty much alternating them every other game until November when I'll bring DiPietro back.

[LanteriX]

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4 - 3

Isles Take Advantage of Greiss, Win 4-3

The Islanders top line took home all 3 stars in the win.

October 17, 2009	1	2	3	OT	F
	0	2	1	-	3
	2	0	2	-	4
Nassau Coliseum - Uniondale, NY

Team Statistics
Shots on Goal	37	27
Shooting %	8	14
Powerplays	0/3	1/5
Powerplay Time	5:45	6:58
Faceoffs Won	27	15
Passing %	77	68
Time On Attack	9:05	7:53

1st Period	Scoring Summary	Score
1:15	Matt Moulson (3) Kyle Okposo (2)	NYI 1-0
7:45	Kyle Okposo (4) (PP) John Tavares (3), Mark Streit (6)	NYI 2-0
	Penalty Summary
6:13	Hooking (Minor) - Jody Shelley
6:27	Fighting (Major) - Andy Sutton
6:27	Fighting (Major) - Nick Petrecki
6:27	Fight Instigator (Minor) - Nick Petrecki
18:20	Slashing (Minor) - Patrick Marleau

2nd Period	Scoring Summary	Score
4:04	Patrick Marleau Unassisted	NYI 2-1
11:15	Joe Pavelski Rob Blake, Devin Setoguchi	TIE 2-2
	Penalty Summary
1:50	Elbowing (Minor) - Bruno Gervais
8:00	Tripping (Minor) - Josh Bailey

3rd Period	Scoring Summary	Score
2:46	Logan Couture Scott Nichol	SJS 3-2
6:14	John Tavares (4) Matt Moulson (5)	TIE 3-3
17:48	Matt Moulson (4) John Tavares (4), Bruno Gervais (2)	NYI 4-3
	Penalty Summary
4:44	Hooking (Minor) - Brendan Witt
5:39	Tripping (Minor) - Patrick Marleau
13:43	Slashing (Minor) - Manny Malhotra
19:13	Tripping (Minor) - Andy Sutton

Goalie Stats
Team - Goalie	S	SV	GA	SV%
Martin Biron	37	34	3	.919
Thomas Greiss	27	23	4	.852

3 Stars
Matt Moulson			John Tavares			Kyle Okposo
G	A	+/-	G	A	+/-	G	A	+/-
2	1	+3	1	2	+3	1	1	0

Current Record: 4-2-0
Next Opponent: 10/21 vs. Carolina Hurricanes (3-2-1)

[LanteriX]

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Isles Report: Shanahan Signs, Tavares Shines

Uniondale (AP) -- It's official: The Isles and 40-year-old future hall-of-famer Brendan Shanahan have reached an agreement. Shanahan has agreed to a 1 year 1.475M deal to join the Islanders second line. The victim of Shanahan's signing is rookie Rob Schremp who has appeared in all 6 games this season, but has as of yet registered a point. The move was strictly due to the Islanders not wanting to risk losing Hillen or Tambellini through waivers as Schremp was the only one they were considering sending down that is on a 2-way contract.

Shanahan will be uniform and on the second line in the Isles upcoming matchup with the 'Canes. Weight has yet to return, so he will be joining with Bailey centering and Comeau shifting over to the left wing. He will also join the second power play unit on the right wing, moving Park over to center, and Bailey to left wing.

Tavares, Isles Young Top Line Impressing

John Tavares has certainly wasted no time in proving exactly what all that hype was about. The rookie centerman has already formed great chemistry with his "elder" linemates in Matt Moulson and Kyle Okposo, and because of that the trio have amassed 23 points between them. Tavares has racked up 4 goals and 4 assists, including a game winner.

It's Matt Moulson, however, who seems to be intent on stealing the spotlight. Moulson signed with the Islanders after spending a majority of his professional career with the AHL affiliate of the L.A. Kings. He racked up a total of 25, 28, and 21 goals in three seasons with Manchester, but despite that was unable to secure a roster spot on the Kings.

Now with the Islanders in his first extended stay in the NHL Moulson finds himself on a top forward line and is playing like exactly that. He has turned in 9 points thus far including 4 goals and 5 assists and is looking to be one of the steals of the off-season.

Goaltending: Sometimes Too Much Isn't Enough

Sometimes when a team has too much goaltending, it's a good problem to have. Think of Osgood and Hasek, Fernandez and Thomas, Lemelin and Moog. In the Islanders case, a duo of veterans have proven to be more of a "pick your poison" duo than a good problem to have. Both Biron and Roloson have struggled thus far, but fortunately for them have been picked up by the Islanders offense.

