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Isles’ 3rd Period Comeback Sinks Rangers

September 26th, 2006 by murph

Part of me says “It’s only preseason”, and the other part of me says “F**k yeah! We beat the Rangers!”. The Isles lit the lamp four times in the final period to overcome a 2-1 deficit and collect their first preseason win of the year. Jason Blake led the 3rd period charge with 2 goals - the first a nice little tip in off a beautiful Shawn Bates pass, the second a powerplay slapshot four minutes later.

DP started the game and played about halfway through before turning it over to former Ranger Mike Dunham. DiPietro stopped 14 of 15 shots, Dunham 16 of 17.

Also of note was the Islanders special teams play which frankly, sucked last year. 3-3 on the powerplay and 6-6 on the penalty kill, although they did allow a shorthanded goal by Ivan Baranka in the first period.

The game was on TV last night and available on MSG-HD as well. Next game is Friday 7:30pm, Islanders/Rangers at the Coliseum this time. I looked, but I cannot confirm whether or not it will be on TV - it looks like it won’t be according to MSG Network and Fox Sports.

Last night’s lines:

Defensemen
32 Brendan Witt - 77 Alexei Zhitnik
6 Sean Hill - 14 Chris Campoli
8 Bruno Gervais - 3 Tom Poti

Forwards
45 Arron Asham - 79 Alexei Yashin - 25 Viktor Kozlov
7 Trent Hunter - 16 Mike York - 81 Miroslav Satan
15 Jeff Tambellini - 17 Shawn Bates - 55 Jason Blake
12 Chris Simon - 26 Peter Ferraro - 53 Brandon Cullen

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