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Wild Weekend! Four Points

December 20, 2014, 11:32 PM ET [2 Comments]
Dee Karl
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The Isles had a four point weekend one what would usually be difficult and disappointing back-to-back games. But this isn’t the Islanders you’re used to. Oh no. These New York Islanders are more like your father’s NY Islanders of old. The ones who never gave up and didn’t fall apart under pressure.

In Detroit, it was Brock Nelson and Anders Lee that scored for the Isles giving them a 2 - 1 win over the Red Wings. Tonight, Anders Lee chipped in a goal in the Isles 3 - 1 win over Tampa Bay. Both teams were on the second night of back-to-backs, but it was the Isles who had little rest getting in from Detroit around 1 am. Although with traffic, we can’t be sure the Bolts didn’t get in around the same time coming from Jersey.

It looked like no one was ever going to score in this one. (After a Bolt goal was waived off at the 4:20 mark of the first for a ‘distinct kicking motion.) The Isles peppered rookie goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy with 47 shots and it looked like he was going to be the game changer. It wasn’t until 9:16 of the third that Brett Connolly broke the ice with a goal on Halak.

Tavares was on the score sheet with his 13th goal of the season to tie the game at one almost 17 minutes into the third. Less than a minute later, Anders Lee scored off a Travis Hamonic shot into the boards. Nelson, who was the first star of the game last night, got knocked around a little tonight and had to be stitched up, and so did JT who took a puck off his ear late in the third, right before Kulemin scored the empty netter that put the game away. But certainly putting those extra points in the bank made those stitches sting less.

Art Staple tweeted out that the Isles put a tribute for Nabokov up on the jumbotron, but he wasn’t in the walkway to see it. It was also noted that Nabby wasn’t around for the media today either. Very unlike him. Had he not played last night in New Jersey, maybe he would have been on the ice!

Along with the stitches in this game, Clutterbuck took an un-penalized stick to the face and Boychuk was slow to the bench after being taken into the boards. On the other side of the ice, Garrison left the game with an undisclosed injury.

Tonight, yet another Islanders record was broken, sort of. As Shannon Hogan was a little tongue tied trying to say that a win tonight would put the Isles at more home wins than they had all (that is ALL) of last season. These Isles like to break every record they can.
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