It seems the two goaltenders fail to realize the importance of their play in the month of October with DiPietro set to return in November. It's very likely that whoever performs the best will remain with the Islanders, while the other will be sent through waivers. So in a competition to possibly display their talents to another interested team, or to keep their spot on the Islanders, neither has risen to the occasion to prove their worth.

[GoldenJet]

Re: The 'Next One' - Lan's New York Islanders

Good luck with Shanahan, I'm sure he'll do wonders for you.

[LanteriX]

Re: The 'Next One' - Lan's New York Islanders

4 - 2

Shanny Scores in Debut, Islanders Win 4-2

Shanahan scored a power play goal in the 2nd period in his Islanders debut.

October 21, 2009	1	2	3	OT	F
	0	1	1	-	2
	1	1	2	-	4
Nassau Coliseum - Uniondale, NY

Team Statistics
Shots on Goal	27	33
Shooting %	7	12
Powerplays	1/5	1/5
Powerplay Time	9:29	9:24
Faceoffs Won	26	17
Passing %	74	69
Time On Attack	5:45	8:08

1st Period	Scoring Summary	Score
4:44	Mark Streit (2) John Tavares (5), Kyle Okposo (3)	NYI 1-0
	Penalty Summary
2:40	Slashing (Minor) - Eric Staal
8:31	Hooking (Minor) - Rob Brind'amour
12:28	Slashing (Minor) - Rob Brind'amour
17:08	Interference (Minor) - Andy Sutton

2nd Period	Scoring Summary	Score
5:02	Brendan Shanahan (1) (PP) Brendan Witt (2), Bruno Gervais (3)	NYI 2-0
7:49	Rob Brind'amour (PP) Matt Cullen, Tuomo Ruutu	NYI 2-1
	Penalty Summary
0:48	Tripping (Minor) - Kyle Okposo
3:19	Hooking (Minor) - Tuomo Ruutu
6:12	Hooking (Minor) - Sean Bergenheim
16:18	Hooking (Minor) - Rob Brind'amour
19:29	Brendan Witt - Elbowing (Minor)

3rd Period	Scoring Summary	Score
6:12	Eric Staal Joe Corvo	TIE 2-2
14:39	John Tavares (5) Unassisted	NYI 3-2
19:38	Jeff Tambellini (1) Richard Park (2), Jon Sim (4)	NYI 4-2
	Penalty Summary
16:29	Tripping (Minor) - Sean Bergenheim

Goalie Stats
Team - Goalie	S	SV	GA	SV%
Dwayne Roloson	27	25	2	.926
Cam Ward	33	29	4	.879

3 Stars
John Tavares			Dwayne Roloson			Mark Streit
G	A	+/-	S	SV	%	G	A	+/-
1	1	+1	27	25	.926	1	0	+1

Current Record: 5-2-0
Next Opponent: 10/22 @ Montreal Canadiens (5-3-0)

[LanteriX]

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5 - 4

Islanders Drop a Wild One

The teams combined for 6 goals in the first period, led by D'Agostini's two.

October 22, 2009	1	2	3	OT	F
	3	0	1	-	4
	3	1	1	-	5
Bell Centre - Montreal, QC

Team Statistics
Shots on Goal	32	35
Shooting %	12	14
Powerplays	0/3	2/5
Powerplay Time	6:01	7:20
Faceoffs Won	14	29
Passing %	69	80
Time On Attack	7:20	9:19

1st Period	Scoring Summary	Score
4:11	Jeff Tambellini (2) Jon Sim (5), Richard Park (3)	NYI 1-0
5:51	Frans Nielsen (3) Trent Hunter (1), Freddy Meyer (3)	NYI 2-0
14:11	Matt D'Agostini Unassisted	NYI 2-1
14:38	Matt D'Agostini Georges Laraque, Paul Mara	NYI 2-2
16:27	Frans Nielsen (4) Sean Bergenheim (1)	NYI 3-2
19:09	Josh Gorges (PP) Paul Mara	TIE 3-3
	Penalty Summary
6:56	Hooking (Minor) - Paul Mara
9:42	Slashing (Minor) - Hal Gill
18:33	Elbowing (Minor) - Sean Bergenheim

2nd Period	Scoring Summary	Score
16:59	Andrei Kostitsyn (PP) George Latendresse, Tomas Plekanec	MTL 4-3
	Penalty Summary
3:52	Slashing (Minor) - Trent Hunter
5:55	Tripping (Minor) - Josh Bailey
7:19	Interference (Minor) - Jon Sim
18:06	Elbowing (Minor) - Max Pacioretty

3rd Period	Scoring Summary	Score
5:02	Glen Metropolit Unassisted	MTL 5-3
7:01	John Tavares (6) Kyle Okposo (4), Matt Moulson (6)	MTL 5-4
	Penalty Summary
7:51	Elbowing (Minor) - Blake Comeau
19:51	Tripping (Minor) - Radek Martinek

