Post-Game Talk: #29| New York Islanders @ New Jersey Devils | March 14th | 5:00 PM | F/SOW 3-2

[MattMartin]

Game Preview: Islanders @ Devils
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NEW YORK ISLANDERS (18-6-4) VS NEW JERSEY DEVILS (8-13-3)
5PM | PRUDENTIAL CENTER
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The New York Islanders take on the New Jersey Devils to complete a back to back set at the Prudential Center. This is the second game of the Islanders current three game road trip.

ISLANDERS NOTES:


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• Wahlstrom found the back of the net for the fifth time this season. Through 21 games, the 20-year-old winger has compiled 10 points (5G, 5A).

• Bellows drew back in the lineup for the first time since Feb. 18 and made the most of his opportunity as the 22-year-old winger scored the game-tying and game-winning goal. Bellows skated in Lee's place alongside Mathew Barzal and Jordan Eberle. The rookie forward now has two goals through nine games this season.

• Eberle assisted on both of Bellows' goals. The veteran winger now has 18 points (9G, 9A) through 28 games this season.

• Varlamov made his 20th start of the season and improved his record to 13-4-3. The Islanders netminder earned his second-career assist with the team and the ninth assist of his 13-year NHL career on Wahlstrom's goal. Varlamov has a 2.03 GAA and a .929 SV%.

• The Islanders power play went 0-for-4 against the Devils and has gone 0-for-9 in the past two games against New Jersey's now 30th ranked penalty kill.

• On the flipside, the Islanders' penalty kill was a perfect 1-for-1.

• Trotz confirmed following Saturday's morning skate that he was planning on splitting his netminders for the back-to-back set. If the Islanders head coach sticks with that plan then, Ilya Sorokin is expected to start on Sunday in net. Sorokin last played on Thursday night's 5-3 win over New Jersey where the rookie goalie made 19 saves on 22 shots. Sorokin has won five straight starts.

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DEVILS NOTES:

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• With the home loss, New Jersey dropped it's 10th-straight game on Prudential Center ice. The team hasn't picked up a win at home since Jan. 24 when they defeated the Islanders 2-0.

• Zacha scored his seventh goal of the season for the Devils. With the goal, the centerman overtook sole place of second in goals behind Miles Wood (8). Through 24 games this season, Zacha has totaled a team high 17 points (7G, 10A). Zacha leads the Devils in scoring with 17 points (7G, 10A) through 24 games.

• Janne Kuokkanen scored his fourth goal of the season for the Devils and his second goal in as many games. The 22-year-old winger now has 10 points (4G, 6A) through 19 games.

• Blackwood made his 14th start of the season while his record dropped 5-8-1. The 24-year-old has a 3.13 GAA and a .900 SV%
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Possible Starting Goalies:




Ilya Sorokin

Player	GP	GS	W	L	T	OT	SA	GA	GAA	S	SV%	SO	MIN
Semyon Varlamov	20	20	13	4	0	3	574	41	2.03	533	.929	3	1,213
Ilya Sorokin	8	8	5	2	0	1	191	18	2.25	173	.906	2	481

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Scott Wedgewood

Player	GP	GS	W	L	T	OT	SA	GA	GAA	S	SV%	SO	MIN
Scott Wedgewood	7	7	2	3	0	2	211	19	2.71	192	.910	2	421
Mackenzie Blackwood	14	14	5	8	0	1	428	43	3.12	385	.900	0	826
Aaron Dell	3	2	0	2	0	0	65	8	3.72	57	.877	0	130

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Player Stats:

