Isles Score Some Goals, Still Drop 5th Straight
January 5th, 2007 by murph
It figures, for the first time since December 23rd the Isles scored 3 or more goals but even that couldn’t stop them from dropping their 5th straight game, 4-3 to the New Jersey Devils last night. I feel like Rob Schneider in “The Waterboy”.
With the way DP’s been playing, and Marty Brodeur at the other end of the ice, it was quite a surprise when it was 2-1 Devils only 3 minutes into the game. Two Islander turnovers quickly ended up in the back of the net and then Trent Hunter got the Islanders on the board with a deflection goal. Zach Parise of the Devils picked up his second goal of the game later in the first for a 3-1 Devils lead after one period of play. Now Parise was all alone in front on the first goal because of the turnover, and his second goal came on a 2 on 1 situation, so the defense left DP out to dry on both goals…BUT…Parise just made DP look silly on both goals. He committed way too early on both of them. Elias made it 4-1 Devils in the 2nd on a sharp angle slapshot that found a way past DP. Ricky’s certainly entitled to a bad game ever now and then, but he picked a poor time to do it.
Hilbert picked up his 4th of the year in the second, and Sillinger scored with just 20 seconds left during a 6-on-4 powerplay with DP pulled. The Isles outshot the Devils 43-26 but Marty outplaying DP was the difference.
It was an interesting night at “The Swamp” with an announced crowd of 12,500+, a decent size for a Devils crowd. As we walked up to our seats I thought the interior was pretty dimly lit until they turned on the main lights on the ice. It’s also kind of cold up there as there seems to be a breeze, did someone leave a door open on the roof? The Devils fans that are there support their team pretty well, and we were more than happy to join along with them for several “Rangers Suck” chants. A few idiots wandered in wearing Rangers jerseys and were heckled by fans of both teams. During a stoppage in play to replace a broken piece of glass, they played the “long” version of the Chicken Dance. Since Wang has outlawed it at the Coliseum, it seems the Devils were more than happy to adopt it. We spotted “Goldie” the Islanders fan with the shiny gold wig from the Coliseum down by the glass dancing up a storm as all fans joined in the chorus of “The Rangers Suck!”. Goldie’s seats were practically the same seats he has at the Coliseum, what does that guy do for a living? Who does he know?
Bring back the #%!* Chicken Dance Wang!
Isles head to Carolina to play the Hurricanes tomorrow night. They’ve got to end this skid ASAP.
Jay Says
They gotta do something to wake up the team. Maybe scratch a couple players and bring up Nilsson, Tamby, etc. As for the Chicken Dance, I heard that too last night and thought about emailing the Islanders about it. I did and here was the Response I got:
We felt it was a little too “little brother symdrom-ish” of our organization to play the Chicken dance song. That, and we received too many complaints from Islanders fans that their kids were coming home from games singing the word ‘suck” along with the Chicken Dance.
Kerry Cornils
New York Islanders
Jan 5th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Patrick Says
Pittsburgh is ahead of us in the standings, the Devils are 9 points ahead of us, the Rangers are no longer the laughing stock in New York! Come on Nolan! Get these guys going!
Jan 6th, 2007 at 11:27 am
murph Says
The death of the Chicken Dance is all Wang’s doing. He doesn’t think it’s family-friendly. F#%@ him.
Jan 6th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Jay Says
The person who doesn’t think the Chicken Dance is ‘friendly’ also wanted to bring over sumo wrestlers to play goalie. So yea, that about says enough by itself.
Jan 6th, 2007 at 8:00 pm