Isles Sink Sens in First Shootout of 2007
November 29th, 2007 by murph
The Ottawa Senators have beaten the Islanders in 8 straight games and are loaded with talent - Spezza, Alfredsson, Heatley…and Andrej Meszaros? Meszaros scored two fluky goals last night, one on an awful angle and one from the point that deflected off an Islander player to tie the game with less than two minutes to play. That led to a wild OT with 4-on-3 powerplays for both teams, and even a little 3-on-3 action too (kinky!). Ottawa had a fantastic chance after DP came out of the net to poke the puck away, and the Isles had a Park/Satan 2-on-1 broken up by an Ottawa defender. Sillinger had this to say about DP after the game.
“Oh man, I hate that,” Sillinger said. “He did give us a scare. I was thinking, ‘What the hell is he doing?”‘
Thank you Silly. You’ve just spoken for hundreds of Islanders fans everywhere.
Back to the game, DP and Emery kept the puck out of the net in OT and for the first time this season, the Isles were headed to a shootout. Alfredsson beat DP in the first round while Emery stopped Satan and Vasicek, which left the game on the shoulders of Captain Bill Guerin who came up with the big shootout goal to tie things up. Finally in round 6, Mike Sillinger scored and DP stopped Dean McAmmond for the Islanders 3-2 OT shootout win last night. Big win for the Orange and Blue who historically struggle vs speedy Ottawa.
The boys head to the city tonight to try and continue their dominance of the Rangers this season, looking for their 4th straight win vs the Blueshirts. Good thing there’s no such thing as a “Senators-hangover”…I hope. If you’re in the city, don’t forget about The Boss at the NHL Store today from 4-6pm before the game. I’ll be out watching the game and Thursday Night Football with the boys, so no live blog tonight unless Tommy can update.
Tom Says
I was out having some beers last night and I missed pretty much the entire game because, depending on your cable provider in new york city, you may not get Islander games. It’s just as bad as this whole NFL Network thing. They need to figure out a way to make these games available to everyone. It’s 2007 for crying out loud.
I did get to see the big shootout win. Guerin was huge, DP’s a rock and Sillinger had it all the way. Big win. Need another one tonight.
Nov 29th, 2007 at 1:17 pm