“The Skinny”
By
Eric Hornick
Game 69
Rangers 4, Isles 3 (OT)
Marian
Gaborik scored a power play goal with less than six seconds remaining in
overtime as the Rangers won a game they never led, defeating the Islanders 4-3
before a sellout crowd of 18,200 at Madison Square Garden. The loss breaks a 5-game Islander
overtime/shootout winning streak against the Rangers.
The Scoring:
1st Period
2nd Period
3rd Period
OT
Period
The Skinny: Tavares briefly tied Moulson for
the club lead in goals, before Moulson regained it later in the game. Tavares and Moulson have combined to open the
scoring 17 times this season, tops of any two teammates in the NHL. The Isles have scored first a total of 35
times. MacDonald tied Mark Streit for
the club lead in defensemen goals (5).
Brad Richards now has 241 career goals, more than any forward in NHL
history who has not scored a hat trick in his career; Richards passed former
Islander Mike Sillinger (240). The
Rangers improve to 10-7 in extra time (7-2 in games decided by an overtime
goal) while the Isles are 8-10 (3-7 in games decided by an overtime goal).
Gaborik now has three overtime goals this season; Steven Stamkos (4) is the
only other NHL player with at least three. The Rangers have allowed at least
three goals in six straight games for the first time since early in the 2006-07
season.
Home and Road
The
Islanders are 28-31-10 overall and are 13-16-5 on the road.
The Rangers
are 43-18-7 overall and 23-7-2 at home.
The win stops a three-game Ranger losing streak.
In the Nets
Evgeni
Nabokov stopped 32 shots. He is 16-17-2
on the season. Nabokov played all six
games against the Rangers, going 2-3-1.
This was his 600th NHL game (309-195-68 with 28 no
decisions).
Henrik Lundqvist made just 16 saves for New Jersey as
he improves to 32-14-5 on the campaign.
Lundqvist wins for the first time in his career when allowing three
goals or more while facing 20 shots or less (1-20-1). He also recorded his 10th
career assist, and first of the season.
Leaning on #91
John Tavares has 66 points (28-38-66) on 155 Islander
goals this season (42.6%). No Islander
since Zigmund Palffy has recorded points on over 40% of the team’s goals in a
complete season. He is four points shy
of becoming the first Islander since Alexei Yashin (75 in 2001-02) to record at
least 70 points in a season.
Don’t Forget PA
With 61
points, Parenteau has points on 39.4% of the Islanders’ goals this season. He has 46 assists – most by any Islander
since Pierre Turgeon had 74 and Vladimir Malakhov had 47 in the 1993-94 season.
Most
Assists, Islanders, Since 1989-90
·
Pat
Lafontaine 1989-90 51
·
Pierre
Turgeon 1991-92 49
·
Jeff
Norton 1989-90 49
·
Tom
Kurvers 1991-92 47
·
PA
Parenteau 2011-12 46
Last Second Overtime Defeat
This is
the third time in Islander history that they have allowed a goal in the final
ten seconds of overtime:
·
11/17/95
Peter Douris (at Anaheim) 2-1 (4:59)
·
3/28/98
Sylvain Cote (at Toronto) 4-3 (4:56)
·
3/11/12
Marian Gaborik (at New York) 4-3 (4:54)
Can’t Nail it Down
The
Islanders trailed for a total of 85 seconds this weekend but went 0-1-1. The Isles have won only 15 of 23 games
(15-1-7) this season when leading after two periods.
Power Plays
The
Islanders went 1-4 on the power play while the Rangers were 3-6. The Isles are 3-33 in their last 11 games
with the extra man and have killed only 25 of 38 in the same span. It was the first time all season that the
Isles have allowed three power play goals in a game.
They Said It
Travis
Hamonic: “It's very frustrating. I
thought we played a good game, but we couldn't get it done in the end.”
They Tweeted It
@KatieStrangESPN
#NYR #Isles Wouldn't be surprised to see Stu
Bickel and Micheal Haley go at it. Bickel suffered facial fractures when they
fought Dec 26. Asked Haley before game about whether he expects retaliation:
"I'm sure a lot of guys can pick out something I've done to them." (The players fought just 2:14 into the
game.)
The Coach
"Our
special teams were good for a while but we've gotten away from it and we're
taking things for granted."
Leading Ice Men
Travis
Hamonic led the Isles with 26:31; Ryan McDonough led New York with 26:36. Hamonic was in the penalty box when Gaborik
scored the winning goal; he received a misconduct penalty after the goal was
scored.
In the Circle
The
Islanders won 26 draws; the Rangers won 30.
Frans Nielsen won 7 of 14 for the Isles; Brian Boyle won 12 of 19 for
the Rangers.
Heavy Hitters
The
Islanders were out-hit 24-13. With NHL
hit leader Matt Martin sidelined, Josh Bailey and Micheal Haley each had a
team-leading three hits. Martin has a
club record 314 hits (hits have only been recorded since 2005-06) and leads the
NHL in hits by a wide margin. The NHL
record is 356, set by Cal Clutterbuck of Minnesota in 2008-09.
