So 48 hours after SportsCenter featured Islander preseason highlights, the New Jersey Devils won a shootout, defeating the Isles 2-1. Travis Zajac scored in the fifth round of the shootout. The Devils of course have lost 17 straight regular season shutouts (including all 13 last year).
Mike Camelleri scored a power play goal just 3:16 into play to give New Jersey the lead. Kael Mouillierat tied it early in the third for the Isles, who held New Jersey to only three shots in a 34 minute span beginning at the start of the second period, including none in the first 17 minutes of the second period..
The scoring:
| 1ST PERIOD | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03:16 | NJD | PPG - Mike Cammalleri (1) Slapshot - ASST: Damien Brunner (1), Travis Zajac (1) | 1 - 0 NJD | |
| 2ND PERIOD | ||||
| NONE | ||||
| 3RD PERIOD | ||||
| 04:51 | NYI | Kael Mouillierat (1) Tip-in - ASST: Scott Mayfield (1), Eric Boulton (1) | 1 - 1 Tie | |
| OT PERIOD | ||||
| NONE | ||||
| SHOOTOUT | ||||
| 00:00 | NJD | Travis Zajac (1) Wrist shot - ASST: NONE | 1 - 1 Tie | |
| SHOOTOUT | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROUND | NEW YORK ISLANDERS | NEW JERSEY DEVILS | |||||
| 1 | Colin McDonald | F | NG | Mike Cammalleri | NG | ||
| 2 | Frans Nielsen | NG | Adam Henrique | NG | |||
| 3 | Ryan Strome | NG | Ryane Clowe | NG | |||
| 4 | Mikhail Grabovski | NG | Travis Zajac | Goal | |||
(This is how the official scoresheet reported the shootout. Actually, Damien Brunner and Josh Bailey each were stopped in between the Strome and Clowe attempts.)
The Skinny:
The Devils outshot the Isles 22-21.... Jaroslav Halak made 21 saves for the Isles; Cory Schnieder finished with 20 saves for New Jersey...The Isles did well in the circle, winning 29 of 52, and outhit the Devils 16-10.
The complete Skinny will return on Opening Night.
The Isles have one final pre-season game and it will be played on Friday in Bridgeport against the Boston Bruins. Islanders TV will have the webcast; WRHU (88.7) will have the radio broadcast. Face-off at Webster Bank Arena is at 7:30pm.
Forever1940 is the nom de plume of Eric Hornick, statistician on Islander home telecasts since January 21, 1982. Visit my blog: NYISkinny.com and follow me on Twitter @ehornick
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