Desperate times mean desperate measures.
Less is more.
HNIC
Date---------record---------units
10/11 -------- 2-0 -------- +2.68
10/18---------2-2--------- -0.20
10/25----------1-2-------- -1.10
11/1-----------1-3-------- -1.60
11/8----------1-2-1------- -1.00
11/15----------0-4-------- -4.10
11/22----------3-3-------- +1.75
11/29----------1-2-------- -.90
12/6------------1-2-------- -1.90
12/13-----------2-3------- -1.25
12/20-----------2-3-------- -1.00
12/27-----------4-2-------- +2.31
1/3--------------1-3-------- -2.05
1/10------------0-3--------- -3.20
1/17-------------0-2-------- -2.00
YTD----------21-36-1----- -13.56
(yeah, I suck)
Florida Panthers -.5 +107 (regulation)
Florida comes into this game on a tremendous roll. They are 7-1-3 in their last 11. They cling to the last playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and have the New York Islanders and Toronto Maple Leafs on tap for four of their next five games. This opportunity for easy points and strengthen their playoff position hasn’t been lost to their attention.
Coach Pete Deboer has all but given the reigns to Tomas Vokoun in net. Vokoun has started the last 9 games, allowed but 18 goals over this period, won 6 of them, and only once has lost in regulation.
This is not good news for the Islanders who have struggled with their offense all year. Did you know they have scored 2 goals or less in 16 of their past 26? Yet despite this offensive futility their O/U record for those 26 games is 14-10-2. So it should come as no surprise that their record over this period is 5-18-3. However, and this is a big one, one of those wins was against Florida.
It was New Year’s Eve, Vokoun allowed 3 goals in 19 shots and was pulled quickly for the third time in four games by coach DeBoer. Some thought he was yanked too quickly and even the great Sparky Anderson had nothing on DeBoer’s hook.
"Obviously, some of those goals should have been stopped," Vokoun said. "People make mistakes all the time. This has never happened to me in my career. But I'm not blaming my mistakes on anybody else. When you get pulled three of the last four games, it's going to shake your confidence."
It seems Vokoun has rediscovered his game and his confidence.
Pete DeBoer made it clear he's going to stress how important a win over the lowly Islanders is. He will remind them of the last time they were there.
I’d give you some information on the Islanders but apparently their blog, (islanders pointblank.com), would rather devote his space to Joe Torre’s book and a piece on Steve Schirripa, (Bobby Baccala of “The Sopranos”) and how he dropped the Mets for the Yankees.
Bobby say's, Say yes to Cannolis!
Apparently not even a Islanders blogster wants to talk Islanders at this point.
However undounted, in an effort to serve you, (my loyal readers), I continued to surf the world wide web for useful Islander information.
The Islanders website blog has a investigated piece on Mark Streit’s pre-game stretch, (replete with photos).
(Streit is on the left.)
Newsday’s “On the Islanders Beat” choose to devote his space to reporting how much snow he shoveled on the Island, “before slogging through the slush at LaGuardia Airport to make my flight”.
I have to admit Greg Logan does talk a little about the team and how “coach Gordon’s focus is now on the future.”
Yeah, so wasn’t Mike Milbury’s.
Less is more.
HNIC
Date---------record---------units
10/11 -------- 2-0 -------- +2.68
10/18---------2-2--------- -0.20
10/25----------1-2-------- -1.10
11/1-----------1-3-------- -1.60
11/8----------1-2-1------- -1.00
11/15----------0-4-------- -4.10
11/22----------3-3-------- +1.75
11/29----------1-2-------- -.90
12/6------------1-2-------- -1.90
12/13-----------2-3------- -1.25
12/20-----------2-3-------- -1.00
12/27-----------4-2-------- +2.31
1/3--------------1-3-------- -2.05
1/10------------0-3--------- -3.20
1/17-------------0-2-------- -2.00
YTD----------21-36-1----- -13.56
(yeah, I suck)
Florida Panthers -.5 +107 (regulation)
Florida comes into this game on a tremendous roll. They are 7-1-3 in their last 11. They cling to the last playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and have the New York Islanders and Toronto Maple Leafs on tap for four of their next five games. This opportunity for easy points and strengthen their playoff position hasn’t been lost to their attention.
Coach Pete Deboer has all but given the reigns to Tomas Vokoun in net. Vokoun has started the last 9 games, allowed but 18 goals over this period, won 6 of them, and only once has lost in regulation.
This is not good news for the Islanders who have struggled with their offense all year. Did you know they have scored 2 goals or less in 16 of their past 26? Yet despite this offensive futility their O/U record for those 26 games is 14-10-2. So it should come as no surprise that their record over this period is 5-18-3. However, and this is a big one, one of those wins was against Florida.
It was New Year’s Eve, Vokoun allowed 3 goals in 19 shots and was pulled quickly for the third time in four games by coach DeBoer. Some thought he was yanked too quickly and even the great Sparky Anderson had nothing on DeBoer’s hook.
"Obviously, some of those goals should have been stopped," Vokoun said. "People make mistakes all the time. This has never happened to me in my career. But I'm not blaming my mistakes on anybody else. When you get pulled three of the last four games, it's going to shake your confidence."
It seems Vokoun has rediscovered his game and his confidence.
Pete DeBoer made it clear he's going to stress how important a win over the lowly Islanders is. He will remind them of the last time they were there.
I’d give you some information on the Islanders but apparently their blog, (islanders pointblank.com), would rather devote his space to Joe Torre’s book and a piece on Steve Schirripa, (Bobby Baccala of “The Sopranos”) and how he dropped the Mets for the Yankees.
Bobby say's, Say yes to Cannolis!
Apparently not even a Islanders blogster wants to talk Islanders at this point.
However undounted, in an effort to serve you, (my loyal readers), I continued to surf the world wide web for useful Islander information.
The Islanders website blog has a investigated piece on Mark Streit’s pre-game stretch, (replete with photos).
(Streit is on the left.)
Newsday’s “On the Islanders Beat” choose to devote his space to reporting how much snow he shoveled on the Island, “before slogging through the slush at LaGuardia Airport to make my flight”.
I have to admit Greg Logan does talk a little about the team and how “coach Gordon’s focus is now on the future.”
Yeah, so wasn’t Mike Milbury’s.