Lots of Blocks
The Isles
were credited with 10 blocks. They lead
the NHL with 1,174. Mark Streit led the
Isles with three blocks.
Goals by Period (Season)
Isles: 54-49-49-3 = 155
Opponents:
61-61-74-7 = 203
Third
period goals include 8 empty net goals for the Islanders and an NHL-leading 13
empty-net goals against the Isles.
All-time Winners
The Islanders
remain 2 games over all-time NHL .500 (1341-1339-4310 in 3,111 games). The Isles have twice this season been one
game below .500. Prior to this season, they had not been below NHL .500 since
they were 177-178-83 prior to their victory on January 16, 1978.
Scoring
The Isles
have scored 89 goals in their 28 wins (3.18 per game) and 67 goals in their
other 41 games (0-31-10; 1.63 per game).
In their 31 regulation losses, the Isles have scored 39 goals (1.26 per
game).
Head of the Class
John
Tavares has 187 career points; he is 39 points ahead of Matt Duchene for most
among 2009 draft picks. No other player
in that draft is anywhere close.
Longest Point Streaks in
NHL, Last 2 Seasons
·
Sidney
Crosby, 25 games (11/5/10-12/28/10)
·
Eric
Staal, 12 games (2/8/12-3/6/12)
·
John Tavares, 12
games (12/29/11-1/21/12)
·
Ilya
Kovalchuk 12 games (2/1/11-2/25/11)
Friends, Friends, Friends
Moulson
has 29 goals this season; John Tavares has earned assists on 19 of them. He has now been on-ice for 53 consecutive
Moulson goals, earning assists on 35 of them, dating back to a Moulson goal on
November 17, 2010 against Tampa.
Three Different Leaders
Matt
Moulson continues to lead the Isles in goals (29); PA Parenteau leads the Isles
in assists (46); John Tavares leads the Isles in points (66).
25-25-25, 30-30-30?
Matt
Moulson is the first Islander since Ziggy Palffy to have at least three
consecutive 25-goal seasons. He is one goal away from a third consecutive
30-goal season; Palffy, from 1995-96 to 1997-98 was also the last Islander to
accomplish that feat. Moulson has 90 goals as an Islander – the most by any
Islander since the lockout. Moulson has opened the scoring ten times this
season and the Isles are 9-1-0 when he does so.
He is the first Islander with at least ten opening goals since Alexei
Yashin had 12 in 2001-02.
20-20-20 x 2
Moulson
and Tavares are the first Islander teammates to record at least twenty goals in
three straight seasons since Mark Parrish and Jason Blake did so in 2002-03,
2003-04, and 2005-06. Tavares, by the
way, is the fifth player to score at least 20 goals for the Islanders in each
of his first three NHL seasons, joining:·
Billy
Harris (first six seasons: 1972-73 through 1977-78),
·
Clark
Gillies (five: 1974-75 through 1978-79),
·
Mike
Bossy (all 10 seasons: 1977-78 through 1986-87).
Ironman
Matt
Moulson, the Isles’ reigning ironman, has played in all 233 games since joining
the team. Moulson’s streak is the longest for an Islander in the Post-Cup era. Billy Harris played in the first 576 games in
Islander history; that figure still stands as the club record.
Three
other forwards: PA Parenteau, Frans Nielsen and John Tavares have also played
in every game this season while Mark Streit is the only Islander defender to do
so. The Isles have not had as many as
four players play in every game since 1986-87.
Longest Consecutive Game
Streaks, Islander History
1.
Billy
Harris 576
2.
Bob
Nystrom 301
3.
Denis
Potvin 262
4.
J.P.
Parise 240
5.
Matt Moulson 233
Missing Men
Mark
Eaton (upper body), Matt Martin (ill), and Casey Cizikas (ill) were scratched
as was Al Montoya (upper body injury). Rick DiPietro is on injured
reserve. The Isles have lost 323
man-games to injury so far this season.
Anders Nilsson served as the back-up.
Career Years
·
Matt
Moulson: 28 assists and 57 points are new career highs. He has 29 goals, two
shy of his career best.
·
PA
Parenteau: 46 assists and 61 points are new career highs. He has 15 goals, five
shy of his career best.
·
John
Tavares is 28-38-66; His 38 assists matches last career-best total, while he is one goal, one
assist and one point shy of career highs, both set last season.
·
Frans
Nielsen has 13 goals, matching a career-high set last year.
·
Kyle
Okposo has 15 goals, four shy of his career-high set in 2009-10.
List Time
Career Wins, Active Goalies
Career Wins
21. Sean
Burke 324
23.
