Islander rookie showing some skills. This isn’t his first highlight reel goal.
Islanders just drafted him 5th overall.
Henrik will get a laugh at this one when he watches the highlight reels. A little heavy on the theatrics?
This reminds me of the greatest goalie hit of all time by Billy Smith.
I love the way the Islanders’ color guy compares this “staged” fight to the WWE.
Some real courageous and original commentary – comparing two grown ups duking it out for real to oversized, steroid-jacked gymnasts performing masochistic and sadistic acts on each other while wearing brightly colored spandex. It’s called homo-eroticism folks. Yes WWE fans, you’re secretly exploring; sorry to be the bearer of bad news on that one.
The sun is shining brightly on us old school hockey fans. They had figured it was going to be a rough game, but nobody expected just how rough it was going to get. This is the first game that these two teams played against each other since Brent Johnson busted up Rick DiPietro’s face.
This video does a stellar job of capturing it all.
Some interesting notes from the game:
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Almost four years since we had a goalie fight and then the Islanders almost have TWO in the same week?
I love how at the beginning of the clip, you briefly see the Islander coach’s reaction (No, not another one of my goalies). This coming just days after Rick DiPietro dropped the mitts and got his face busted up by Brent Johnson – he’ll be out 4 to 6 weeks.
If you are wondering why Lehner did this, it’s because Poulin came floating way out of his crease during a scuffle in the Ottawa zone. That is basically goalie talk for “Watch out, or I’ll come down there and kick your ass”.
It’s a beautiful day in the NHL.
After a weekend of uncomfortable interviews and conjured, make belief rivalries, those who call themselves the hard core have been blessed with a rare treat – an old fashioned goalie fight. The first in four years.
This is such a rare event, that even the officiating staff were caught off guard; watch the referee shit himself when he realizes that Brent Johnson has departed his crease.
Unfortunately/fortunately, it was a one punch knock out. I love the slow mo on this one; reminds me of those Brad Pitt/Snatch scenes.
Thanks for coming out Rick.
Note that this isn’t Dipietro’s first rodeo. I’ve attached a couple of videos for your viewing pleasure.
I love this story.
Evgeni Nabokov, after deciding to return to the NHL and signing a contract with the Detroit Red Wings, was claimed off waivers by the New York Islanders this week (players who play professional hockey elsewhere and decide to sign with an NHL team have to clear waivers on the way through; keeps GM’s honest).
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It’s no secret that Nabokov was none to happy about it, and as per Yahoo, apparently he hung up on Islander’s GM, Garth Snow, when he called on Thursday and introduced himself.
Nabokov’s agent called back immediately and tried to cover it up as per Snow,
“Donnie said, ‘He didn’t know it was you. He was on two or three different phones, and people from the media were calling him.’
Nabokov himself however, didn’t bother to call Snow back until Sunday; the old three day rule.
The quotes from this are awesome (as per ESPN).
This video is even funnier when it’s not blurred out by your favorite sports network.
For those of you who don’t understand the gesture, Wisniewksi isn’t telling Avery that he wants to fellate him; he is saying that Avery likes to fellate.
That is my new favorite word by the way. I don’t care if it actually isn’t a word.
Sounds like a good name for a band.
Good chance that Canadiens forward Mike Cammalleri may be sitting out a couple for this little slash.
Acting Islanders coach Dean Chynoweth wasn’t too fond of the play,
“It was a gutless play by Cammalleri,” “To stick someone in the face and two-hand him like that…be a man. Drop the stick. Drop the gloves.”
There haven’t been a ton of decent fights as of late, but this is definitely a heavy weight tilt.
A couple of bad looking dudes tossing knuckles. Carkner gets cut.
Trevor Gillies has been on a mission trying to fight everything he can get his hands on.
After scoring only 3 points in his last 16 games, first overall pick John Tavares of the New York Islanders almost doubled that last night against the Vancouver Canucks, scoring 2 goals and 3 assists and hitting a post.
Tavares nets five points.
Does this put him back into the Calder race?
Well, not quite. He would need to have a crazy run to catch Matt Duchene of the Colorado Avalanche in rookie scoring. Duchene was 3rd overall in the same draft as Tavares in 2009.
For a look at the Rookie leader board:
Sorry folks, I know that we are all supposed to be upset here because Dupuis got knocked out, but I have a hard time vilifying Andy Sutton for this.
I really don’t care if there was blood.
I’m tired of players exposing themselves along the boards. Pascal Dupuis chose to do this, and now we all jump on the bandwagon to say how dirty Andy Sutton is?
I’m not buying it anymore.
Dupuis is the smaller man here, and he was trying to pull off a big man move.
If Joe Thornton wants to use the strategy, then he can do it at his own risk. As for Dupuis, maybe he should protect himself instead of trying to pretend that he can hold off an NHL defenseman like this.
Jovanovski pulls the Chris Pronger.
Two games.
Rob Schremp picks it out of the air and baseball’s it into the net.
The referee spoils it a bit for him by waiving it off, but they went upstairs and it was all good.
Ryan MacIntyre
ryan@hockeyjackass.com
Folks, THIS is the difference between hockey and soccer.
I'll take a double double and a couple of napkins.
This morning in Philadelphia while crossing the road to grab a coffee, Islanders defenseman Brendan Witt was hit by a GMC Yukon truck that was taking an illegal turn.
What did Witt do?
He got up, dropped a couple of F-bombs, and then went and got his coffee.
In what is purely hockey GOLD, these are what his quotes were afterwards:
“I’ve got to go play some hockey. I’m a hockey player. I’m okay. No big deal.”
This is like Christmas for me.
Ryan MacIntyre
ryno@hockeyjackass.com
