The New York Islanders played their best defensive game of the season in a 4-0 shutout win over the Vegas Golden Knights. We discuss why this game was so effective and the strong play of Ilya Sorokin, a milestone for Anders Lee and the end of Brock Nelson’s 18-game goal drought.
Plus, we have the latest injury updates on Semyon Varlamov, Isaiah George, Simon Holmstrom, Hudson Fasching, and Mike Reilly and we’ll try to read between the lines on what Lou Lamoriello said at his midseason press conference.
We also preview Saturday’s game in Salt Lake City vs Utah HC.
All this and more on today’s Locked On Islanders Podcast with Gil Martin.
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6 Comments
Yep. 30 better than a. hill was the difference. A who gives a fk w at this point. Isles road to playoffs more difficult this season with none of the playoff teams from last year falling (except b's), nj, caps better, pens trying, and sens, habs, hot wings turning the corner. I heard isles would have to play at like a .750 pace the rest of the season and would have to pick up max 55 pts. in final 41 games to have a shot at playoffs. Not gonna happen. In other words isles will end up in no man's land-not bad enough to get primo lottery pick yet have no chance to move up in lottery being too far away from nhl bottom.
And 29 played like he gave a fk with g, a. Maybe 29 will force louzer's hand to make a move? More likely scenario louzer sits out tdl festivities too scared or too stupid to join festivities just like '23 when 24, 40 should have been moved for assets. Louzer couldn't get a toy whistle for 24 now. Too bad ownership doesn't have the cajones to remove this louzer NOW before tdl disaster strikes.
I am not trying to get my hopes up. I would like to see some rebuilding in a big way. Need picks.
Gil this team is not going to the playoffs, the reason is that there are too many teams in front of them. They would have to go somewhere in the 26-16 record, that is NOT going to happen. No way are they going to play over 500 hockey all of a sudden. They have not played that well so far and cannot see them winning at a pace of over 500. As far as Lou is concerned in my opinion he is lost. The game has passed him by, no clue how to fix the Islanders. I hope 0n January 20th that we retire two 80 plus year old's who do not know what day it is..
I don’t care about devalues, I want honesty. I want him to admit his decisions were wrong.
Fell asleep and I’m in shock 4-0 islanders lol, had to be a good game for Sorokin thanks Gil 👍🏼
Absolutely Islanders best defensive effort of the year. As a team they were solid in their zone in front of Sorokin. Individually 28 was a beast and 8 was night and day as far as making right decisions in the defensive end. Overall I'm happy for the troops although I'm not holding my breath for them to make the playoffs, nor do I think it's beneficial for the long term success of the team to do so. Let's rebuild around the nucleus of the club, by subtracting , developing what we have, and adding to the core. Last thought besides the goal scorers, a few individuals stood out on offense 13, and 7 were very active and made excellent decisions with the puck, and for the star of the game I'm going with 28