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It’s a bit of a lighter week for the 2-3 Islanders, with another day before they host the (still winless) Sharks on Tuesday, the (shockingly Atlantic leading) Red Wings on Thursday, then visit Philadelphia on Saturday.
With two wins at the end of last week, they avoided falling into a nightmare start, but a variety of “this could be their undoing” factors are still very much in play: special teams, overall team defense, reliance on great goaltending-or-else, etc.
Islanders News
- Takeaways from the Isles’ late win in Ottawa: We didn’t even talk about Adam Boqvist (and not much to say there) but he made his debut for Alex Romanov. [Isles]
- Picking up his first win was a relief for Ilya Sorokin. [Newsday]
- The Skinny: “With points in his first five games, Matthew Schaefer is… one game shy of Marek Zidlicky’s defense record (6 with Nashville in 2003-04) to start a career; 5 others, including Cale Makar and Larry Murphy, had five-game streaks.” [Isles]
- The Isles would like to clean up some things and maybe not bleed chances against. [Post]
Elsewhere
Sunday’s scores included the Red Wings
beating the Oilers for their fifth win in a row.
- Anthony Stolarz would like his teammates to stop letting him get run, maybe run the other guy for a change. [Sportsnet]
- In his return to Chicago with the Ducks, Joel Quenneville talks about getting back behind the bench. [NHL | TSN]
- Brad Marchand talks about going back to Boston. [NHL]
- The notoriously sporting sportsman Marchand got fined for unsportsmanlike conduct, taking Rasmus Dahlin’s helmet with him to the penalty box and ripping the straps off. [Sportsnet]
- The Senators have offered Shane Pinto eight years. [Sportsnet]
- The kid who didn’t win the Calder becomes just the fourth player to score 500 points for two different franchises. [NHL]
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