The New York Islanders were mathematically
eliminated from any remaining meteor-strikes-several-rivals chance of making the
playoffs in a 3-0 loss to the Florida Panthers in Brooklyn Monday night.That was
no surprise, but I guess passes for your “news” from the night.Nothing else of
interest happened. Florida’s win keeps them well in the wild card chase behind
New Jersey, as they continue a 20-6-1 run since the All-Star Break. I’m not
going to look up the Isles record in that same time because you know and I know
that it is terrible
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the score still 0-0 the Islanders had the first power play of the game, and it
looked alright, with them again finding ways to feature Ryan Pulock’s shot to
open up good looks. They had a couple such good lucks, but no luck and no
conversion.The Islanders then gave up the first goal of the game, a seeing-eye
point wrister by Keith Yandle, and took the next five consecutive penalties four
from very unlikely sources to keep them on the penalty kill for half the middle
section of the game and ease Florida toward comfortable victory.Anthony
Beauvillier , Mathew Barzal and John Tavares each took turns following Ross
Johnston to the penalty box
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The Panthers made it 2-0 on their second power play, with Barzal in the box for
four minutes after drawing blood on a high stick. It came on the rush, a really
nice cross slot feed from Jamie McGinn to Nick Bjugstad, who reacted quickly to
beat Christopher Gibson.Florida added a third goal late in the period to reach
the second intermission leading 3-0 and outshooting the Isles 35-21.Then the
teams came out for the third period as mandated by league bylaws.Micheal Haley
took a clumsy tripping penalty while defending Chris Wagner. That gave the Isles
a final-minute chance to spoil James Reimer’s 31-save shutout bid, with Gibson
pulled for a sixth attacker.But you knew how that would go, didn’t you?buys
tickets to draft party Not That I Particularly Care March 27, 2018Sounds like
the boys put forth a hell of an effort tonight. Carey March 27, 2018i wish it
was 1971 so the new york islanders would not exist Michael Willhoft March 25,
2018dear NCAA please vacate the new york islanders historic and monumental 2016
first-round series win over the florida panthers Michael Leboff March 27,
2018They Said ItIn the post-game presser broadcast on MSG, Brian Compton of NHL
asked how tough it is to fathom this team isn’t a playoff team despite the top
two lines and Ryan Pulock’s emergence. Not that you can say too much of
coherence immediately following a game, but Doug Weight’s answer was long
and...lost sounding“Yeah it’s tough. It’s tough for everyone. It’s tough for us,
not good enough, tough for the fans, tough for everybody involved. All we can
say is we gotta be better and we’re gonna be better soon. And I believe it. We
all gotta be better
Denis Potvin
Jersey. We gotta find...find a way to make our team better here, quickly. I
think we have the ingredients and we have the drive, we’re gonna work at it. You
can’t ignore it. But we have a good team and a good group, we’ll figure some
things out, but we just gotta keep working right now, and not look at the big
picture. Just look at tomorrow night. Like I said, 3-0 game, it’s not good
enough, but we battled, we played hard, we had some great opportunities and we
came up short.”So there.Up NextWe are not put out of our misery just yet. Games
must continue, and soon, as the Isles visit fellow playoff outsiders in the
Ottawa Senators Tuesday night.