Islanders
Player	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPP	SHG	SHP	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FO%
Mathew Barzal	28	9	15	24	14	30	1	5	0	0	1	0	73	12.3	46.23
Anders Lee	27	12	7	19	11	12	3	4	0	0	3	0	80	15	49.22
Jordan Eberle	28	9	9	18	8	8	1	3	0	0	1	0	70	12.9	100
Jean-Gabriel Pageau	28	9	8	17	6	6	3	6	2	2	3	0	49	18.4	56.59
Nick Leddy	28	1	16	17	-1	0	1	8	0	0	0	0	39	2.6	0
Brock Nelson	28	11	5	16	-6	6	6	6	0	0	1	0	61	18	51.93
Josh Bailey	28	3	11	14	3	2	0	6	0	0	1	0	47	6.4	50
Noah Dobson	28	3	9	12	6	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	44	6.8	0
Ryan Pulock	28	0	12	12	11	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	54	0	0
Casey Cizikas	28	4	7	11	3	15	0	0	0	0	2	0	34	11.8	54.3
Oliver Wahlstrom	21	5	5	10	5	8	1	5	0	0	1	0	42	11.9	42.86
Matt Martin	28	5	4	9	4	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	40	12.5	11.11
Cal Clutterbuck	26	3	5	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	25	12	0
Scott Mayfield	28	2	6	8	-4	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	41	4.9	0
Adam Pelech	28	2	6	8	12	18	0	0	0	1	0	0	45	4.4	0
Anthony Beauvillier	19	2	4	6	4	6	0	1	0	0	2	0	44	4.5	20
Kieffer Bellows	9	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	13	15.4	0
Andy Greene	28	0	2	2	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	0	0
Michael Dal Colle	16	0	2	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
Leo Komarov	13	0	2	2	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	13	0	33.33
Ross Johnston	6	0	0	0	-2	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	33.33
Austin Czarnik	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	33.33

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Devils
Player	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPP	SHG	SHP	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FO%
Pavel Zacha	24	7	10	17	-7	4	1	4	0	0	2	1	45	15.6	50.47
Jack Hughes	24	6	8	14	-2	0	1	3	0	0	1	0	58	10.3	34.32
Ty Smith	24	2	11	13	0	14	1	3	0	0	0	0	32	6.3	0
Miles Wood	24	8	4	12	-3	15	2	2	0	0	1	0	53	15.1	50
Kyle Palmieri	23	4	7	11	-3	16	0	3	1	1	1	0	57	7	28.57
P.K. Subban	24	2	9	11	-5	18	1	3	0	0	0	0	57	3.5	0
Janne Kuokkanen	19	4	6	10	3	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	20	20	0
Jesper Bratt	18	1	9	10	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	41	2.4	28.57
Travis Zajac	20	2	7	9	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	10.5	52.4
Yegor Sharangovich	22	4	4	8	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	38	10.5	27.78
Damon Severson	24	2	6	8	-4	10	0	1	0	1	0	0	45	4.4	0
Andreas Johnsson	24	3	4	7	3	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	30	10	41.67
Nathan Bastian	24	2	4	6	2	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	31	6.5	40
Michael McLeod	23	3	2	5	-4	16	0	0	0	0	1	0	26	11.5	48.28
Nikita Gusev	16	2	3	5	-10	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	37	5.4	0
Mikhail Maltsev	12	4	0	4	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	20	38.6
Nico Hischier	5	2	1	3	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	10	20	58.44
Will Butcher	8	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	7.7	0
Ryan Murray	16	0	3	3	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	0
Sami Vatanen	14	0	2	2	-3	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	0	0
Dmitry Kulikov	23	0	1	1	2	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	25	0	0

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Standings:

MassMutual East	GP	W	L	OT	PTS	P%	RW	ROW	GF	GA	DIFF	HOME	AWAY	S/O	L10	STRK
1 NY Islanders	28	18	6	4	40	.714	17	17	83	62	+21	12-0-2	6-6-2	1-1	9-0-1	W8
2 Washington	27	17	6	4	38	.704	13	15	94	87	+7	8-3-2	9-3-2	2-2	8-1-1	W4
3 Pittsburgh	27	17	9	1	35	.648	10	14	89	79	+10	11-2-0	6-7-1	3-0	7-3-0	W5
4 Boston	25	14	7	4	32	.640	9	12	70	60	+10	7-3-1	7-4-3	2-2	4-4-2	L1
5 Philadelphia	25	13	9	3	29	.580	10	12	83	83	0	7-5-2	6-4-1	1-2	5-5-0	L2
6 NY Rangers	26	11	12	3	25	.481	9	10	72	71	+1	5-6-2	6-6-1	1-1	5-5-0	W1
7 New Jersey	24	8	13	3	19	.396	6	8	60	79	-19	2-10-1	6-3-2	0-2	2-7-1	L2
8 Buffalo	26	6	16	4	16	.308	4	4	58	88	-30	2-9-2	4-7-2	2-2	0-8-2	L2