Goalie Stats
Team - Goalie	S	SV	GA	SV%
Martin Biron	35	30	5	.857
Carey Price	32	28	4	.875

3 Stars
Matt D'Agostini			Frans Nielsen			Glen Metropolit
G	A	+/-	G	A	+/-	G	A	+/-
2	0	+3	2	0	+2	1	0	+3

Current Record: 5-3-0
Next Opponent: 10/24 vs. Washington Capitals (5-3-1)

[gbpckr50]

Re: The 'Next One' - Lan's New York Islanders

Great job so far will definitely be following.

[LanteriX]

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3 - 2

Lack of Execution Costs Isles

Ovechkin scored twice in the defeat of the Islanders.

October 24, 2009	1	2	3	OT	F
	1	2	0	-	3
	1	1	0	-	2
Nassau Coliseum - Uniondale, NY

Team Statistics
Shots on Goal	18	30
Shooting %	16	6
Powerplays	0/1	1/5
Powerplay Time	0:42	8:54
Faceoffs Won	22	17
Passing %	74	74
Time On Attack	7:34	9:13

1st Period	Scoring Summary	Score
9:34	Josh Bailey (5) (PP) Brendan Shanahan (1), Radek Martinek (3)	NYI 1-0
11:25	Alex Ovechkin Unassisted	TIE 1-1
	Penalty Summary
7:58	Tripping (Minor) - Brendan Morrison

2nd Period	Scoring Summary	Score
10:43	Dave Steckel Matt Bradley	WAS 2-1
13:24	Andy Sutton (1) Matt Moulson (7), John Tavares (6)	TIE 2-2
15:21	Alex Ovechkin Shaone Morrisonn, Mike Green	WAS 3-2
	Penalty Summary
2:44	Interference (Minor) - Milan Jurcina

3rd Period	Scoring Summary	Score
	No Scoring This Period
	Penalty Summary
9:31	Slashing (Minor) - Quintin Laing
12:47	Slashing (Minor) - Quintin LAng
16:25	Slashing (Minor) - Tom Poti
18:49	Interference (Minor) - Trent Hunter
19:33	Slashing (Minor) - Mike Knuble

Goalie Stats
Team - Goalie	S	SV	GA	SV%
Dwayne Roloson	18	15	3	.833
Semyon Varlamov	30	28	2	.933

3 Stars
Alex Ovechkin			Semyon Varlamov			Andy Sutton
G	A	+/-	S	SV	%	G	A	+/-
2	0	+1	30	28	.933	1	0	+1

Current Record: 5-4-0
Next Opponent: 10/26 @ Montreal Canadiens (6-4-0)

[LanteriX]

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Isles Report: Isles Acquire Joe Corvo, Weight and DiPietro Return

Uniondale (AP)

Islanders Acquire Joseph Corvo

The Islanders have traded RW Trent Hunter and LW Jesse Joensuu to Carolina for D Joseph Corvo. The Islanders were actively shopping around for a puck moving veteran offensive defenseman to help give the Islanders a little extra punch from the blue line. With the acquisition, Freddy Meyer was scratched to make room for Corvo on the second pairing with fellow veteran Brendan Witt. Gervais was moved to the top pairing with Streit, and Martinek was dropped to the 3rd pairing with Andy Sutton.

Corvo will serve as the right point man on the second power play unit.

Weight and DiPietro activated, Tambellini Scratched, Schremp Recalled

Doug Weight and Rick DiPietro have been cleared to return to play and will both be in the starting lineup Tuesday night against the Canadiens. Weight has missed all but one period of the season thus far with a broken hand. DiPietro missed the first few weeks of the season finishing up his recovery from multiple offseason knee surgeries. He had been practicing for a majority of the month of October and was finally cleared to return to action Tuesday night.

With the departure of Trent Hunter, Rob Schremp was called back up to join the Isles and will regain his spot on the second line with Doug Weight and Brendan Shanahan. Blake Comeau has been moved to the 3rd line right wing in Trent Hunter's vacated spot. Both Bailey and Nielsen have moved down a line each at center to 3rd and 4th, while Park has shifted back to right wing on the checking line.

The power play units shake out as following:

PP1:
Moulson-Tavares-Okposo
Streit-Shanahan

PP2:
Bailey-Park-Comeau
Weight-Corvo

Biron Claimed on Waivers

The Boston Bruins claimed Biron off waivers. Biron's short stay with the Islanders ends with him posting a 3.78 GAA in 4 starts. Good riddance.

