Great, hard working win. Bardreau is perfect for this team; he’s looking to hit guys when we have the puck in the offensive zone.
Hottest team in the NHL , lets keep it going guys , make it 9 in a row tomorrow---ps I wake up early and I am shuffling off to Buffalo in the a.m and will be at the game tomorrow night. I get the extra hour sleep and head back Sunday to watch some football and listen to Gase tell us again what a great week of practice they had.
1-0 win over the Sabres. 9 game winning streak. Make it 10 on Tuesday vs the Sens. This team is on fire. LGI
@CBG got to see a good one, and with the team in their home blues it could have been in Brooklyn or Uniondale. And I will never get used to home blues - home uniforms are supposed to be white!
liked the effort from our defense and our goalie saw everything last night,,,,,,but the offense was invisible ---I will take the win and run but man that was a flukey goal
The plan is to make a fire in the fire place tonight and watch the hockey game and keep an eye on local election results ! Lets win # 10
This defense is outright impressive. They aren’t giving up clean shots, save for the giveaway that led to the short handed goal. Wi-Fi better work on my flight Thursday so I can watch the game against the Pens.
Cole Bardreau is a nice story. After 226 games in the minors he finally makes it to The Show, and becomes the 7th player in NHL history to have his first career goal be on a penalty shot. I'm still amazed at how well the team is playing, but I'll take it. This is the second-longest winning streak in team history, and I vividly remember the longest streak. It was 15 games in 1981-1982, when the Islanders were by far the best team in hockey, and it broke the NHL record of 14 straight wins that had been set 52 years earlier. Those were the days before overtime, so a tie meant that a winning streak was over. The Isles played the Colorado Rockies at the Coliseum (as a season ticket holder you know I was there), and former Isle Chico Resch was in net for the Rockies. The Isles totally dominated the game, but Resch stood on his head and the score was tied 2-2 with less than a minute left with a faceoff in their own zone. Bryan Trottier won it back to Mike McEwen, who returned it to Trottier. Up the ice he went, criss-crossing with John Tonelli at the blue line. Trots dropped the puck for JT, who drilled it through Resch's five-hole for the win. The place went absolutely bonkers. That was JT's breakthrough season with 35 goals, and was also Trottier's only 50-goal season. The Isles lost the next game, and then went on a 7-0-2 streak afterwards, for a pretty impressive 22-1-2 streak. They swept the Nordiques in the Conference Finals and swept the Canucks in the Finals a couple of months later for their third straight Cup. They remain the only team to ever win 15 straight games in regulation (the Penguins 17-game streak in 1993 and the Blue Jackets 16-game streak in 2016-2017 both included overtimes and/or shootouts).
Pitt is up next on Thursday. The Isles better bring the "A" game if they want 11. Pitt probably circled this one on the calendar when the schedule came out. You know they will want a little payback for that 4 game sweep we gave them in the playoffs.
