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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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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A loss to the 2021 Buffalo Sabres is embarrassing enough, right? Well, apparently not. How about two? On the second night of a back-to-back upstate, the New York Islanders outplayed a hapless Sabres team in nearly every category yet somehow failed to win the scoreboard. Buffalo drew first blood, scoring 15:59 into the first period.
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After two monumental wins against their rival, the New York Islanders are back to their previous form after another subpar effort in Buffalo on Monday night. With a playoff spot clinched, another abysmal effort was not expected after the Isles seemingly were getting hot at the right time. The boys in blue and orange started
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At least one New York Islanders player showed up to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday night. That player was goaltender Ilya Sorokin. The rest of the team? Nowhere to be found. The frustration that the Islanders’ recent play has caused is beyond embarrassing. In fact, this team looks to be either be checked out or showing
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The New York Islanders need to turn it around, and they need to do it soon. Saturday night at the Nassau Coliseum was nothing short of a lazy and pathetic effort from the Isles, which doesn’t happen too often. The Washington Capitals controlled the game from puck drop, scoring the first two goals of the
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It’s hard to imagine a tighter and more defensive game than the New York Islanders vs. Washington Capitals one on Thursday night at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. In the first period, the Isles completely outplayed the Caps, outshooting them 15-4. But like he did all night, Capitals goaltender Ilya Samsonov stood on his head
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Perhaps the biggest game of the highly anticipated eight-game 2021 rivalry between the New York Islanders and New York Rangers took place on Tuesday at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Boy, Barry Trotz’s Isles didn’t disappoint. The first period was a back and forth one. Each team saw some power-play time, and scoring was opened
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