Eight Goals? Seriously?
March 12th, 2008 by Tom
Give me a “W”. Give me a “T”. Give me an “F”. And give me a giant “?”. What’s that spell?
The Islanders had one of the biggest WTF? nights of the season yesterday when the Lightning steamrolled them 8-4 in Tampa. DP’s line for the night? 36 saves on 44 shots. The team’s performance was uglier than Eliot Spitzer’s chances as husband of the year.
Coach Ted was none too pleased with the $67 Million Dollar Man after the game.
“We ask him over and over again not to play the puck as much,” Nolan told Newsday. “He’s one of the best puck-handlers in the league, but you just can’t overhandle it. When you overhandle it, you get yourself in trouble a little bit.”
“The only thing you can do is keep going through it over and over again. You can’t do that. You’ve got to let our defense handle it a little bit more. He just wants to play it. What can you do?”
The Coliseum Heroes are eight points out of a playoff spot with just 11 games to go. It’s over man. The dishes are done. The music’s dead. All that’s left is to turn down the lights.
fauxrumors Says
1) Could one not have seen this one coming from a mile away? The way things went when Dubie was selected to play instead against the rangers last week. You knew then that things were NOT hunky-dory in Islander-land
2) Nolan may be feuding a bit with Snow, and now he is also on less than endearing terms with the ‘goalie for life’
3) What may have been unthinkable a few months ago, is now possible; Noaln not returning next season.
Mar 13th, 2008 at 8:36 am