Post Game: Eatons OT Goal Leads Isles to 2-1 Victory over Sens!!

Tonight, our Isles defeated the Ottawa Senators by a score of 2-1 in overtime with the winner coming from the most unlikely of people. Here are some of my notes:

-How many of you were as shocked as I was when Mark Eaton at the hash mark spun around and backhanded one past Craig Anderson for the OT winner? I am willing to bet a fair number of you were. For it to happen in general is something to see but for it to happen in his 600th NHL game nonetheless is pretty cool. So congrats to him on his 600th game and getting the big goal for tonights Isles win. It was his first goal since a game early last season vs the Rangers. Also his first OT goal since a game against the Predators more then 10 years ago.

-PA continues to rack up the points! With his two assists tonight he reaches 47 points in 50 games so far this season. He is having a ridiculous year, and as his point total goes up so do the dollar signs. It will be quite interesting what the team decides to do with him.

-Nice job by Martin finishing off a great pass from PA to get the team on the board after the bad goal they gave up at the end of the second period.

-Chris Neil ran wild on his tonight, he seemed like he was hitting everything that moved!

-Nice seeing Konopka again, was it nice classic Konopka after he got called for the penalty on Rhett?

-Rhett had another pretty good game, although he did take a bad penalty late in the third.

Although the win in regulation would've been nice, a wins a win so I will take it. Now lets hope we can keep the streak going and reach the NHL's version of .500 tomorrow night. With the way that one stretch of the season went for us, reaching the .500 mark would be really good and a nice morale boost so to speak.

Next Game: Tomorrow Night @ Home VS Buffalo

Report: Brooklyn Making Agressive Sales Pitch To Isles/Wang!!

According to BD Gallof, Brooklyn is making an aggressive sales pitch to the Islanders and team owner Charles Wang to consider making Brooklyn the teams permanent home once the arena lease in Nassau expires in 2015. The report says that the preseason game is just a, "first step" in their attempt to lure the team to Brooklyn and give Wang a peek of what life would be like should he choose to take the team there.

BD said that according to an NHL source of his that the chances we end up in Brooklyn are "...actually pretty good."

I know that there are some out there who aren't BD's biggest fan for past things that hes done and therefore will scoff at this. However, with regard to arena issues and stuff of that nature usually BD is pretty good with it so I think there is something here.

The other day when asked about us playing the preseason game in Brooklyn Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano said that he hoped the teams experience in Brooklyn would affirm for them why they should remain in Nassau. Well, Mangano better hope that happens because if it goes off like I think it will then well it wont be good for Mr. Mangano. Following this over the next few months should be quite interesting!!

*If you would like to learn more you can check out BD's article on CBS or check out our facebook page which can be found on the side bar where we will post a link to his article*

Pre Game: Isles @ Ottawa!

Tonight, our New York Islanders travel to Ottawa to take on Jason Spezza and the Ottawa Senators.

Evgeni Nabakov will be in net for the Islanders tonight and the same lineup for Tuesday will be out for the netminder tonight.

It should be interesting to see how Tavares responds returning to Ottawa less then a week after being there for all stars.

Also, I feel like that if Rhett can play on a consistent basis like he did the other night, he might get a longer look then expected.

I read the other night that right now the Islanders are 13 points behind Ottawa but still have 4 games against them as well as 4 games at hand. So for those that still have faith we can make a run this season a win tonight would be vital to that cause.

Cizikas/Poulin named AHL Stars!!

If you missed it, the other day goalie Kevin Poulin and center Casey Cizikas were named AHL goalie of the month and #1 star of the month respectively.

This isn't much of a surprise for Poulin who if you remember had a shutout streak in the middle of the month that almost broke the franchises record only coming a few minutes short. He also didn't even play the hole month down in Bridgeport, as you know he played two games up here as well so that's just a testament to how well he played.

Also center Casey Cizikas who was the teams lone all star Representative replacing defenseman Calvin De Haan who is injured was named the first star of the month. Given his play was good enough to earn him the spot on the all star team as De Haans replacement, the fact that he was awarded this doesn't come as much surprise. He has been one of the more consistent as well as healthy Tigers players this season. Hopefully he is able to keep it up for them as they push to the playoffs.

Seeing stuff like this is always good, especially when the Islanders aren't in the best place in the standings. Having our young players get awarded things like this can give people hope for the future that we have some nice players on the way.

Tavares named NHL's #1 Star of January!

The NHL has named Islanders center John Tavares the number one star of the month of January.

Tavares who had 22 points in January had the most of anyone in the NHL. Noone will be surprised with this being awarded to him if you have seen him play recently.

Congrats to Tavares who is well deserving of this!!!