November 25 2009 by Rob.

Well before a pretty good crowd of approx. 12,000 on Thanksgiving eve the Isles lost horribly to the Flyers 2-1 in regulation.  Here are some of my notes:

-This was no way the second loudest crowd of the season as implied on another Islander blog which keep in mind I have the utmost respect for the author but I am sorry I think the Ranger game 10-28 blew it away.
-We got progressively worse as the game went on!  We owned the ice pd 1 in pd three it didn’t look like we belonged there.
-The third period we looked like the Bad News Bears of Hockey, we couldn’t handle the puck we couldn’t receive a pass.  We couldn’t do anything so was it really a surprise when they finally got one?
-Will we ever go ahead of the Rangers?  If we had gotten a point today and the Rangers lose we would’ve went ahead of them for the first time in almost two years.  This has been the case for about a week or so now.  But what a surprise we play like crap for a little over 20 minutes and the Rangers win to go a game ahead of us. 
-Nice pass from JT to Hunter to set up the first goal
-Hunter is hot as anything right now keep getting him the puck
-The power-play units were awful!!!!  They didn’t do anything!!!  It seemed like the Flyers were still playing at even strength when we had the man adv because they took it to us!

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Next game: Friday 11/27 @ 2PM VS PIT      

Note: PIT will be sporting their third jerseys for this game

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November 25 2009 by Rob.

Tonight from the Nassau Coliseum our New York Islanders will play host to the Philadelphia Flyers.  I am expecting to see around 500 or so Philly fans present so if your going be ready to hear loud drunk philly fans upon entry.  Also the Flyers are missing many key players topping the list are Danny Briere and Simon Gagne.  Here are tonights expected lines defense included according to Chris Botta:

Moulson-Tavares-Hunter
Bergy-Nielsen-Okposo
Sim(Why????)-Bailey-Tamby
Thompson-Park-Jackman

Sutton-Hillen
Streit-Gervais
Witt-Meyer

Marty Biron will be getting the start against Flyer backup Brian Boucher.  In case you don’t know Philly starter Ray Emery is the guy who in the off-season said that anytime the Flyers play the Isles they will win.  How convenient that he isn’t playing tonight. 

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