Isles Shutout in Oil Town, Jiggs is Highlight
January 8th, 2008 by Tom
The Oilers put three shots past Rick DiPietro in the span of about 10 minutes last night, cruising to a 4-0 win over the punchless Isles. DP just didn’t have it last night and, as happens too often with this team, there was no one around to pick him up.
Now the Isles face the tough task of playing their second West Coast game in as many days, this time going up against Roberto Luongo and the 23-14 (50 points) Vancouver Canucks. Always tough to play back-to-back games on the road, especially when you’re 3,000 miles from home base. Isles need to bounce back and generate some chances, stay out of the penalty box, and force the action if they want to skate out of Vancouver with a W.
Here’s what Coach Ted Nolan told Newsday after last night’s loss:
“We need a consistent effort from all our guys, not from 70 percent. We need them all.”
Very true. Let’s hope the other 30 percent show up tonight.
fauxrumors Says
1) Looks like it will take at least 42 games for the Isles to score their 100th goal. Not looking bright as they have to face the 1st half MVP(in our opinion) in Roberto Luongo next
2) This team simply can NOT win unless they get effort from everyone AND DiPietro plays at his best. They have ZERO margin for error!
Jan 8th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
isle have a beer Says
Brutal stretch of road games coming up now. Yikes…
Jan 8th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
fauxrumors Says
1) These are the stretches that seperate the playoff contenders from pretenders. The good news for the Isles is most of the other teams in the East aren’t playing all that well either
Jan 8th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
murph Says
so much for staying out of the box last night.
Jan 9th, 2008 at 5:26 pm