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Last Game Lineups:

Islanders
LW	C	RW
KIEFFER BELLOWS Goals: 2 Assists: 0	MATHEW BARZAL Goals: 9 Assists: 15	JORDAN EBERLE Goals: 9 Assists: 9
ANTHONY BEAUVILLIER Goals: 2 Assists: 4	BROCK NELSON Goals: 11 Assists: 5	JOSH BAILEY Goals: 3 Assists: 11
MICHAEL DAL COLLE Goals: 0 Assists: 2	JEAN-GABRIEL PAGEAU Goals: 9 Assists: 8	OLIVER WAHLSTROM Goals: 5 Assists: 5
MATT MARTIN Goals: 5 Assists: 4	CASEY CIZIKAS Goals: 4 Assists: 7	CAL CLUTTERBUCK Goals: 3 Assists: 5

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DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS	Defense
ADAM PELECH Goals: 2 Assists: 6	RYAN PULOCK Goals: 0 Assists: 12
NICK LEDDY Goals: 1 Assists: 16	SCOTT MAYFIELD Goals: 2 Assists: 6
ANDY GREENE Goals: 0 Assists: 2	NOAH DOBSON Goals: 3 Assists: 9

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Current Team Injuries:
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Player	POS	Injury	Status (Updated)	Notes
Lee	LW	Lower Body	Out indefinitely (03/12/2021)	Lee is out of the lineup due to a lower-body injury, and he is without a definitive timetable for

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Devils
JANNE KUOKKANEN Goals: 4 Assists: 3	TRAVIS ZAJAC Goals: 2 Assists: 6	YEGOR SHARANGOVICH Goals: 3 Assists: 6
ANDREAS JOHNSSON Goals: 4 Assists: 0	JACK HUGHES Goals: 6 Assists: 10	JESPER BRATT Goals: 4 Assists: 6
JACK HUGHES Goals: 3 Assists: 4	TRAVIS ZAJAC Goals: 6 Assists 8	KYLE PALMIERI Goals: 1 Assists 9
MILES WOOD Goals: 8 Assists: 4	MICHAEL MCLEOD Goals: 3 Assists: 2	NATHAN BASTIAN Goals: 2 Assists: 4

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TY SMITH Goals: 2 Assists: 10	DAMON SEVERSON Goals: 2 Assists: 6
DMITRY KULIKOV Goals: 0 Assists: 1	P.K. SUBBAN Goals: 2 Assists: 9
RYAN MURRAY Goals: 0 Assists: 3	SAMI VATANEN Goals: 0 Assists: 2

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Current Team Injuries.

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Player	POS	Injury	Status (Updated)	Notes
Nico Hischier	C	Concussion	Out indefinitely (03/04/2021)	Hischier has been assigned to the injured reserve list due to a sinus fracture and a concussion. It is unclear how long he will be debilitated.

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[Nassau Revisited]

MDC hat trick incoming

 

[Big L]

I think they took away Varly’s assist on Wallys goal yesterday.



It’d be nice to get 2 points today.

 

[MichaelK]

Didn’t realize that Zacha was so good that he leads multiple teams in scoring!

 

[Big L]

Didn’t realize that Zacha was so good that he leads multiple teams in scoring!

Isles PK was 3-3 also

 

[Olliemets]

Law of averages had me accepting 4 points out of these 3 games.

Now, I’m greedy. Bank these 2 points today. Caps and Flyers coming up

 

[MJF]

Barry Trotz to Kieffer Bellows:

"Nice game rook, now do it again"

 

[Strummergas]

Let's Go!

 

[Strummergas]

Barry Trotz to Kieffer Bellows:

"Nice game rook, now do it again"

I worked last time!

 

[The Winter Soldier]

Barry Trotz to Kieffer Bellows:

"Nice game rook, now do it again"

That was the message I heard in Trotz's presser. It's up to Kieffer to take the ball(puck) and run with it. Not only for a game, but to sustain it. Don't rest on your laurels. It's a lesson even old farts like us need to learn.