[LanteriX]

Re: The 'Next One' - Lan's New York Islanders

3 - 1

Canadiens Spoil DiPietro's Return

Halak stood tall for Montreal allowing just one goal despite being in 7 shorthanded situations.

October 26, 2009	1	2	3	OT	F
	1	0	0	-	1
	1	2	0	-	3
Bell Centre - Montreal, QC

Team Statistics
Shots on Goal	28	31
Shooting %	3	9
Powerplays	1/7	0/2
Powerplay Time	11:12	2:31
Faceoffs Won	18	16
Passing %	70	75
Time On Attack	11:17	5:08

1st Period	Scoring Summary	Score
5:02	Mark Streit (3) Blake Comeau (3), Richard Park (4)	NYI 1-0
6:43	Guillaume Latendresse Paul Mara, Glen Metropolit	TIE 1-1
	Penalty Summary
3:42	Slashing (Minor) - Max Pacioretty
7:39	Slashing (Minor) - Yannick Weber
10:51	Slashing (Minor) - Max Pacioretty
19:55	Hooking (Minor) - Scott Gomez

2nd Period	Scoring Summary	Score
3:25	Scott Gomez Mike Cammalleri, Brian Gionta	MTL 2-1
16:34	Brian Gionta Tomas Plekanec, Hal Gill	MTL 3-1
	Penalty Summary
10:41	Slashing (Minor) - Josh Gorges
14:12	Slashing (Minor) - Travis Moen

3rd Period	Scoring Summary	Score
	No Scoring This Period
	Penalty Summary
1:47	Tripping (Minor) - Brendan Shanahan
2:16	Tripping (Minor) - Josh Gorges
12:00	Holding (Minor) - Kyle Okposo
19:56	Tripping (Minor) - Kyle Okposo

Goalie Stats
Team - Goalie	S	SV	GA	SV%
Rick DiPietro	31	28	3	.903
Jaroslav Halak	28	27	1	.964

3 Stars
Jaroslav Halak			Brian Gionta			Scott Gomez
S	SV	%	G	A	+/-	G	A	+/-
28	27	.964	1	1	+2	1	0	+1

Current Record: 5-5-0
Next Opponent: 10/28 vs. New York Rangers (7-5-0)

[Millennium]

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Looking good, Lan.

Just a heads up - the reason your scoring summary logos are off is becuase when there are less than 4 digits in the time (0:00 instead of 00:00) I use a space in front of the number to keep the formatting correct.

Definitely following. Caps dynasty is coming soon for me, working on some new HTML.

[LanteriX]

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DiPietro, Tavares Lead Isles Past Rangers

Note: Played this game this morning, but was too tired to do the box score before I went to bed so I saved it and went off. There's no way of checking the box score so I'm doing this article instead.

Uniondale, NY (AP) -- It doesn't really take much to explain why the Rangers-Isles have a rivalry. You don't even have to look past the team's names really to get that much. The two Atlantic division foes squared off today at the Nassau Coliseum in the first of several meetings on the season, and it was the young Islanders team that took the Rangers to school in a 4-1 victory led by rookie John Tavares. Tavares was a force in his introduction to the rivalry, netting the first two goals of the game, his 7th, and 8th of the young season, the second of which proved to be the eventual game winner.

Rick DiPietro, who struggled initially in his return against the Canadiens on Monday night, made his home return tonight to thunderous applause from the home crowd. At the beginning of the evening they were merely applauding his return, while by the end of the game it was his 1st star effort that was drawing the appreciation of the crowd. DiPietro was masterful, turning away 24 out of 25 shots in the victory.

Also adding goals were Frans Nielsen, who picked up his 5th, and Doug Weight, his 1st. Weight added an assist for his first two points of the season since returning from injury. Rookie Rob Schremp also tallied his first point on the season, picking up an assist.

The Islanders improved to 6-5-0 with the victory, while the Rangers slipped to 7-6-0. The Isles will travel to Washington for a matchup against the 6-4-1 Washington Capitals on Friday night, the first of back-to-back games with the Isles traveling back home to face the Sabres on Saturday. The Caps defeated the Isles last weekend on the strength of two Alex Ovechkin goals.

Dwayne Roloson is expected to get the call in net for the Capitals game. DiPietro will return to the crease against the Sabres.

[GoldenJet]

Re: The 'Next One' - Lan's New York Islanders

Looking good, Lan.

Just a heads up - the reason your scoring summary logos are off is becuase when there are less than 4 digits in the time (0:00 instead of 00:00) I use a space in front of the number to keep the formatting correct.

Definitely following. Caps dynasty is coming soon for me, working on some new HTML.

Sweet, can't wait for your Caps Mill, awesome job Lan. I'm still following.