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FIGHT NIGHT: NEW YORK ISLANDERS v PITTSBURGH PENGUINS (Feb 11, 2011)
Not much in the way of Valentine’s Day love in this marathon, fight-filled, revenge-fuelled blow-out. My lovely New York Islanders pummeled the Pittsburgh Penguins on the scoreboard (9-3) and in the alley, although the subsequent $100,000 league-imposed fine takes some of the joy out of the event.
Still, it’s always fun to hear the Penguins’ notoriously awful T.V. commentary in full flower, because as crummy as the Islanders’ actions were, the Penguins currently employ the league’s most-hated player, the concussion-dealing miscreant Matt Cooke. He wasn’t playing this one…because he’s presently suspended. For a head shot. So there’s a little dose of hypocrisy here.
A little bit of context: both teams were playing with injury-depleted rosters (the Isles have lost more “man games” to injury than any team this year; the Penguins are without their two best players), and the Isles had score-settling on mind, given that nine days earlier they’d lost two more players to fights or legally questionable hits against these same Penguins.
Anyway…do you have 17 minutes? If you’re an avowed Islanders lover/Penguins hater as I am, and you have the stomach for 1970’s-styled brawls, you may enjoy this.
It’s the most penalty-filled game in the Islanders’ 38-year history, by the way.
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50-IN-50: MIKE BOSSY FINDS HIS MARK (JANAURY 24, 1981)
Needing two goals in the final period after slumping at the most inopportune time, Mike Bossy followed through on his bold promise to join Maurice “Rocket” Richard as the only players in National Hockey League history to score 50 goals in the first 50 games of the season.
The 49th came off a backhand with four minutes left. And the 50th? A one-timer off a cross-ice Bryan Trottier feed, punched in between Quebec Nordiques goaltender Ron Grahame’s legs, with 89 seconds left.
And it happened 30 years ago today.
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John Tavares. Your Long Island saviour.
First game, first goal. Against the defending champions, no less.
Now go give us another 499.
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w00t! The 2009 NHL entry draft’s taking place in Montreal on June 26th. A perfect birthday gift for me, then.