 

[crashthenet]

Barry Trotz to Kieffer Bellows:

"Nice game rook, now do it again"

That drive to the net was all confidence. Maybe also recognizing that Bastian couldn't stop him but mostly confidence. Be interesting to see what he does today.

 

[19 in a row]

I know BT doesn't like to change things up after wins but given this is b2b games in under 24 hours would it be possible we see Aho or Hickey today? I realize sacrilege and no one wants to see our 7th D but I worry Greene will wear down. Also Sorokin in net but if we are going to give someone a break, today is the day. Schedule turns killer after today.

 

[PWJunior]

I know BT doesn't like to change things up after wins but given this is b2b games in under 24 hours would it be possible we see Aho or Hickey today? I realize sacrilege and no one wants to see our 7th D but I worry Greene will wear down. Also Sorokin in net but if we are going to give someone a break, today is the day. Schedule turns killer after today.

I don't think we'll ever see Hickey in an Isles jersey again, but I'm not opposed to giving Aho a game to give the old man a breather.

Don't think it'll happen though. Trotz probably doesn't let up now and wants to bank points. If we see Greene given "maintenance days', it'll be later in the season with a more clear picture of the playoff situation.

 

[SI90]

This pretty much confirms its serious

 

[13th Floor]

This pretty much confirms its serious

I'm not the best at this and someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but this means he's out at least 24 days right? It might mean making space for a trade, but it could also mean making space to promote people from the taxi squad and stay cap compliant.

 

[13th Floor]

Gonna miss the beginning of this one. Making a game time decision if I'll just miss the beginning and join live or watch on delay.

 

[MJF]

I'm not the best at this and someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but this means he's out at least 24 days right? It might mean making space for a trade, but it could also mean making space to promote people from the taxi squad and stay cap compliant.

Whatever move we make with the $7M being moved off the cap to LTIR, that $7M has to be cleared off when Lee returns to the active roster.

This move to LTIR makes me believe we won't see Lee until next season.

 

[SI90]

Whatever move we make with the $7M being moved off the cap to LTIR, that $7M has to be cleared off when Lee returns to the active roster.

This move to LTIR makes me believe we won't see Lee until next season.

this is my thoughts as well.

 

[13th Floor]

Whatever move we make with the $7M being moved off the cap to LTIR, that $7M has to be cleared off when Lee returns to the active roster.

This move to LTIR makes me believe we won't see Lee until next season.

Right. I think that makes sense. I was just questioning whether the other is a possibility -- I'm just not sure. For example, if we wanted to bring Ladd up (it hurt typing that), we would need to LTIR someone to get the cap space, right?

 

[PWJunior]

Whatever move we make with the $7M being moved off the cap to LTIR, that $7M has to be cleared off when Lee returns to the active roster.

This move to LTIR makes me believe we won't see Lee until next season.

Lee could return to the playoffs as the cap is essentially thrown out the door in the postseason.

 

[MJF]

Lee could return to the playoffs as the cap is essentially thrown out the door in the postseason.

I forgot about the post season cap:

 

[PWJunior]

I forgot about the post season cap:

Chicago did that with Kane a couple of years ago.

 

[NYI365]

Chicago did that with Kane a couple of years ago.

And Tampa is on track to do the same with Kucherov this year.

 

[The Winter Soldier]

Whatever move we make with the $7M being moved off the cap to LTIR, that $7M has to be cleared off when Lee returns to the active roster.

This move to LTIR makes me believe we won't see Lee until next season.

this is my thoughts as well.

Same here. The injury is not just a boo boo. It will require healing and rehab. To me this sounds like a knee, but just speculation on my part.

Lee could return to the playoffs as the cap is essentially thrown out the door in the postseason.

Yep, that's the best case scenario. But that's a tough spot if he returns there. Imagine being out for months and playing playoff hockey right out of practicing against TB. I think Bobby Orr would find that challenging.

All this will lead to speculation what Lou does before the TDL?

 

[Quickdraw2828]

need a better effort from Sorokin. he seemed lazy and over confident in the last game.