Miikka Kiprusoff 306
Most First Goals of Game (NHL This
Season)
|
1
|
Matt Moulson
|
10
|
|
1
|
Ilya
Kovalchuk
|
10
|
|
3
|
Evander
Kane
|
9
|
|
3
|
Curtis
Glencross
|
9
|
Career Goals as an Islander
|
31
|
Travis
Green
|
92
|
||||||
|
32
|
Matt Moulson
|
90
|
||||||
|
33
|
Butch
Goring
|
87
|
||||||
|
34
|
Tomas
Jonsson
|
84
|
||||||
|
35
|
John Tavares
|
81
|
||||||
|
35
|
Wayne
Merrick
|
81
|
||||||
|
35
|
Dave
Scatchard
|
81
|
||||||
|
38
|
Marty
McInnis
|
79
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
Career Assists as an Islander –
active players
|
||||||||
|
1
|
Mark Streit
|
109
|
||||||
|
2
|
John Tavares
|
107
|
||||||
|
3
|
Frans Nielsen
|
103
|
||||||
|
4
|
Kyle Okposo
|
90
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
|
|||||||
Career Games as an Islander
(skaters)
|
55
|
Gerald
Diduck
|
314
|
||
|
56
|
Mikko
Makela
|
307
|
||
|
57
|
Frans Nielsen
|
306
|
||
|
58
|
Gord
Lane
|
304
|
||
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
||
|
61
|
Gord
Dineen
|
287
|
||
|
62
|
Jeff
Norton
|
282
|
||
|
63
|
Josh
Bailey
|
278
|
||
|
64
|
Steve
Thomas
|
275
|
||
|
65
|
Blake
Comeau
|
261
|
||
|
65
|
Andre
St. Laurent
|
261
|
||
|
67
|
Brad
Lauer
|
259
|
||
|
68
|
Benoit Hogue
|
258
|
||
|
69
|
Kyle
Okposo
|
258
|
||
|
70
|
Pierre Turgeon
|
255
|
||
|
|
|
|
||
|
80
|
Adrian Aucoin
|
235
|
||
|
81
|
Matt Moulson
|
233
|
||
|
82
|
Zdeno Chara
|
231
|
||
|
82
|
Billy MacMillian
|
231
|
||
|
84
|
John Tavares
|
230
|
||
|
85
|
Chris
Campoli
|
228
|
||
|
86
|
Bryan Smolinski
|
227
|
||
|
87
|
Mark Streit
|
225
|
||
|
88
|
Michael
Peca
|
222
|
||
Career Points as an Islander
|
37
|
Butch
Goring
|
195
|
|
38
|
Jeff
Norton
|
188
|
|
39
|
John Tavares
|
187
|
|
40
|
Lorne
Henning
|
184
|
|
|
|
|
|
47
|
Miro
Satan
|
166
|
|
48
|
Matt Moulson
|
159
|
|
49
|
Oleg
Kvasha
|
158
|
|
50
|
Alan
Kerr
|
154
|
|
51
|
Roman
Hamrlik
|
153
|
|
51
|
Frans Nielsen
|
153
|
|
53
|
Kyle Okposo
|
149
|
|
54
|
Michael
Peca
|
142
|
|
|
|
|
Season Series Stats
The Rangers
win season series four games to two (and nine points to 5). The Rangers win all
three Garden games against the Isles for the second straight season but the
Isles stopped a 6-game regulation losing streak at MSG.
From the Geniuses at Elias
A leftover from Saturday’s game vs. New Jersey: The Isles
had three players win at least 70% of their face-offs Saturday: Frans Nielsen
(6-2, 75%), Marty Reasoner (6-2, 75%) and John Tavares 14-6, 70%). It was the first time since October 21, 2009
vs. Carolina that that had happened: Frans Nielsen (8-1, 88.9%), Nate
Thompson (9-2, 81.8%), Josh Bailey (12-4, 75.0%)
Happy Anniversary
32 years
ago tonight (3-11-80): Newly-acquired
Butch Goring made his Islander debut and the Isles defeated Colorado 4-1 at the
Coliseum. The Isles went 8-0-4 over the
remainder of the regular season after Goring’s acquisition.
All-time, the Isles are 8-9-3 on this date.
On The Farm
The Sound
Tigers ran into a team hotter than themselves Sunday, dropping a 6-3 decision
to Norfolk, who has won 15 straight games.
Bridgeport is 32-20-3-5 overall, having earned points in 24 of their
last 27 games. Bridgeport has 72 points,
tied with Connecticut for the division lead. The Sound Tigers also hold a game
in hand. Bridgeport is off until Friday,
when they begin a three road game in three day weekend at Connecticut.
Up Next
TUESDAY,
MARCH 13th WASHINGTON AT ISLANDERS 7:00PM
[MSG+ (Islanders Game Night at 6:30pm), WRHU (88.7FM)]
[MSG+ (Islanders Game Night at 6:30pm), WRHU (88.7FM)]
The
Islanders return home to face Dale Hunter’s Washington Capitals on Tuesday
night at the Coliseum. It will be the
Capitals’ first visit to Long Island since Hunter replaced Bruce Boudreau as
Capitals coach. The Caps are currently 8th
in the East, but trail Florida by just one point for the Southeast Division
lead. The Isles are 2-0-1 vs. Washington this season
Eric Hornick has been the statistician on Islander
home game telecasts since 1982. Information contained in “The Skinny” has been
gathered from various sources. Follow
Eric @ehornick on Twitter.
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