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Isles Waste Strong Effort From DP, Fall to Sens

December 28th, 2006 by Tom

There’s that post-Ranger game hangover Murph warned about. As happens all too often, the Islanders fell to the Senators last night, bringing their record to 4-28-8 against the Sens in their last 40 meetings. The OrangeAndBlue mustered little offense on a night when the 67-Million-Dollar-Man looked worth every penny. Ottawa’s first goal came off a deflection off of Sean Hill’s skate and its second goal came during the closing seconds of its seconed consecutive power play, which followed a 5-3 advantage. Can’t blame DP for either one.

The latter goal was scored after Coach Ted took a penalty for chewing out ref Eric Furlatt. According to Newsday’s Greg Logan, Nolan told Furlatt that an earlier penalty call that resulted in the 5-3 advantage was “A $#%* call.” I’m thinking he went with “shit call” but who knows. Furlatt then hit Nolan with a bench minor for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Ordinarily, Islanders coach Ted Nolan is about as mild-mannered as anyone in the NHL when it comes to dealing with the officials. But if there’s one thing that has been stewing inside him this season, it’s what he sees as the occasional lack of respect his resurgent team has received from the referees.

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