Bruins look awful. Did they spend the entire time off in the bubble bar? Sloppy ass passing and sluggish play.
The Isles look pretty good so far. Won the first game, came back from a 3-0 deficit in the second game (lost in OT), and came back from a 1-0 deficit and dominated the last two periods last night.
We’re having some fun tonight with Stars/Avalanche. It looked like the Stars were gonna run way with it when I first tuned in, but now it definitely looks like a game. And, wow, the Avalanche woke up quick
Oh yeah, the ending was tighter than I would have preferred, but it was a hell of a game.
OK, I know no one actually cares about the Islanders, but they’re a victory away from getting to the Conference Finals for the first time in 26 years!
(I’m not complaining about anyone here – they don’t even show up in the NY Times sports coverage)
Don’t worry - at least one lurker is excited.
Excellent! Go Isles!
Did the Islanders get coverage during the 80s and their dominance? Or was it more, ‘The Rangers fired their skate sharpener oh and the Islanders won the Cup.’
I didn’t really read the newspapers back then. I was a high school idiot.
Plus, we got the Daily News, so they probably did and do a much better job covering the Isles than, for example, the NYT.
Big time. The Islanders were THE team. No one gave a shit about the Rangers, they were an afterthought.
Although it is damn sad how quickly Bossy dropped off the radar, one of the top offensive talents of the last 50 years, but how many 25 year old fans even know the name?
I think Gretzky just stole his thunder. Bossy – 50 goals in 50 games!!! First time since, what, the 1950s? A year or two later, Gretzky – 50 goals in 39(!!) games!!!
It’s like if Roger Bannister ran the first four minute mile and then a year or two later, someone ran it in 3:30, just blowing away the record.
Yeah, that’s the thing. Bossy was an amazing talent, but the greatest hockey player who ever lived came along. There were great baseball players at the same time as Babe Ruth and great basketball players at the same time as Michael Jordan, but whaddya gonna do? A remarkable fact about Bossy is that although he scored as many as 147 points in a season and regularly was over 100, he never won a scoring title, even before Gretzky started rewriting the record books, and sometimes didn’t even lead the Islanders; he was surrounded by incredible talent.
Of course, Bossy’s career ended abruptly, too, and he wasn’t really one for the limelight. His back suddenly betrayed him, and he went into business back home in Quebec, not taking any widespread public roles for many years.
That’s amazing! Did Trottier win any of those?
Man, those games must have been high scoring throughout the league.
No real rooting interest in the Eastern conference, I guess it would be cool if the Isles make it through, it’ll be nice for that fan base with the craziness they’ve been through. Seems like it was yesterday that they were moving to the Brooklyn arena for good.
Well, we’ll have to wait another day. Another come-from-behind 4-3 loss in OT.
And that’s perfectly fine with me! I was completely wrong thinking I couldn’t get into hockey in August. And I’d much rather see close games where I don’t have any rooting interest than some of the blowouts.
WHOOOOOOO! FLYERS! The comeback kids are at it again!
If anything I’m the outlier here as the sole Flyers fan (and equally Canucks fan). (ETA - Ah - Cheers, Locrian!) To see them both scramble back from 3-1 deficits to force 7th games is something this fan hasn’t cheered about this much since…a very, very long time.
Kevin Hayes of the Flyers always continues to do smart things with the puck, and a nice homecoming for likely Masterton candidate Oskar Lindblom, returning from months of chemo with some rare bone cancer, playing almost 18 minutes.
Manoman Vancouver’s rookie goalie Thatcher Demko was cool as a cucumber shutting out the Knights 4-0 tonight, and won the previous game, with Markstrom out for undisclosed reasons. The kid’s stopped 90 of 91 shots in his last two starts and has to deal with a back-to-back, playing again tomorrow. In the post game i-view I was pleased to see him basically say ‘but I’m really just focussed on tomorrow’s game’ at the end of every answer. (sometimes the Jimmy Buzzard Way is a perfectly fine way.)
The Flyers goalie really stepped up – I think he made like 50 stops?
I thought the Isles should have subbed their goalie after the second Flyers goal. Greiss has been much more effective against the Flyers than Varlamov has.
It’s a funny thing about hockey – if the Flyers went up 4-0, the Isles would have changed goalies, but since the Isles and Flyers kept it close, they left him in. I don’t understand that – the goalie can be performing badly even if the rest of the team is bailing him out.