The Brooklyn Nets’ big three quieted an arrogant and hostile Boston crowd on Sunday night, taking game four of their best of seven tilt against the Boston Celtics and now holding a 3-1 series lead. Combining for 104 points, “The Big Three” weren’t going to let anything stop them from being brilliant in game four. […]
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David Pastrnak’s game one hat trick didn’t do the New York Islanders any favors on Saturday night. After a hard-fought tilt with the Pittsburgh Penguins, New York’s next opponent, the Boston Bruins, spent many days getting rested and ready for game one at a packed TD Garden. Both teams exchanged power-play goals in the first
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The Penguin has been defeated. Let’s just say that Anthony Beauvillier, Brock Nelson, and Josh Bailey are owed an enormous debt of gratitude for their game six performance against the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Wednesday night. Despite scoring on their first shot, Tristan Jarry and the Pens were no match for
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What Ilya Sorokin has stepped in and done for the New York Islanders is remarkable. Being brutally outplayed by the Pittsburgh Penguins in game five of the best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series, the Isles needed a guy that would step up. Thankfully for them, in all three games, he has played in this series, Sorokin
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With their Stanley Cup hopes on the line and a screaming Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum crowd – the New York Islanders delivered. Down 2-1 in the series headed into Saturday’s game four, the Isles knew they needed a decisive victory and would do whatever it took to get exactly that. Saturday’s matinee showed me, you,
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Game three between the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins featured nine goals, a raucous Nassau Coliseum crowd, and a whole lot of rough stuff. In their first home playoff game of the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the boys in blue and orange looked to go up 2-1 and put Sidney Crosby and the Penguins
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Things couldn’t have started any worse for Semyon Varlamov and the New York Islanders on Tuesday night in Pittsburgh. After a questionable decision by Isles head coach Barry Trotz to start Varlamov over young goaltender Ilya Sorokin, who won game one for New York, it was clear from early on that Varlamov, and the boys
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The New York Islanders’ quest for their fifth Stanley Cup began on Sunday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After a shaky final month of their regular season and the loss of their captain Anders Lee, many questions loomed about how this group would perform come playoff time. The boys in blue and orange dealt with even more
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Gerrit Cole was nothing short of sensational in a narrow New York Yankees victory on Wednesday night in Tampa Bay. Neither team struck until the top of the seventh, where the Yanks drew the first and only blood. Cole continued to toss perfect innings while Aroldis Chapman finished the job. New York defeated the Rays
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An up-and-down regular season for the New York Islanders came to a close on Monday night in Boston. For the Isles, recently, things haven’t been going as well as they had been against the B’s. With regular-season losses in their most recent meetings with Boston on April 15th and 16th, the blue and orange combined
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