Rangers 4 Islanders 2
November 30th, 2007 by murph
Well it had to happen sooner or later, you didn’t really expect the Isles to sweep all 8 games from the Rangers this season - did you? An outplayed and outhustled Islanders team fell 4-2 to the Rangers last night at the Garden. The Isles lack of offense continues to be an issue with two or fewer goals in 11 straight games now. One of last night’s Islanders goals was actually put in the net by a Ranger player for us, thanks!
The Isles powerplay which had gotten off to a fast start has disappeared - 0/4 in the first period and 1/5 in the game. While the Rangers were 2/5 with the man advantage and outshot the Isles 31-24. The Ranger$ $tar$ decided to showed up for this game with goals from Drury, Gomez, and Jagr.
With Sean “The Pest” Avery out, Ryan Hollweg took up the role of Rangers A-Hole last night threatening to rip the stitches out of Radek Martinek’s face.
Martinek, a non-threatening defenseman, received 15 stitches Wednesday night after being cut by a skate blade during the Islanders’ 3-2 shootout win over Ottawa.
“Give Martinek credit, playing after an injury like that,” Islanders coach Ted Nolan said. “In this game, you have to have some respect. When a guy like Hollweg tries to scratch an open cut on someone’s face, that’s not professional. It’s not a classy thing to do.”
“He said he is going to take my stitches out. I think that was stupid,” said Martinek, a 5-foot-11, 200-pound defenseman.
Martinek added that no damage was done, but said he had never seen a player act in such a way.
“No, no. Never, never,” he said. “I think he could show a little bit of respect, but he didn’t. I cannot respect him.”
Stay classy NYR, stay classy. After 4 games in the first two months of the season, these teams won’t see each other again until March.
Isles head down to Atlanta Saturday night. I’ll be in VT snowboarding, hopefully Tommy can hook you guys up with a recap Sunday morning. Let it snow!!
Hockey1919 Says
How can Hilbert have the puck on his stick, shove his stick into an empty net and still not score a goal? It is nearly a physical impossibility for that to happen and yet the snake bites again. They Isles looked tired and not mentally acute after 3 games in four nights. Would be nice to have one of those days from that week long rest tossed in here, but it not the end of the world. Their decision making a couple of times on the penalty kill allowed the Averyless to keep the puck in and wore the D out even more.
Nov 30th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Jay Says
The Isles are home this saturday against atlanta
Nov 30th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
murph Says
Whoops! Nice catch Jay. I thought the Isles were road tripping this past weekend like I was
Dec 3rd, 2007 at 11:44 am
Jay Says
Haha, it’s all good. I wish they were on the road this weekend so I didn’t have to see that horrible display in person!
Dec 3rd, 2007 at 9:19 pm