Isles Stun Nabby and Sharks for 4th Straight
February 18th, 2008 by murph
Wild afternoon at the Coliseum as a full house watched the Isles storm back from a 2-0 deficit with three third period goals for the 3-2 victory. Late in the second period, a Radek Martinek shot hit Sharks’ goalie Evgeni Nabokov square in the mask, breaking one of the protective bars and gashing the bridge of Nabokov’s nose. Nabby left for the remainder of the second period, but returned for the third and did not look sharp (or very pretty with that gash and stitches).
Just two minutes into the third period, Sharks’ Captain Joe Thorton made it 2-0 on a backhander over DiPietro’s shoulder. Andy Hilbert got the goal right back for the Islanders by crashing the net as Bill Guerin seemed to harmlessly flip the puck on net. Hilbert got a stick on the rebound and it bounced past Nabby to make it 2-1. 59 seconds later, Mike Comrie undressed Sharks defender Kyle McLaren with the “Comrie-Dangle” and then beat Nabby 5 hole to tie the game at 2-2. Nabby saved his worst for last though, as Freddy Meyer beat him with a simple wrister from the left circle with about 8 minutes left for the game winner.
However all is not well in Islander Country with more possible injuries, this time to Blake Comeau who got boarded from behind in the third and left the game looking woozy. Later Andy Sutton left the game with some kind of leg/hamstring injury.
